Reshuffle wrote:frank66665 wrote:
If it's not numbness, then I'm not sure what else physically would be caused by the implant. Arousal issues and other psychogenic causes of it not being pleasurable would be my only guess. I know some people have issues with 'connecting' with their implant and having it feel like it's a part of their body. It's a major change and how we feel about ourselves and the implant after surgery including feelings of regret or grief about what we used to have I think are more common then is often talked about.
Exactly. What he says about “connecting” with your new reality takes time. Many past threads on the forum members have reported that it takes some time for it to “become a part of me”. These early months are a time of adaptation. You’re weeks in, some of those authors report 6 months…a year…until it feels completely “normal”. Maybe you’re one of those people.
If you are wanting BJs to feel the same, now, at barely 12 weeks postop as they did before, you are inviting disappointment. I would caution you that since you have made several other posts about this “possibly being the worst decision of my life”, and “i wish i would not have done it”, you have already created neural pathways of negativity. That is, if your self talk is predisposed, as it seems to be, toward negativity…then that is exactly what you will experience.
Sometimes this is referred to as confirmation bias. Finding “the evidence of an already established assumption.
For me BJs are not at the same pleasure level as before my implant. Pleasurable now? Absolutely, but not at the same level. Want to know why i’m not freaked out over this?
Because, like you, i’m right at 3 months out. As i’ve reported, and another author above did, si STILL feel numbness in my scrotum and lower shaft. And i’m not worried because i know that nerves sometimes take months to return to normal sensation….and they WILL. I promise, if at 6 months this has not improved considerably, i will report that here for all go see, and you’ll be the first to know.
In the meantime, i’m enjoying the process of adaptation.