Im angry and depressed as f*ck. Just had a consultation for the prosthesis.

[Baseballfan11]

Exactly, that is the point where I am going with that it is more complicated for a young man than an adult, young people require more empathy.

Well, that's funny actually. You saying that.
Because you are in your twenties and that is as old as you have ever been in your life. So far. That is all you know.
I am in my forties. I remember my twenties as if it was last week and my thirties as it was yesterday.

Don't what "old" is to you. This is me and my wife.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6010&start=680#p139281
Are we old?

Is this old men's sex?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8782&p=69223&hilit=tag+team#p69223

Anyway, funny it is you saying that things are more complicated for a young man than an adult, and that young people require more empathy.
I know all that you know about being in the twenties. Plus a lot about what comes next. By self experience.

Anyway, I have said on this forum a number of times that it is more complicated for a "young" dating man to be implanted than a 75 year old married for 40 years man.
But the difference between a 25 year old and a 45 year old is not huge. The similarities are larger. Dating is the key word. Age the secondary word.
If I would get divorced and start dating, I would find my implant a hell lot more troublesome than I do today.
As awkward as if I was 25?
Maybe.
If I was dating today, I would date women 30-45 I guess. And it is not like a woman at 35 goes home with a fit guy ten years older than her and expects him to have ED solved with an implant.
She wouldn't expect her lover to have ED anymore than a 20 year old girl would expect a 25 year old guy to have ED and an implant.
The difference lies rather in the social context a 20 year old and a 40 year old is operating in.
I was in University when I was 25. I was partying, socializing, dating and fucking within the same social network. If I was implanted at that age I would always have the anxiety that the girl I fucked would spread the nasty details to my whole social network. I would have become the freak everyone made jokes about.
That would be different at my current age. If I hooked up with a random woman in my home town, chances are she would not have any mutual friends with me. But even if she did, the word wouldn't spread like in campus.
The sex act itself would present just as much potential embarrassment though. Trust me.
The potential embarrassment issue is something I have discussed before. I would choose the offensive approach. Almost go for the pre-emptive strategy. Prevention is better than cure. If I was implanted in college, I would probably tell people. Unless I was going to live a life where nobody could find out of course. But if I was going to sleep around, particularly with girls in my closest social group, my "gang", then there is no frigging way that the news wouldn't get out. So instead then of being the poor little shy, embarrassed, sorry ass who tried to hide his plastic dick but failed - I would be the super lover who fucked girls left and right for hours with his robocop dick. I would be open and tell my friends before they found out. Even tell my female friends before they found out. Just give them some macho story about downhill skiing, motorcycles, wakeboarding, fighting for my life against two muggers, or whatever. And getting my dick smashed and ending up with a venous leak. Now fixed with an enhancement making me the super lover my friends could only dream about and my girlfriends getting curious about.
Easier said than done, but I am 100% sure this would be better.
Getting asked then by some random guy if "you are the guy with the plastic dick", I would rather stand tall and say "Yes, that's me. So you heard about that huh? Yeah, I had this bad down hill skiing accident and crashed so bad. Things had to get fixed. I am actually happy about it, the things I can do to a girl in bed now is something a natural dick could never even get close to. At first I thought it sucked, but now it's actually kind of cool to fuck girls to 5 orgasms and keep going all night long. Take care man."
You get my point. Not being the victim.

But to say you deserve more sympathy... I have had ED since I was a teenager, and have lived through exactly what you guys do, only for so much longer time than you. So I am not exactly having the feeling you deserve more sympathy or fragile treatment than others on here, including myself. Whatever story we have, someone else will always have suffered worse shit. So there is not much meaning in feeling sorry for oneself and expecting others to feel more sorry for me than for others. Everyone on here has suffered. A lot of the older guys you think are not that bad off have had multiple other crap happening to them. They have had cancer and other life-threatening shit happening to them.
So be a bit careful about bringing up the subject of who deserves more empathy.
This site is full of poor bastards who has suffered tremendously.

