New implantee having most (?) of the usual freakouts

[joho1984]

Sorry to ask so many questions of late…

I’m a new (surgery + five days) implantee here slightly freaking out (which I think is normal, but I’m slightly neurotic I guess). LGX installed, plus scrotal webbing reduction plus ligament cut last Tuesday.

All went smoothly but my scrotum feels so much bigger than normal. It’s not painful, per se, but very swollen and seems to have become more so (?) in the past 24 hours.

On the upside, no pain at incision, which looks neat and has had only minimal spotting when taking off plasters (now off for good), horsing antibiotics, no temp. Pump is locatable but hard (per universal experience) and not adherent to scrotum.

On the downside, can’t understand that I’ve got zero bruising (apart from where I was told to re-inflate a little (as opposed to full cycling) after my flight home) but my sack can be so big, and the inside of it feels so much thicker than normal. Irrationally (?) I’m self-diagnosing with the mental bogeyman of infection.

But rationally, is it just more likely that swelling can increase over several days before decreasing and the swelling is confined to my ballsack because that’s where the pump and all was shoved past, plus a bit of skin was excised from?

Just interested in the corollary of others’ experience?

[wolfpacker]

The swelling will be a rollercoaster for the first week. You're doing the right thing, focusing on the incision (no increasing leakage) and no fever. Just keep cruising man

[Rider1400]

ICE,ice ice!!! Sounds totally normal.

[Gt1956]

Some have posted about extreme scrotal swelling & bruising. In my case, I don't remember very much of either. But, a very big but. I bet it is very dependent on how much work was done on & in the scrotum. So any work on your loose shaft skin would likely give you different results from mine.

Size of your scrotum might factor in also. Fwiw, my nurse then later the dr both said that I had a large scrotum. I never knew that I did.

[Txagq8]

The attached isn’t meant to be scary.

I had a good surgery. A good, uneventful recovery. No real pain albeit quite a bit of bruising.

This was five days after my surgery. It’ll be 5 years at the end of December. This implant is great! It looks normal. It performs better than any real equipment out there.

But on day 5 I was like “WTF have I done?”

Patience is a virtue.

[JohnHC]

My scrotum after both surgeries had some bruising but the swelling, I thought they replaced it with a softball. My scrotum swole way up, but after about a week of icing it 2 to 4 times a day it came back down. Sounds like you're doing fine.

[Bigdog4all]

Ice, on and off, and patience......

[CigareVolant]

Okay, here is some reassurance.

At a little over two years, I love, love, love my bionic cock. Works great for sex. Feels like "me".

But I had a bit of a rough start. I don't know why, but I got a lot of swelling at first. I was just re-reading my journal from after the operation, and even after three weeks my balls felt really weird. The left side was pretty normal, but on the right, where the pump went, things felt really weird around my ball. I mean, it was like thick cardboard around it and I really struggled to even distinguish my right ball from the pump. I was very frustrated.

I went back to my journal, and here's a note at day 30, which was when the doctor told me it was okay to cycle: "I did manage to press the deflate button in the office and Karpman said for me to cycle. I had managed to find the button in the office, though clumsily, and then did at home after a partial inflation. I was afraid to inflate too hard for fear of it getting stuck that way if I couldn't cycle. It's a little cumbersome, because the pump is kind of fixed in place and there's still some thick skin right nearby."

Remember, everything is wonderful now! So those feelings you are having now about how it's scary and broken and it doesn't feel right — all of those are normal. I mean, for whatever reason, my experience was worse than average, according to my doc, but it in the end it all worked out wonderfully. The skin is all back to nice, normal, thin scrotum skin, and I can easily feel the pump to inflate and deflate.

It wasn't until week 10 that I finally wrote: "Everything is working perfectly."

At week 12 I wrote: "My implant feels like part of me. Just normal. Inflating is easy, and I can even do it with my left hand. Deflation is easy and always works. (Sometimes it takes a bit longer than others, but it's never a problem. The skin feels "thinner" and I can more easily feel the components on the pump. My fingers are so used to how everything is positioned that I can usually go directly to the deflate position with little if any feeling around for right spot. Partly because I'm used to it, I think, but also because the thin-ness lets me feel the correct "landing spots" for finger and thumb."

Hopefully you won't take as long to heal as I did. As I said, my experience was unusual and towards the slow end. But the point is, in the end, despite the slow start, it all turned out wonderfully and I am thrilled about my decision.

Good luck!

[joho1984]

First, thanks again for all the wonderful insight. It's really reassuring and generous of people to share their experiences. It's also fascinating to see people's different experiences and the subjective response to physical trauma in individuals. But mainly the camaraderie is welcome. I've upped the icing and lo and behold, overnight, the scrotal swelling seems to have subsided somewhat.

Now I am moving on to the common neuroses of when will my length return? Bone pressed, pre-surgery I was bang on six inches, nothing more, nothing less, with the glans unengorged. I can almost get there now, but a good 1.5 inches of that must be covered by the pubic fat pad which I assume is swollen too? Also, my surgeon deflated me for my flight home and I put a painful few pumps back in as instructed, which I'll leave in, in advance of full cycling. I'm pleased I got some pumps in there. But presumably there's even a little more length to come out of that, once fully pumped?

Finally, in the flaccid condition, do the cylinders soften a little over time? I get that they'll be slightly harder than the pre-surgery flaccid condition, even at 'flaccid' now, they still feel pretty solid.

Take care all.

[Nixtex]

Okay, here is some reassurance.

At a little over two years, I love, love, love my bionic cock. Works great for sex. Feels like "me".

But I had a bit of a rough start. I don't know why, but I got a lot of swelling at first. I was just re-reading my journal from after the operation, and even after three weeks my balls felt really weird. The left side was pretty normal, but on the right, where the pump went, things felt really weird around my ball. I mean, it was like thick cardboard around it and I really struggled to even distinguish my right ball from the pump. I was very frustrated.

I went back to my journal, and here's a note at day 30, which was when the doctor told me it was okay to cycle: "I did manage to press the deflate button in the office and Karpman said for me to cycle. I had managed to find the button in the office, though clumsily, and then did at home after a partial inflation. I was afraid to inflate too hard for fear of it getting stuck that way if I couldn't cycle. It's a little cumbersome, because the pump is kind of fixed in place and there's still some thick skin right nearby."

Remember, everything is wonderful now! So those feelings you are having now about how it's scary and broken and it doesn't feel right — all of those are normal. I mean, for whatever reason, my experience was worse than average, according to my doc, but it in the end it all worked out wonderfully. The skin is all back to nice, normal, thin scrotum skin, and I can easily feel the pump to inflate and deflate.

It wasn't until week 10 that I finally wrote: "Everything is working perfectly."

At week 12 I wrote: "My implant feels like part of me. Just normal. Inflating is easy, and I can even do it with my left hand. Deflation is easy and always works. (Sometimes it takes a bit longer than others, but it's never a problem. The skin feels "thinner" and I can more easily feel the components on the pump. My fingers are so used to how everything is positioned that I can usually go directly to the deflate position with little if any feeling around for right spot. Partly because I'm used to it, I think, but also because the thin-ness lets me feel the correct "landing spots" for finger and thumb."

Hopefully you won't take as long to heal as I did. As I said, my experience was unusual and towards the slow end. But the point is, in the end, despite the slow start, it all turned out wonderfully and I am thrilled about my decision.

Good luck!

Thanks for sharing this experience. I'm going through the same thing as you at your early stages. I'm just at my 4 week mark and I'm still having trouble feeling anything but the pump because my scrotum is swollen with thick skin. I'm hoping to be able to provide an update with some positive news soon.