Hillywilly wrote:Catmandu wrote:When the pills stopped working they would still give me a slight chubby but I mean about a 4/10 erection at best and that would flop if I wasn't tensing my pelvic floor to push blood into it. In the Doppler test the injection didn't work at all really it just gave me a chub but he could still see there was signs of a leak even with it being flaccid. In the cavernosogram the injection made me very hard, almost painfully hard, he put the ink in the vein to check for a leak and could see it leaking out and said yeah that's.not supposed to happen. If I was you and the pills are still working for you I would still try the embolization before thinking of the implant
Disagree. Long term data is not promising for embolization:
In case of positively confirmed venous-occlusive dysfunction including its morphological demonstration on CT cavernosography, the treatment strategy is occlusion of venous leaks (Box 3). Surgical therapy consists of deep dorsal vein ligation and additional ligation of potential collaterals. However, surgical treatment is rather invasive and usually needs to be performed in an operation room under general anesthesia. Not very encouraging, long-term success rates of surgical ligation of the deep dorsal vein and its collaterals are reported to be ~ 25%
Catmandu wrote:What exactly are you disagreeing with
Just because it's not a long term solution doesn't mean it can't be a legitimate and successful solution in the short term
Thanks to both of you for your feedback and posting your opinion.
As far as I'm concerned, the first thing I plan to do is CT cavernosography for further diagnostics.
After that, I'm really starting to wonder what to do next.
I certainly do not rule out embolization completely. Yes, I know that unfortunately it is not always helpful and even if it is, the effect is not long-lasting. However, I will probably end up with a penile prosthesis sooner or later so it won't make a difference to me because the penis will be cut and destroyed anyway. If embolization alone would help, even for a year or two, I would like to try it. It's always a few years of abstaining from a prosthesis.
Currently, I am not taking pills or anything and I have bizarre situations related to erections that I described above in response to "Catmandu".
I have always been convinced that a true venous leak does not come and go at will, but is a permanent disease and the only improvement should come with the use of pharmacology, whether it be pills or injections.
Hormones are another issue for me - from what I read on the web, venous leakage as a symptom (not physical condition) may also result from these matters. How much truth in this I do not know, although it is possible that it would explain why sometimes there are erections and sometimes there are none, or as I wrote back to Catmandu - at 3 pm, for example, I struggle with erection and orgasm, and 2 hours later I have a correct erection ...
As you can see in my footer, I also had a CT angiography test. Unfortunately, I did not respond to Alprostadil injections at all, but the study was continued(during doppler 10mcg of Alprostadil was given and had 75% erection with EDV of 15cm/s). Correct inflow through the iliac arteries was demonstrated, however abnormalities in the cavernous arteries were demonstrated. Namely, the left one was very very narrow and the right one was not visible at all on the examination. Perhaps this is where the problem lies, and the tablets will, for example, work better or longer on me. However, on the other hand, if this was a problem (narrow arteries) then after the blood flows to the penis with the help of pills, it should not be so difficult to maintain an erection.
I was born with mild hypospadias which I operated on unnecessarily and I had already had 2 operations on the glans. However, I don't know if that would have any effect on my current problem.
I try to think positively, but the very name of this disease is so terrible that it causes me incredible fear.
Another weird thing is morning erections that I have almost every day, they can last a few minutes and 30 minutes later after waking up I am not able to reproduce them with porn and masturbation.
Thank you for reading.