But, to round this off, none of this shit matters. It doesn't matter who has suffered more.
It doesn't matter what age you are.
The bottom line is still that any man being struck by ED can choose to stay with what he has, which will likely get worse, or do something.
The only thing there really is to do, except for pills and injections, is to get an implant.
No matter how sorry everybody should feel for a young guy, the reality is that he has to choose.
Keep what you have and enhance it with pills and injections.
Or get implanted.
We all know that sucks. It sucked for me too. Fuck damn it, it sucked. It sucked so bad.
But self-pity never got anyone anywhere in this world.

I am just trying to say it as it is.
It sucks to get ED.
It sucks to have an implant compared to having a big nice natural dick.
It sucks to be 22, 28, 35, 45, 52 or whatever fucking age and being caught by the woman you're about to fuck with plastic tubes in your dick and a plastic bulb in your scrotum.
But no matter how bad it sucks, that is what happened to us.
And now the ball is in your court.
Which play do you call?
Defence or offense?

I’ll hop back in. I agree with you that the decision lies on the guy with ED... BUT that decision would be made a lot easier by an independent man in his 50’s, 60’s, etc than a college student who would feel a burden to his parents asking them to help cough up 20 grand to fix their broken penis (which still probably doesn’t even seem legitimate to the parents of an otherwise healthy and normal young man). There’s no use arguing over pity, but I feel that a lot more factors are at play for a young man. The financial dependence being a huge one, as well as more hurdles to jump over with urologists who want to insist it’s all in your head, just be more confident.

[Nadie123]

Exactly, that is the point where I am going with that it is more complicated for a young man than an adult, young people require more empathy.

Well, that's funny actually. You saying that.
Because you are in your twenties and that is as old as you have ever been in your life. So far. That is all you know.
I am in my forties. I remember my twenties as if it was last week and my thirties as it was yesterday.

Don't what "old" is to you. This is me and my wife.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6010&start=680#p139281
Are we old?

Is this old men's sex?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8782&p=69223&hilit=tag+team#p69223

Anyway, funny it is you saying that things are more complicated for a young man than an adult, and that young people require more empathy.
I know all that you know about being in the twenties. Plus a lot about what comes next. By self experience.

Anyway, I have said on this forum a number of times that it is more complicated for a "young" dating man to be implanted than a 75 year old married for 40 years man.
But the difference between a 25 year old and a 45 year old is not huge. The similarities are larger. Dating is the key word. Age the secondary word.
If I would get divorced and start dating, I would find my implant a hell lot more troublesome than I do today.
As awkward as if I was 25?
Maybe.
If I was dating today, I would date women 30-45 I guess. And it is not like a woman at 35 goes home with a fit guy ten years older than her and expects him to have ED solved with an implant.
She wouldn't expect her lover to have ED anymore than a 20 year old girl would expect a 25 year old guy to have ED and an implant.
The difference lies rather in the social context a 20 year old and a 40 year old is operating in.
I was in University when I was 25. I was partying, socializing, dating and fucking within the same social network. If I was implanted at that age I would always have the anxiety that the girl I fucked would spread the nasty details to my whole social network. I would have become the freak everyone made jokes about.
That would be different at my current age. If I hooked up with a random woman in my home town, chances are she would not have any mutual friends with me. But even if she did, the word wouldn't spread like in campus.
The sex act itself would present just as much potential embarrassment though. Trust me.
The potential embarrassment issue is something I have discussed before. I would choose the offensive approach. Almost go for the pre-emptive strategy. Prevention is better than cure. If I was implanted in college, I would probably tell people. Unless I was going to live a life where nobody could find out of course. But if I was going to sleep around, particularly with girls in my closest social group, my "gang", then there is no frigging way that the news wouldn't get out. So instead then of being the poor little shy, embarrassed, sorry ass who tried to hide his plastic dick but failed - I would be the super lover who fucked girls left and right for hours with his robocop dick. I would be open and tell my friends before they found out. Even tell my female friends before they found out. Just give them some macho story about downhill skiing, motorcycles, wakeboarding, fighting for my life against two muggers, or whatever. And getting my dick smashed and ending up with a venous leak. Now fixed with an enhancement making me the super lover my friends could only dream about and my girlfriends getting curious about.
Easier said than done, but I am 100% sure this would be better.
Getting asked then by some random guy if "you are the guy with the plastic dick", I would rather stand tall and say "Yes, that's me. So you heard about that huh? Yeah, I had this bad down hill skiing accident and crashed so bad. Things had to get fixed. I am actually happy about it, the things I can do to a girl in bed now is something a natural dick could never even get close to. At first I thought it sucked, but now it's actually kind of cool to fuck girls to 5 orgasms and keep going all night long. Take care man."
You get my point. Not being the victim.

