AMS (Moventary Squeez) Pump Experience

[hard drive]

Okay, so I'm on my second AMS 700 (first was the CX, this one is the LGX) with the MS pump and I'd like a little information from some long time users.

My pump tends to stop applying additional pressure to the cylinders at a certain point (very inflated) and then the bulb will easily compress all the way without adding more fluid. I did have this in my last device but it failed and I attributed this characteristic to the failing device. Since the new device behaves the same way, now I'm wondering if this is just how it works. None of the Titan pumps behaved like this.

Are other people finding that once the cylinders are full/tight that you can also compress the pump bulb all the way without addiitional fluid movement? I mean, is there a point where the pump simply bypasses and no extra psi is created?

I know my question is very clear, so please feel free to shoot me some questions so that I can clarify my point.

[alibaba]

My understanding was that there are 2 sizes of reservoirs. I am guessing here, but seems to me one held 100 cc and the other held 60. Depending on the size of cylinders and how much you might expand it might be running out of fluid. There was one guy I read that had to have a larger reservoir put in. I have also heard of surgery notes showing they did not fill the reservoir to it's capacity. Surgery notes should say size and how many cc's were put in it. d

[Anonymous 3]

Yes, my LGX with the MS pump does the same thing. I thought it was the positioning of the pump and perhaps there was a kink in one of the tubes that became unkinked because it seemed to happen when I held the assembly in a certain position and if I it moved just a little the bulb would go back to being very hard again. However I do have smaller cylinders and 65 cc's was placed in the reservoir according to the surgery notes. I think the new flat resevoir has only one size and can be filled with 100cc's or 65. The bulb does seem to refil after the very easy squeeze but what it refills with I don't know. The cylinders don't seem to get any harder, as hard drive noted. It can't be air because all the air was supposed to be removed, sort of like bleeding hydraulic brakes. So maybe it is as alibaba says, it runs out of saline.

[KMeister]

Okay, so I'm on my second AMS 700 (first was the CX, this one is the LGX) with the MS pump and I'd like a little information from some long time users.

My pump tends to stop applying additional pressure to the cylinders at a certain point (very inflated) and then the bulb will easily compress all the way without adding more fluid. I did have this in my last device but it failed and I attributed this characteristic to the failing device. Since the new device behaves the same way, now I'm wondering if this is just how it works. None of the Titan pumps behaved like this.

Are other people finding that once the cylinders are full/tight that you can also compress the pump bulb all the way without addiitional fluid movement? I mean, is there a point where the pump simply bypasses and no extra psi is created?

I know my question is very clear, so please feel free to shoot me some questions so that I can clarify my point.

I exprerience the same thing with my AMS CX sometimes. After the cylinders are full I can squeeze the pump all the way with nothing happening. I just reposition the pump a bit, then the bulb becomes hard and almost impossible to squeeze any further. I just had to get used to the machinery. I suspect you will too.

KMeister

[hard drive]

Okay so it seems everyone is having the same experience I am. Thanks for the info. I just wanted to know that mine is behaving within the norm. I've had so many failures, I guess I'm a little paranoid about it.

[JerGeezer]

With my first replacement the doctor installed the small reservoir. It was adequate at first, but after several months and the tubes had stretched a bit, there was no longer enough fluid in there to get it all the way up, I had to go back in and he exchanged the small one for the large one. That was a pain and totally unnecessary, as he should have installed the large one like what was in there the first time around.

[hard drive]

With my first replacement the doctor installed the small reservoir. It was adequate at first, but after several months and the tubes had stretched a bit, there was no longer enough fluid in there to get it all the way up, I had to go back in and he exchanged the small one for the large one. That was a pain and totally unnecessary, as he should have installed the large one like what was in there the first time around.

Damn, I sure hope I don't run into that problem. This is the first implant procedure that seems like a winner (I've had MANY) and I don't want anymore issues.

[JerGeezer]

I also hope you don't have to, but replacement of the reservoir isn't too bad, because it doesn't involve the penis.

[hard drive]

I also hope you don't have to, but replacement of the reservoir isn't too bad, because it doesn't involve the penis.

Good to know. I've found that if I change the position of the pump, the bulb becomes hard again and continues to add pressure in the cylinders. It seems to matter exactly where I squeeze the bulb and also where I grab the pump/tubes with the other hand. It's quite finicky compared to the previous MS pump or the Titan OTR pump.

[alibaba]

must be the tube from the reservoir is getting kinked if changing the position lets it fill. We've all heard stories of that happening; seems like more often with infrapubic placement for some reason. One reason why I questioned Dr. Milam's insistence on infrapubic. d