Postby Oldboy » Mon Aug 28, 2023 10:20 am
Took from another thread... I'm worried...
3rd Implant. I can’t afford this !!
Unread postFri Aug 25, 2023 8:08 am
I’ve forgotten the brand names of these things, but my urologist here in Sydney Australia only does the Boston Scientific inflatables.
First one lasted about 5 years, and both cylinders failed by tearing right where I predicted they would, ie on the bend caused by fitting it , flaccid, into my underpants, and where ordinary walking causes it to be flexed back and forth, thousands of times.
I’m a materials scientist and know about fatigue cracking and this is “Fatigue Failure 1.01”.
I posted about this before, as I had come to the conclusion that it must be left ¼ ish pumped, at all times…. And if that means at least 6 or so inches to be accommodated in my trousers, then “so be it”
And I wrote all that up here, expecting so sensible comments, especially from the designers, but it seems no - one from “the industry” bothers to read this forum.
And, for all the outlay of money, there isn’t one suggestion of any guarantee, or warranty period.
The first”revision “ was done in November 2021.
That was when I implemented the semi-erection policy.
That revision STOPPED WORKING in only 15 months.
I’m now about 3 months into my 2nd revision.
Dr reported one cylinder torn, and something awry with the pump.
“Must have both been faulty”, was all he offered.
I must say that when I posted about the first failure, the most sensible comment, though not in the slightest use to me was along the lines of “Dr Eid says most failures are in the tubing and pump”. . . .
Now I just cannot imagine I’m the only man in the world burning up my old age retirement dollars in this way. . . .
And I’m shocked and disappointed that Boston Scientific , who had a rep there every time, weren’t at all pro-active with following me up to advise what their expectations and experience of other early failures is, or to ask me any questions based on their failure analyses. And tell me what they had learned from mine. . . .
The copper water pipe manufacturers know you will get fatigue cracks at bends where the cross section of extruded and cold drawn domestic Cu tube becomes oval due to poor bending techniques. The stressors here are forces on pipes caused by abrupt stoppage of water flow from washing machines, etc. Much advice has been distributed to plumbers.
I should watch what I’m saying here, as I’m waiting for a return phone call from the very person who witnessed at least this last revision.
When I was trying to glean anything from the Surgeon, he just said “I’m not an engineer I just put them in”
So my impression so far, is that there doesn’t seem to be any expertise being built up between the maker and the customer.
But, I should hold my further caustic comments back until I’ve been contacted next week.
I would have thought they should have been beating a path to my door, trying to find out what I’m doing wrong.
But what goes on inside a man’s underwear as he walks to work is still apparently a verboten subject.
Inside the skin, it seems an entirely different matter.
Of course,I am so privileged to live in an age to be able to have my impotence temporarily reversed.
In generations past, older men with sad old sleepy dicks just became mad, alcoholic or some other dreadful stuff happened to them.
But 15 months?? ?
That’s way too temporary. . . .
R
AMS 700 Implant 2015 Sydney Australia Dr L Carlo Yuen, and team incl Prof Stricker. Excellent. It changed my life... . . .Stopped working in 2020. Ripped both sides. Complete revision, 22 cm cylinders Nov 9. 2021. Prof Stricker