But to say you deserve more sympathy... I have had ED since I was a teenager, and have lived through exactly what you guys do, only for so much longer time than you. So I am not exactly having the feeling you deserve more sympathy or fragile treatment than others on here, including myself. Whatever story we have, someone else will always have suffered worse shit. So there is not much meaning in feeling sorry for oneself and expecting others to feel more sorry for me than for others. Everyone on here has suffered. A lot of the older guys you think are not that bad off have had multiple other crap happening to them. They have had cancer and other life-threatening shit happening to them.
So be a bit careful about bringing up the subject of who deserves more empathy.
This site is full of poor bastards who has suffered tremendously.

But, to round this off, none of this shit matters. It doesn't matter who has suffered more.
It doesn't matter what age you are.
The bottom line is still that any man being struck by ED can choose to stay with what he has, which will likely get worse, or do something.
The only thing there really is to do, except for pills and injections, is to get an implant.
No matter how sorry everybody should feel for a young guy, the reality is that he has to choose.
Keep what you have and enhance it with pills and injections.
Or get implanted.
We all know that sucks. It sucked for me too. Fuck damn it, it sucked. It sucked so bad.
But self-pity never got anyone anywhere in this world.

I am just trying to say it as it is.
It sucks to get ED.
It sucks to have an implant compared to having a big nice natural dick.
It sucks to be 22, 28, 35, 45, 52 or whatever fucking age and being caught by the woman you're about to fuck with plastic tubes in your dick and a plastic bulb in your scrotum.
But no matter how bad it sucks, that is what happened to us.
And now the ball is in your court.
Which play do you call?
Defence or offense?

the only thing I saw of your answer was the photo and yes .. you have a cuckold face

[merrix]

Exactly, that is the point where I am going with that it is more complicated for a young man than an adult, young people require more empathy.

Well, that's funny actually. You saying that.
Because you are in your twenties and that is as old as you have ever been in your life. So far. That is all you know.
I am in my forties. I remember my twenties as if it was last week and my thirties as it was yesterday.

Don't what "old" is to you. This is me and my wife.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6010&start=680#p139281
Are we old?

Is this old men's sex?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8782&p=69223&hilit=tag+team#p69223

Anyway, funny it is you saying that things are more complicated for a young man than an adult, and that young people require more empathy.
I know all that you know about being in the twenties. Plus a lot about what comes next. By self experience.

