LeRoastBeef wrote:Oldbeek, wow. I have to go, but when I'm back home I'm going to be googling this device. I never knew it existed.
I'm pre implant, with a small white glans, unless I use a cockring, which works well.
Am I understanding correctly, that this valve reduces the outflow rate of blood thus producing a fuller, red glans?
This is how rings work with me, I wonder if they would be willing to install such a device on guys that have soft glans.
It would be better than using a cock ring with an implant.
I understand that this is for incontinence?
Your Dr sounds like a hell of a man. In love with his job. I love folk like that.
LeRoastBeef, the AUS or Artificial Urinary Sphincter has a sole purpose of pinching off the urethra between the prostate or bladder and where it joins to the penis, to control the flow of urine when the natural sphincters are no longer working adequately.
What Oldbeek experienced may be isolated to his application or it may be common. It's possible that the AUS ring might have inadvertantly been placed not only around the urethra but also by happenchance around the leaky vein that kept the glans from filling. That makes sense and as long as the AUS is inflated, the vein would be clamped off too, along with the urethra. Deflating the AUS to pee would in this scenario, also release the blood outflow to the vein and might cause the glans to go soft while peeing (which really isn't a problem, right?)