SearchingUSA wrote:Sakabato wrote:SearchingUSA wrote:Hey Sakabato, most of what you wrote applied to me as well. I did the implant with Dr. Clavell earlier this year and I'm super happy with the outcome. I recommend him without a doubt, and the friendly vibe carries through surgery and beyond. I wish I had found the success stories on franktalk when I was your age and looking into implants.
Nice to see Dr. Clavell has good reviews in this forum. Any advice before i go in? You lost any size?
Immediately after surgery I lost ~2cm length from pre-surgery size. I made it all back within a few months and I've even seen some growth beyond my pre-surgical size. But, don't go into the surgery expecting to increase your size, and definitely don't tell a surgeon that you're expecting it to increase your size, because most patients don't and surgeons do not want to do surgery on someone with expectations they can't guarantee.
Two pieces of advice:
1) if you have scrotal webbing (turkey-neck skin from the scrotum that runs along the shaft), mention it to Dr. Clavell and ask him about taking care of it during the surgery. It's an extremely minor cosmetic fix, but if you have webbing, this will make your shaft look more 'streamlined' and increase the visual size. He did it for me, it was a nice bonus.
2) consider the source of the responses in your thread. The guys who have had the surgery are very happy with the decision. The guys who haven't had the surgery are miserable and telling you not to do it. Draw your own conclusions.
I recommend reading my journal, particularly the first post and the last 3 posts. I think you'll find it relevant.
Yeah i definitely noticed that. I do notice some bias between the two camps. Also ive been reading old threads for like the last 2 weeks and i do noticed that the biggest regrets among implanted guys was that they didnt do it sooner.
I worried at first about the age of most implantees, i mean the expectations for a 60 year old man are different than those of a 30 year old for example. An older guy with his life pretty much in order, a loving and understanding wife etc, of course when they get a rock hard erection on demand, they geel in God mode. But i do wonder about how the general feeling of young implantees was.
TBH i dont care much about being too young, im not really ashamed by it, in fact i can even make some bullshit story to make me seem cooler lol, but what i do worry about is that if my expectations are too high because of all the experiences from older men that ive been reading, that may not apply to my current needs or wants.
sgarza07 wrote:Sakabato wrote:sgarza07 wrote:Highly recommend Clavell! He will take care of your needs, rest-assured! Had my implant 1.5 years now at 32 and it is the best decision of my life.
I also suffered ED for a little more than a decade and I lost size. I recommend you use a vacuum to begin stretching you penis. This will help Clavell use the maximum size implant.
Would that be necessary even if i can still get erections at the moment? Im the same size as i always been
Yes it is necessary because your penis needs to stretch out to the max, not just 50-75%.
This is one concept that i still dont understand even after reading so many threads. Often i see that with a good doctor, you will most likely keep your original lenght, but in some other posts ive read that your original erection lenght doesnt matter, but what does matters is your strecthed lenght?
What is that? Just grab my flaccid cock and pull it and see how much it stretches? Because 1) i dont want to screw anything in there by pulling too much just to see my lenght and 2) the times ive done it ive noticed that my natural erection is definitely bigger than my stretched lenght.
PSSDorAmINormal wrote:Sakabato wrote:Viagra used to give me the hardest erections of my life, and would be able to keep thrusting non stop even after the first orgasm. Of course my face would look like a swollen tomato and id get hot to the point women would ask me why i feel so hot to the touch but other than that, it worked wonderfully.
Until it didnt. Im finding myself having to mix both cialis and viagra lately and upping the dosages too. Now i have a girlfriend living with me and im on daily 20mg cialis basically. Im rarely horny (in part due to stress i guess), erections are weak and dissapear at the first chance they get.
Ive lost many opportunities over the years to have sex with beautiful women because i simply dont want to bother going trough the process of taking pills, chatting her up while wondering if the pill is going to work, worrying about cumming too fast and knowing i cant go a second round to save my life, etc.
At this point is both a physical and mental problem (as it always is with ED i assume), and i do wonder if its worth it to go the next 10 years or so of my life worrying about my ED as opposed to just having it ready to go whenever i want at the cost of some risk and some uncomfortable steps.
The damage Propecia inflicted on your hormone system needs to be addressed if it hasn't already. Also you can't ignore the fact that men's testosterone levels drop in their 30's it's just a sad fact of life. So even though it has been 10 years since Propecia pills, hormonal issues could certainly affect your libido today. Viagra and Cialis can probably cause slight facial flushing, but looking like a swollen tomato head seems a little much. Higher dose is not always necessary, and with that can come more of the negative side effects unfortunately. Another thing of concern is "daily 20mg cialis". I've never heard of that high a dose for daily use. Usually it is 2.5mg or 5mg, so you're way over that. Another thing to consider is the stress in your life. And just in case you missed it the first time, there should be no shame in having to make a slight adjustment with your hands to "fluff" yourself. That's why we have hands that reach our penis. I'm sure females use their hands!
So I'd definitely encourage you to have those hormones checked, checking your stress and maybe dialing it back on your boner pills if side effects are a problem. The next logical step if everything fails, would be to try those penile injection therapies that are available. Just trying to help a guy out.
Trust me man, ive been dealing with PFS for over 10 years now. Ive spent 10x as much time on forums about that condition as ive done in this one. Ive tried everything. I simply dont respond to any treatment. Im currently on TRT and while i notice a huge difference in every area, the one that doesnt seem affected by it is my sexual health.
Stress does play a huge part i will admit. Not sure if i want to go the injection route, i figure im going to be single shortly (thats a different subject) so im not really sure about experimenting with injection as a single man. I think that would be twice as stressful as timing the pills.
As of right now the way ive made it work with current GF is that she uses a vibrator on herself while she lays on her stomach and i give her oral or simply play with her body. Of course i use that time to give myself an erection and once she gets herself off, i slide it in and we start having sex. Sometimes is more spontaneous than that but most of the time thats the way we do it. She doesnt know anything about my ED (well ive had a few failures but she thinks its in my head), and i just told her seeing her masturbate is my beggist fetish (it really isnt lol), so she does it to please me (and she likes it a lot too), but this dynamic can get old real fast and i dont think its something that i can pull of as a single man on first few encounters with a different girl