Anyway, I have said on this forum a number of times that it is more complicated for a "young" dating man to be implanted than a 75 year old married for 40 years man.
But the difference between a 25 year old and a 45 year old is not huge. The similarities are larger. Dating is the key word. Age the secondary word.
If I would get divorced and start dating, I would find my implant a hell lot more troublesome than I do today.
As awkward as if I was 25?
Maybe.
If I was dating today, I would date women 30-45 I guess. And it is not like a woman at 35 goes home with a fit guy ten years older than her and expects him to have ED solved with an implant.
She wouldn't expect her lover to have ED anymore than a 20 year old girl would expect a 25 year old guy to have ED and an implant.
The difference lies rather in the social context a 20 year old and a 40 year old is operating in.
I was in University when I was 25. I was partying, socializing, dating and fucking within the same social network. If I was implanted at that age I would always have the anxiety that the girl I fucked would spread the nasty details to my whole social network. I would have become the freak everyone made jokes about.
That would be different at my current age. If I hooked up with a random woman in my home town, chances are she would not have any mutual friends with me. But even if she did, the word wouldn't spread like in campus.
The sex act itself would present just as much potential embarrassment though. Trust me.
The potential embarrassment issue is something I have discussed before. I would choose the offensive approach. Almost go for the pre-emptive strategy. Prevention is better than cure. If I was implanted in college, I would probably tell people. Unless I was going to live a life where nobody could find out of course. But if I was going to sleep around, particularly with girls in my closest social group, my "gang", then there is no frigging way that the news wouldn't get out. So instead then of being the poor little shy, embarrassed, sorry ass who tried to hide his plastic dick but failed - I would be the super lover who fucked girls left and right for hours with his robocop dick. I would be open and tell my friends before they found out. Even tell my female friends before they found out. Just give them some macho story about downhill skiing, motorcycles, wakeboarding, fighting for my life against two muggers, or whatever. And getting my dick smashed and ending up with a venous leak. Now fixed with an enhancement making me the super lover my friends could only dream about and my girlfriends getting curious about.
Easier said than done, but I am 100% sure this would be better.
Getting asked then by some random guy if "you are the guy with the plastic dick", I would rather stand tall and say "Yes, that's me. So you heard about that huh? Yeah, I had this bad down hill skiing accident and crashed so bad. Things had to get fixed. I am actually happy about it, the things I can do to a girl in bed now is something a natural dick could never even get close to. At first I thought it sucked, but now it's actually kind of cool to fuck girls to 5 orgasms and keep going all night long. Take care man."
You get my point. Not being the victim.

But to say you deserve more sympathy... I have had ED since I was a teenager, and have lived through exactly what you guys do, only for so much longer time than you. So I am not exactly having the feeling you deserve more sympathy or fragile treatment than others on here, including myself. Whatever story we have, someone else will always have suffered worse shit. So there is not much meaning in feeling sorry for oneself and expecting others to feel more sorry for me than for others. Everyone on here has suffered. A lot of the older guys you think are not that bad off have had multiple other crap happening to them. They have had cancer and other life-threatening shit happening to them.
So be a bit careful about bringing up the subject of who deserves more empathy.
This site is full of poor bastards who has suffered tremendously.

But, to round this off, none of this shit matters. It doesn't matter who has suffered more.
It doesn't matter what age you are.
The bottom line is still that any man being struck by ED can choose to stay with what he has, which will likely get worse, or do something.
The only thing there really is to do, except for pills and injections, is to get an implant.
No matter how sorry everybody should feel for a young guy, the reality is that he has to choose.
Keep what you have and enhance it with pills and injections.
Or get implanted.
We all know that sucks. It sucked for me too. Fuck damn it, it sucked. It sucked so bad.
But self-pity never got anyone anywhere in this world.

I am just trying to say it as it is.
It sucks to get ED.
It sucks to have an implant compared to having a big nice natural dick.
It sucks to be 22, 28, 35, 45, 52 or whatever fucking age and being caught by the woman you're about to fuck with plastic tubes in your dick and a plastic bulb in your scrotum.
But no matter how bad it sucks, that is what happened to us.
And now the ball is in your court.
Which play do you call?
Defence or offense?

I’ll hop back in. I agree with you that the decision lies on the guy with ED... BUT that decision would be made a lot easier by an independent man in his 50’s, 60’s, etc than a college student who would feel a burden to his parents asking them to help cough up 20 grand to fix their broken penis (which still probably doesn’t even seem legitimate to the parents of an otherwise healthy and normal young man). There’s no use arguing over pity, but I feel that a lot more factors are at play for a young man. The financial dependence being a huge one, as well as more hurdles to jump over with urologists who want to insist it’s all in your head, just be more confident.

