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My urologist labours this point intensively, so I just wanted to ask what the board consensus on this was? He says one of the prime reasons they have not offered an implant until very late on is that if you get an infection your erections are toast for life.

Whilst loss of size and potentially having to live with a malleable for a while don't sound great, I can't help thinking the apocalyptic talk is a bit overblown. Thoughts?

I'm going to see Dr Zacharakis in London soon and am just putting my mental ducks in a row.

Any implant practically guarantees you will never have a natural erection ever again. Corpus Cavernosum tissues are damaged or destroyed during insertion of the implant. No matter if there is infection or not.

There are, in the medical literature tissue sparing techniques that preserve some erectile function, but complete success is vanishinly rare. This is why implant is a last resort. There is no going back.

One Doctor of my acquaintance related this story to me. He treated a rather young and otherwise healthy patient by inserting an implant. The implant was successful. But four months later, Viagra was introduced to the world, which would have been a far superior solution for his patient.

This many years later, this still bothers the surgeon.

Lost Sheep

no, you can be rescued from the complication of infection.

Here is the sequence: Implant placed, but then infection 1 month later --- > treatment= remove the implant, and use IV antibiotics for couple months and have a malleable implant placed to keep penis from scaring down too much (with length loss). Several months later----> malleable implant removed and inflatable implant placed.

If the final inflatable implant stays sterile, then you should be good for ten years.

So, if you get infected, there is a rescue plan, but, you will likely lose an inch of length once all is said and done, and you will have faced three operations rather than just one, and also long term antibiotics.

In a nutshell, this worst case scenario which happens roughly one in a hundred, will not necessaruly mean sex life is over...but it does mean that you probably should have a "really solid reason" for choosing the nuclear option of implant.