Txagq8 wrote:Let’s see what I can dredge up from the memory archives.
It was about 1987, I was 31, when I was officially diagnosed with physical ED. I had known something wasn’t right since I became (very) sexually active at 19. I couldn’t get doctors to believe it was anything except nerves, stress, performance anxiety, you’re only 27 etc etc.
When they finished the imaging, they put me on bimix. That was IT back then. No viagra, no Cialis, no implants. All that stuff was on the drawing board for the future. I used the bimix 1987-95. Then inn1995 my then-urologist expressed some concern about scarring so they switched me to Caverject (prostaglandin E1). If I had known about achy dick I might have embraced celibacy.
Viagra came out around 97-98. I immediately had a prescription for 100 mg. Army health care didn’t pay for it either. The old joke was the Army’s answer to ED was two popsicle sticks and a roll of duct tape. I was functional with the pills plus an occasional shot.
I had a work up in the urology dept at Univ of Kansas around 2000. They let me keep the oral meds and put me on TriMix.
I did that with about a 70% satisfaction rate for next 15 years.
Between 2015 & 2018, the blue pill and a max dose of trimix or Quadmix just got to where they would get me hard, for maybe 5-10 mins. At age 60 I am not quick on the trigger like age 19 or 22. So I got an implant.
I told my surgeon, discussed it at length, that I’d been in injection therapy 32 yrs and was curious about how scarred things were likely to be. After the surgery he told me he saw no signs of any scar tissue in there to speak of.
So the answer, really, is nobody knows. Injections due cause bad ass scarring and Peyronie’s in some guys. I’m living proof you can do shots for 32 yrs and things are clean as a whistle. I’d be inclined to try injections and at the first sign of trouble, raise the white flag.
I'm glad I never had to use Trimix, but I never asked about it, urology folks never brought it up in conversations. I used Viagra and Cialis depending on what contract the Air Force had. I'm surprised about your statement above about the Army not paying for it, I started getting it right after I retired from the Air Force in 1999 at Randolph Air Force Base and Tri Care Prime covered it. Now I know why the pharmacy folks called it the little blue diamond, I'm sure they were super expensive back then.
I'm glad you didn't have any scaring after injecting for that many years.
Maybe this young man should try injections for a while, hopefully it will work out for him.
80 yrs., married 57 yrs. ED for over 20 yrs.