Yep. Correct.
The finance part of it sucks if you are young in the US.
Too bad the crap health care system over there puts you in that situation. Over where I am from it would cost 25 USD (yes 25, not 25,000) to get an implant if you really needed one. No joke.
But back to the main discussion.
Does that sorry-feeling mean a long limp dick is better than a 2 cm shorter working dick?
Does being young make the long limp dick any better than a long limp dick would be for a 60 years old?
Is implant as an option any worse compared to the alternative for a young guy than an old guy?
If you think ED is worse when being young, that probably just speaks even more in favor of implants for a young guy. Not against it.

if you sit in a wheelchair and dream of the old days when you could run and jump, would you say no to a surgery which at least could make you walk again just because it wouldn't restore your jumping ability?
And would the surgery be a worse option the younger you were?
No. The wheelchair would be worse for anybody.
Everybody, no matter age, would be better off with the walking-restoring surgery than the wheelchair.

[Baseballfan11]

Well, that's funny actually. You saying that.
Because you are in your twenties and that is as old as you have ever been in your life. So far. That is all you know.
I am in my forties. I remember my twenties as if it was last week and my thirties as it was yesterday.

Don't what "old" is to you. This is me and my wife.
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6010&start=680#p139281
Are we old?

Is this old men's sex?
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=8782&p=69223&hilit=tag+team#p69223

Anyway, funny it is you saying that things are more complicated for a young man than an adult, and that young people require more empathy.
I know all that you know about being in the twenties. Plus a lot about what comes next. By self experience.

Anyway, I have said on this forum a number of times that it is more complicated for a "young" dating man to be implanted than a 75 year old married for 40 years man.
But the difference between a 25 year old and a 45 year old is not huge. The similarities are larger. Dating is the key word. Age the secondary word.
If I would get divorced and start dating, I would find my implant a hell lot more troublesome than I do today.
As awkward as if I was 25?
Maybe.
If I was dating today, I would date women 30-45 I guess. And it is not like a woman at 35 goes home with a fit guy ten years older than her and expects him to have ED solved with an implant.
She wouldn't expect her lover to have ED anymore than a 20 year old girl would expect a 25 year old guy to have ED and an implant.
The difference lies rather in the social context a 20 year old and a 40 year old is operating in.
I was in University when I was 25. I was partying, socializing, dating and fucking within the same social network. If I was implanted at that age I would always have the anxiety that the girl I fucked would spread the nasty details to my whole social network. I would have become the freak everyone made jokes about.
That would be different at my current age. If I hooked up with a random woman in my home town, chances are she would not have any mutual friends with me. But even if she did, the word wouldn't spread like in campus.
The sex act itself would present just as much potential embarrassment though. Trust me.
The potential embarrassment issue is something I have discussed before. I would choose the offensive approach. Almost go for the pre-emptive strategy. Prevention is better than cure. If I was implanted in college, I would probably tell people. Unless I was going to live a life where nobody could find out of course. But if I was going to sleep around, particularly with girls in my closest social group, my "gang", then there is no frigging way that the news wouldn't get out. So instead then of being the poor little shy, embarrassed, sorry ass who tried to hide his plastic dick but failed - I would be the super lover who fucked girls left and right for hours with his robocop dick. I would be open and tell my friends before they found out. Even tell my female friends before they found out. Just give them some macho story about downhill skiing, motorcycles, wakeboarding, fighting for my life against two muggers, or whatever. And getting my dick smashed and ending up with a venous leak. Now fixed with an enhancement making me the super lover my friends could only dream about and my girlfriends getting curious about.
Easier said than done, but I am 100% sure this would be better.
Getting asked then by some random guy if "you are the guy with the plastic dick", I would rather stand tall and say "Yes, that's me. So you heard about that huh? Yeah, I had this bad down hill skiing accident and crashed so bad. Things had to get fixed. I am actually happy about it, the things I can do to a girl in bed now is something a natural dick could never even get close to. At first I thought it sucked, but now it's actually kind of cool to fuck girls to 5 orgasms and keep going all night long. Take care man."
You get my point. Not being the victim.

But to say you deserve more sympathy... I have had ED since I was a teenager, and have lived through exactly what you guys do, only for so much longer time than you. So I am not exactly having the feeling you deserve more sympathy or fragile treatment than others on here, including myself. Whatever story we have, someone else will always have suffered worse shit. So there is not much meaning in feeling sorry for oneself and expecting others to feel more sorry for me than for others. Everyone on here has suffered. A lot of the older guys you think are not that bad off have had multiple other crap happening to them. They have had cancer and other life-threatening shit happening to them.
So be a bit careful about bringing up the subject of who deserves more empathy.
This site is full of poor bastards who has suffered tremendously.

