Titan Implanted 10-15-2019 by Dr. Irwin Goldstein in San Diego California
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2020 6:12 pm
….and sorry it has taken so long to make this post. Once the decision had been made and “the dice had been thrown”, I felt like I wanted no more information or discussion until I healed. I wanted to wait before I jumped on here to give my accounting of the experience, for a number of reasons. Dr. Goldstein and his team were amazing !!! and he reached out to me everyday post-op to check in and answer questions . As far as surgery, So much of my experience was identical to what others have posted so I’ll start with information I have not seen which I feel could be helpful. My details are at the bottom of the post.
Background: Pills, Injections, Shock therapy, Blood Plasma Therapy, VED, Traction, Peyronies.
Frozen Vegetables: week1 was painful (like any big surgery recovery). I found frozen vegetables shoved down my pajama pants to be way better than ice packs or any other cooling strategies.
Bathroom: I hate to say it but I’d recommend relieving yourself in the bathtub. It’s virtually impossible to get situated on a toilet with a protruding penis and sore body. I was mopping the floor daily.
Week2 and Week3: I was still sitting around in my pajamas in some discomfort, but no worse incapacitation than a cold or mild illness. I got my 6 week post-op moved up to 4 weeks and had sex at that point. It was great not to have to sneak to the bathroom and mess with needles. I could not “in all honesty”, say I would have been comfortable going to any kind of job before week4. Pajamas, Frozen Peas and Netflix were my world for a month. (This question comes up a lot here, and I’ve seen people write of going out into the world on day3, and others speak of being still laid up in month2)
Results: the most profound thing I noticed when attempting to measure (and determine if I had retained my size) was that the orientation of everything had changed. The penis sits separate and above the testicals and before everything was more integrated. I have seen many pictures of erections that look like both my “before” and “after”, so I would simply say “it’s different”. I haven’t really lost any length, but I have sort of lost girth (from 6 inches down to 5 inches) however, the width is quite uniform and before the peronies gave me kind of an uneven width. If I fully inflate just for the sake of inflating, it has the look and feel of a big curtain rod (and the head looks unnaturally small and flaccid). If I inflate to 2/3 and have sexual arousal, the erection is completely indistinguishable from a normal erection for a man my age (and the head and width are very fleshed out).
Summary: I think this is a good solution when all other avenues have been explored and exhausted; however, it is not something to take lightly. At six months, it has become part of me (like my hair piece) and like I imagine breast implants are for women, but there are also times I am very aware that I have basically “a Piece of PVC pipe” in my pants. I had a lifestyle where I was having sex daily, and injecting way way to much trimix, so this was not to tough a decision (as the trimix eventually stopped working), but if my drive was such, that I had sex 5 to 10 times a month, I would have to say injections might make more sense. That’s just my opinion, and it’s coming from a man in his late 50’s. I also think the guys who immediately opt for the implant have a very valid position, in that they avoid all the craziness of all that other stuff I did….only to have me wind up with an implant in the end... I’ll try to get some pictures up here ASAP. I’d really like to find some “before” versions, if I can find some.
The anesthesia was general endotrachial.
The incision was transverse scrotal.
The device was 20 cm with 1 cm rear tip.
The reservoir was 125 ml and placed in the left space of Retzius.
The pump was the original Titan pump.
A compressive scrotal dressing was applied.
20 ml Exparel was utilized for post-op pain control
The Foley was left to straight drainage.
The patient was transferred to the recovery room in satisfactory condition.
Background: Pills, Injections, Shock therapy, Blood Plasma Therapy, VED, Traction, Peyronies.
Frozen Vegetables: week1 was painful (like any big surgery recovery). I found frozen vegetables shoved down my pajama pants to be way better than ice packs or any other cooling strategies.
Bathroom: I hate to say it but I’d recommend relieving yourself in the bathtub. It’s virtually impossible to get situated on a toilet with a protruding penis and sore body. I was mopping the floor daily.
Week2 and Week3: I was still sitting around in my pajamas in some discomfort, but no worse incapacitation than a cold or mild illness. I got my 6 week post-op moved up to 4 weeks and had sex at that point. It was great not to have to sneak to the bathroom and mess with needles. I could not “in all honesty”, say I would have been comfortable going to any kind of job before week4. Pajamas, Frozen Peas and Netflix were my world for a month. (This question comes up a lot here, and I’ve seen people write of going out into the world on day3, and others speak of being still laid up in month2)
Results: the most profound thing I noticed when attempting to measure (and determine if I had retained my size) was that the orientation of everything had changed. The penis sits separate and above the testicals and before everything was more integrated. I have seen many pictures of erections that look like both my “before” and “after”, so I would simply say “it’s different”. I haven’t really lost any length, but I have sort of lost girth (from 6 inches down to 5 inches) however, the width is quite uniform and before the peronies gave me kind of an uneven width. If I fully inflate just for the sake of inflating, it has the look and feel of a big curtain rod (and the head looks unnaturally small and flaccid). If I inflate to 2/3 and have sexual arousal, the erection is completely indistinguishable from a normal erection for a man my age (and the head and width are very fleshed out).
Summary: I think this is a good solution when all other avenues have been explored and exhausted; however, it is not something to take lightly. At six months, it has become part of me (like my hair piece) and like I imagine breast implants are for women, but there are also times I am very aware that I have basically “a Piece of PVC pipe” in my pants. I had a lifestyle where I was having sex daily, and injecting way way to much trimix, so this was not to tough a decision (as the trimix eventually stopped working), but if my drive was such, that I had sex 5 to 10 times a month, I would have to say injections might make more sense. That’s just my opinion, and it’s coming from a man in his late 50’s. I also think the guys who immediately opt for the implant have a very valid position, in that they avoid all the craziness of all that other stuff I did….only to have me wind up with an implant in the end... I’ll try to get some pictures up here ASAP. I’d really like to find some “before” versions, if I can find some.
The anesthesia was general endotrachial.
The incision was transverse scrotal.
The device was 20 cm with 1 cm rear tip.
The reservoir was 125 ml and placed in the left space of Retzius.
The pump was the original Titan pump.
A compressive scrotal dressing was applied.
20 ml Exparel was utilized for post-op pain control
The Foley was left to straight drainage.
The patient was transferred to the recovery room in satisfactory condition.
