My Blog about my 4-9-13 Implant

[GaryRN]

My blog is
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victoryovererectiledysfunction.blogspot.com

Thanks, Gary

[Bxguy1]

Sounds great Gary . I look foward to reading it !

[Techman52]

Your blog is marked as "Private" and NO viewing is allowed

BR/
Larry

[GaryRN]

It has a question at the front , just check enter.
This is not a private blog. I will check it out. Thanks, Gary

[Bxguy1]

Hi Gary...
I saw your picture on the blog you posted..that is extreme swelling!! I hope it has gone down and is getting better..when you came home did you prop your body on a decline? Where your implant was higher than your heart to keep blood flow to that area at a minimum? I raised the foot end of my mattress about 10 or 15 degrees and I think that was a great help for me and kept my swelling down to a minimum.. also frequent ice bag applications...just curious, did you do these things?

Best wishes for a speedy recovey!

[GaryRN]

BX Guy,

I did everything right. When I was in bed, I laid my hips on a pillow to elevate my scrotum above the heart, I used ice 2-3 times a day, and took motrin. The extremem swelling was the morning after surgery. The more time I stayed flat with my hips elevated the better I was. I also rolled up a face towel and put that under my scrotum to support that. I had to sleep on my back for 3 weeks. It took 3 weeks to get the swelling down to somewhat normal. I called the surgeon, and she returned my call and said that grapefruit size swelling was normal. Then I saw the surgeon who did the cutting for 3 minutes 2 days later, and he saw the edema and said that was normal. I do no think what happened to me was "normal".
Thanks, Gary

[Dave92014]

I am an engineer and have no formal medical training. But from what I have read on FT over the last few months, it seems that there is a wide variation in how men's bodies recover from the implant surgery. A very few are ready for sex after only two or three weeks. And some are not healed enough to be ready for sex until 10 or 12 weeks. So the "normal" recover is actually a bell shaped curve such that many are ready for sex after 4 to 6 weeks but some take longer than that and some take less time. So when your doc said your are "normal" that doesn't mean that many people will experience similar recoveries to you. It only means that you are somewhere on the "normal" curve. I would guess that as long as you don't have an infection and will recover to be able to use your implant for sex within some reasonable amount of time, say 4 or 5 months, the doc will consider it "normal".

Also, there is another factor in declaring your recovery "normal". That is the threat of a malpractice lawsuit. If your doc said your recovery was not normal, you might go find an attorney and press a malpractice lawsuit. So your doc is highly biased to convince you that your recovery is normal. Plus if you were seen by another doc to see if he would declare you "not-normal", that doc would be biased to also declare you normal. I say that because if he delared you "not normal", you might go find an attorney to press a malpractice lawsuit. If you did that, the doc who declared you "not normal" would be called to testify, which would take time out of his normal medical practice. Plus that would get him disliked by the brotherhood of docs, which could cause him various problems.

I think there is a basic problem that most of us who are not medically trained expect surgery to be like repairing a car. When you repair a car, the mechanic fixes it and you drive it away immediately. It seems that when the doc fixes a body, there is a recovery period, which varies by person so you need to be prepared to accept whatever time your body takes to get back to full functioning.

Dave