But, to round this off, none of this shit matters. It doesn't matter who has suffered more.
It doesn't matter what age you are.
The bottom line is still that any man being struck by ED can choose to stay with what he has, which will likely get worse, or do something.
The only thing there really is to do, except for pills and injections, is to get an implant.
No matter how sorry everybody should feel for a young guy, the reality is that he has to choose.
Keep what you have and enhance it with pills and injections.
Or get implanted.
We all know that sucks. It sucked for me too. Fuck damn it, it sucked. It sucked so bad.
But self-pity never got anyone anywhere in this world.

I am just trying to say it as it is.
It sucks to get ED.
It sucks to have an implant compared to having a big nice natural dick.
It sucks to be 22, 28, 35, 45, 52 or whatever fucking age and being caught by the woman you're about to fuck with plastic tubes in your dick and a plastic bulb in your scrotum.
But no matter how bad it sucks, that is what happened to us.
And now the ball is in your court.
Which play do you call?
Defence or offense?

I’ll hop back in. I agree with you that the decision lies on the guy with ED... BUT that decision would be made a lot easier by an independent man in his 50’s, 60’s, etc than a college student who would feel a burden to his parents asking them to help cough up 20 grand to fix their broken penis (which still probably doesn’t even seem legitimate to the parents of an otherwise healthy and normal young man). There’s no use arguing over pity, but I feel that a lot more factors are at play for a young man. The financial dependence being a huge one, as well as more hurdles to jump over with urologists who want to insist it’s all in your head, just be more confident.

Yep. Correct.
The finance part of it sucks if you are young in the US.
Too bad the crap health care system over there puts you in that situation. Over where I am from it would cost 25 USD (yes 25, not 25,000) to get an implant if you really needed one. No joke.
But back to the main discussion.
Does that sorry-feeling mean a long limp dick is better than a 2 cm shorter working dick?
Does being young make the long limp dick any better than a long limp dick would be for a 60 years old?
Is implant as an option any worse compared to the alternative for a young guy than an old guy?
If you think ED is worse when being young, that probably just speaks even more in favor of implants for a young guy. Not against it.

if you sit in a wheelchair and dream of the old days when you could run and jump, would you say no to a surgery which at least could make you walk again just because it wouldn't restore your jumping ability?
And would the surgery be a worse option the younger you were?
No. The wheelchair would be worse for anybody.
Everybody, no matter age, would be better off with the walking-restoring surgery than the wheelchair.

Yes, I agree. I don’t expect my condition to just reverse itself. I haven’t even had the motivation to try NoFap again. I’m a Canadian citizen as well- do you think maybe having surgery done in Canada could help to bypass the enormous cost? Thanks Merrix

[Gt1956]

Baseballfan11, sorry for my wall of text post yesterday. It was an attempt to show social burdens in your youth. Since I'm sure ed did exist in my youth. There wasn't ant treatments so I'm guessing that it was just something you had to suffer with. The stigma of buying condoms was the closest comparison I could think of.
Since this thread has strayed from the original topic. You have let out a few clues that with your consideration I might be able to offer some avenues to persue.
First, your age. You should still be covered under your parents health insurance in the USA. That might relieve the finacial burden of an implant. Even if the co-pay is high it beats the full cost.
Second, Canadian citizenship. From what I've read here on FT. It seems that treatment varies by province. The good thing is you might be able to learn which one covers the best by online research. Coverage might require that you live in that province but as a citizen that might be easy to do.
So the old guy advice to the young guy. Think these points over. Don't delay much because the cutoff for Americans being on their parents policy is 26. I would suggest that it might take 2 years to navigate the entire proccess.
If this strikes your interest, then get on it. Its two options that might work out for you. Good luck.

