Documenting my Journey as a 30 year old Asian - Korean Surgeon

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Hey guys, I stumbled across this looking for answers and found it to be an amazing story. My first question is why Korea ? Is there something unique about having the implant surgery in Korea?
I am really curious about the early cycling. I am 71 years old just had my surgery 15 days ago and dealing with a burning pain that comes on after I'm up and moving around a few hours each day.
My Dr. Won't let me cycle until at least week 4.
My swelling is gone and fortunately it seems I have no hematoma.
I pray that you get well and that this all works out as planned and I trust in God that it will.
PS: I see that one of you guys is a Vet, Thank You and God Bless you for your service!

Hey good to hear you got the surgery too!

There’s a few reasons why I went with Dr Park: familiarity with Asian patients, high volume surgeon, center of excellence, and he teaches this craft around the world.

I just passed the week 4 mark and he suggested I wait another 1-2 weeks to start cycling due to my swelling symptoms.

When I was at the two week mark I couldn't really stand for more than 15 minutes without things being painful, and had to take 6 Tylenols a day to keep the pain at bay. Give it another 1-2 weeks and you’ll start feeling more normal. I stopped having to take any Tylenol since last week, and am able to walk around quite normally the past couple of days. You’ll get to where I am very soon!

[Nixtex]

Sep 12 update: 90% pain gone, still working through scrotum swelling, normal activities resumed without pain.

I’m at week 4 now and still 1-2 weeks out from cycling. Theres lots of scar tissue and swelling in the scrotum, but I’ve had breakthroughs the past few days where I can start feeling the pump better. Not quite at a point where I can grab the deflate part easily yet, but getting there.

Dog ear is present but not painful anymore.

One thing I have noticed is the tubing at the base of the penis. It’s quite obvious when I’m sitting down. I can see and feel the tubing on the left side. Doctor said slim men with small scrotum (I’m both) can experience this. He reassured it won’t break from the impact of sex.

Cosmetically it’s not great and might feel obvious if I’m sitting. Don’t know how I feel about this yet, definitely a bummer but I don’t think it’ll be too noticeable with a partner.

[Nixtex]

Sep 23 update: hate to be sharing this update with some bad news, but unfortunately since the last update, my tubing has gone and started curling outwards making it protrude out of my scrotum. I spoke with my doctor and sent pictures, and we determined that a small revision surgery is going to be performed at the end of next month.

The hypothesis is that I might have sat too much after surgery, and I didn't pull the pump down enough during the initial weeks, that its made the tubing settle in a really not ideal manner.

Luckily, this is basically a pump repositioning revision, so I'm expecting and hoping the recovery wont be as intense as the first one. I will have to keep course for now to keep cycling and do what needs to be done to fix the curvature.

I asked if the tubing could be trimmed any shorter, he said my tubing is already trimmed as much as possible to keep it functional.

It's disappointing to have to go back under the knife so soon again, but I guess this is the downfall of this type of surgery (or any surgery) is to accept that even at the best of hands, things can go wrong.