Implant Replacement - First Time

[Rarogar]

Hey guys, I'm having to get my implant replaced due to a leak for the first time; its been four years since I originally got it when I was 30, I'm 34 now. I was wandering if anyone who has gone through the replacement surgery has any tips or advice to share? I'm worried about scar tissue development between now and then, since I cannot get erect at all without a working device. It first happened on July 30th, and I have a surgery scheduled for September 4th, so about a month and a half of no erection at all.

I've heard that people can use a VED in the meantime, but does that even work with an implant? I thought it only worked by drawing blood into the erectile tissue, which I don't have anymore.

Anything at all from anyone would be really great.

[backup2014]

Hello sir, I’m definitely no expert, but I have had two replacements in the last 10 years. I haven’t had any issues with scar tissue and it has worked just like the first two. As far as using a pump, I would ask my doctor about this. Some guys use them with great success, I haven’t heard any negative. But you have to let the cylinders do what they do, your doctor is going to install the max that you can be. So I don’t see where a pump is going to help out. I would follow doctors orders when it comes to cycling. And cycle as often as possible to ward off any athropy. So don’t worry about getting a replacement it’ll work out OK. Best of luck to you, my friend.

[Hrc714]

If you read the statistics, implants last an average of 15 years. By some bizarre coincidence, the folks on this site last about four years. Not since the incredible natural evolution of COVID in the parking lot of the very virology lab that studies that virus has their been such a crazy coincidence!

[Rarogar]

So I don’t see where a pump is going to help out.

Hello, thank you for the reply. Yeah I was just thinking it might help keep the tissue worked and stretched every now and then since I can't get an erection any other way atm. I'm just really scared of scar tissue, like it's the first thing I thought about the night my implant stopped working. My doctor said the VED shouldnt hurt but since I don't have the erectile tissue anymore that it probably won't actually do anything.

Might I ask, what was the recovery like for replacements? Since I already have the pocket where the implant is going, I'm hoping the recovery should be a little easier.

[wilsonmill]

Hello Rarogar, my first implant failed in March of the year, Titan lasted 5 years, then a hole in the tubing gave me the flat tire. I read and looked up any info about using a VED prior to the revision. What I found was some guys were and it kinda made sense since my pecker wasn't getting any action, I purchased a pretty inexpensive one off of Amazon, I used it once a day about 5-10 minutes just to move the blood into my glans as well as making it hard to keep any atrophy from happening, I didn't do it that long just enough to keep it moving, as soon as you turn the vacuum off it immediately would go back flaccid, I had no issues. In June I had my revision AMS LGX, love it, healing, pain, bruising, swelling was nothing like the first implant, never had any bruising, swelling was minimal and pain was nothing Tylenol didn't take of, honestly, nothing like the first. I started cycling in 10 days after the surgery, carefully, took slightly less than a month for the incision in my scrotum to completely heal, went back to my surgeon today, Dr Chang, and all looks great. Hope this answers some of your questions with my experience.