[Baseballfan11]

Baseballfan11, sorry for my wall of text post yesterday. It was an attempt to show social burdens in your youth. Since I'm sure ed did exist in my youth. There wasn't ant treatments so I'm guessing that it was just something you had to suffer with. The stigma of buying condoms was the closest comparison I could think of.
Since this thread has strayed from the original topic. You have let out a few clues that with your consideration I might be able to offer some avenues to persue.
First, your age. You should still be covered under your parents health insurance in the USA. That might relieve the finacial burden of an implant. Even if the co-pay is high it beats the full cost.
Second, Canadian citizenship. From what I've read here on FT. It seems that treatment varies by province. The good thing is you might be able to learn which one covers the best by online research. Coverage might require that you live in that province but as a citizen that might be easy to do.
So the old guy advice to the young guy. Think these points over. Don't delay much because the cutoff for Americans being on their parents policy is 26. I would suggest that it might take 2 years to navigate the entire proccess.
If this strikes your interest, then get on it. Its two options that might work out for you. Good luck.

Thank you very much. I appreciate the information, apologies for hijacking this thread as well. Very good point on the insurance. Practically, I feel like I’ll need to maintain funds for my entire life relegated to the treatment of ED

[Gt1956]

Baseballfan11, sorry for my wall of text post yesterday. It was an attempt to show social burdens in your youth. Since I'm sure ed did exist in my youth. There wasn't ant treatments so I'm guessing that it was just something you had to suffer with. The stigma of buying condoms was the closest comparison I could think of.
Since this thread has strayed from the original topic. You have let out a few clues that with your consideration I might be able to offer some avenues to persue.
First, your age. You should still be covered under your parents health insurance in the USA. That might relieve the finacial burden of an implant. Even if the co-pay is high it beats the full cost.
Second, Canadian citizenship. From what I've read here on FT. It seems that treatment varies by province. The good thing is you might be able to learn which one covers the best by online research. Coverage might require that you live in that province but as a citizen that might be easy to do.
So the old guy advice to the young guy. Think these points over. Don't delay much because the cutoff for Americans being on their parents policy is 26. I would suggest that it might take 2 years to navigate the entire proccess.
If this strikes your interest, then get on it. Its two options that might work out for you. Good luck.

Thank you very much. I appreciate the information, apologies for hijacking this thread as well. Very good point on the insurance. Practically, I feel like I’ll need to maintain funds for my entire life relegated to the treatment of ED

Sorry, more old guy musings. You're right on the cost to maintain a working IPP. I won't dispute that for a minute. But lets look at some other costs in life that we don't give a second thought to.
Teeth, regular exams, cleanings, crowns, rootcanals.
Car insurance. I have never made or had a claim against me. Over my lifetime I've paid a lot for the policy.
Glasses, an exam, new frames & lenses every few years.
You can see where this is going. It is only a lot of money because you're looking at it, perhaps thru a young perspective.
Ok, so lets not pay for pills, shots or an implant. That is the other option. I'm betting that you're on FT because you don't like a celibate lifestyle........forever.
Relating back to my earlier post. Modern medicine has brought us good treatments for ED. I.E. pills, shots & implants. Are the a cure....no. Are the a perfect treatment....no. But until there is a better option, they sure seem to me to be the only options.
I think it was in this thread where someone asked why I do'nt have an implant yet. I laid out my timeline & reasons for delaying along with some missed opportunities & just plain bad luck. My advice to you. Especially since in my opinion you have at least 2 decent avenues to pursue. Is per my experience. Getting an implant takes time. Maybe a lot of time. You might need to wait a full year if your parents need to or want to trade insurance companies.
In your particular situation, it might be in your favor getting treatment in your early 20's instead of being in the 30's when ED strikes.
Oh, btw, your last sentence show age related wisdom. You're learning fast. Congratulations.
Wording about age corrected.

[Baseballfan11]

Baseballfan11, sorry for my wall of text post yesterday. It was an attempt to show social burdens in your youth. Since I'm sure ed did exist in my youth. There wasn't ant treatments so I'm guessing that it was just something you had to suffer with. The stigma of buying condoms was the closest comparison I could think of.
Since this thread has strayed from the original topic. You have let out a few clues that with your consideration I might be able to offer some avenues to persue.
First, your age. You should still be covered under your parents health insurance in the USA. That might relieve the finacial burden of an implant. Even if the co-pay is high it beats the full cost.
Second, Canadian citizenship. From what I've read here on FT. It seems that treatment varies by province. The good thing is you might be able to learn which one covers the best by online research. Coverage might require that you live in that province but as a citizen that might be easy to do.
So the old guy advice to the young guy. Think these points over. Don't delay much because the cutoff for Americans being on their parents policy is 26. I would suggest that it might take 2 years to navigate the entire proccess.
If this strikes your interest, then get on it. Its two options that might work out for you. Good luck.

Thank you very much. I appreciate the information, apologies for hijacking this thread as well. Very good point on the insurance. Practically, I feel like I’ll need to maintain funds for my entire life relegated to the treatment of ED

Sorry, more old guy musings. You're right on the cost to maintain a working IPP. I won't dispute that for a minute. But lets look at some other costs in life that we don't give a second thought to.
Teeth, regular exams, cleanings, crowns, rootcanals.
Car insurance. I have never made or had a claim against me. Over my lifetime I've paid a lot for the policy.
Glasses, an exam, new frames & lenses every few years.
You can see where this is going. It is only a lot of money because you're looking at it, perhaps thru a young perspective.
Ok, so lets not pay for pills, shots or an implant. That is the other option. I'm betting that you're on FT because you don't like a celibate lifestyle........forever.
Relating back to my earlier post. Modern medicine has brought us good treatments for ED. I.E. pills, shots & implants. Are the a cure....no. Are the a perfect treatment....no. But until there is a better option, they sure seem to me to be the only options.
I think it was in this thread where someone asked why I do'nt have an implant yet. I laid out my timeline & reasons for delaying along with some missed opportunities & just plain bad luck. My advice to you. Especially since in my opinion you have at least 2 decent avenues to pursue. Is per my experience. Getting an implant takes time. Maybe a lot of time. You might need to wait a full year if your parents need to or want to trade insurance companies.
In your particular situation, it might be in your favor getting treatment in your early 20's being in the 30's when ED strikes.
Oh, btw, your last sentence show age related wisdom. You're learning fast. Congratulations.

Thanks GT, for your well thought out message. I have to say I am confused by your last part. What did you mean 30’s when ED strikes? I am already having the issues in my 20’s. I’ve been hesitant to bring up the issues again to my parents until I really give a solid NoFap/no porn attempt for a few months. I had done it before without a whole lot of success but I figure that will be what proves the issue is physical. Even with porn, I have to manually touch myself to even get something that resembles a hard on (never once had that throbbing hard blood flow feeling as when I was 9 or 10).

[Gt1956]

Sorry, left out a key word, "instead". I was meaning that your parents insurance would not be an option if you were older than 26.
Sounds like you've had talks with your parents. How badly did that go? Suggestion, you might want to casually & gently point out to your mother that if you can't get this fixed. It will be highly unlikely that you'll ever produce grandchildren. There is a chance that she hasn't thought that possibility all the way through. Even if she comes back with artificial insemination. You should point out that just one attempt would pay for your initial implant.
Please be careful. Some of this might take some time to sink in. But from my point of view, this is a legitimate point to make.
Just trying to give you some talking points to use. Again, just my geezer opinion. Getting your mother on your side will be important to your potential outcome.
Now go make your point when you feel the time is right. Timing might be important. Hint, mothers day is just a few months away. Good luck.

[Txagq8]

Baseball fan: just noticed in your signature block you’re in Texas. What part? BTW if I remember correctly the doc in Austin who did mine has a reasonably decent cash price for folks with insurance problems. He isn’t high volume Eid or Kramer but he does 2 or 3 a week for last 8 years or so thus he probably knows what he is doing.

Gt: strangely enough I’m a ‘56 model also. Turn 65 next month so its Medicare time. My supplemental covers implants. So revisions will be no out of pocket. Getting old may suck but not totally.