3 weeks post op: cylinder poking side of shaft?

[DonBecker54]

Right after surgery, the cylinder on the right side of my penis was poking the shaft maybe 1/2" back from the glans. It was uncomfortable. With time it straightened itself out.

On Monday the doc deflated me. I now have the cylinder poking the side of the shaft again, and giving me a bit of discomfort. I've tried to deflate it further, but I can't squeeze the valve hard enough.

Is it normal for a cylinder to poke the side of the shaft? I would think the cylinder would be all the way up into the glans. Or doesn't that happen until full inflation?

I thought I understood everything involved, right up until I got out of surgery and realized I knew very little.

[alibaba]

Agree about thinking I'd learned it all and know less. Just like the porstatctomy, what the doctors tell you before is near nothing. Makes me think of used car salesmen. I also find it interesting that people who told me about their implants are telling me a whole lot more that they never mentioned before.

[merrix]

Right after surgery, the cylinder on the right side of my penis was poking the shaft maybe 1/2" back from the glans. It was uncomfortable. With time it straightened itself out.

On Monday the doc deflated me. I now have the cylinder poking the side of the shaft again, and giving me a bit of discomfort. I've tried to deflate it further, but I can't squeeze the valve hard enough.

Is it normal for a cylinder to poke the side of the shaft? I would think the cylinder would be all the way up into the glans. Or doesn't that happen until full inflation?

I thought I understood everything involved, right up until I got out of surgery and realized I knew very little.

I am 7.5 weeks out.
I have a kink on right side near the base.
Doesn't hurt and doesn't cause any problems. Don't know whether it will long term.
My cylinders have been fixed high up in my glans since day 1. They haven't moved and they don't change position when inflating/deflating.

For whatever it is worth, Dr. Eid told me his rule of thumb is:
Perfect sizing means kinks when deflated and no kinks when inflated combined with cylinders sitting well into glans
Kinks when inflated means oversizing and risk for erosion.
No kinks when deflated means undersizing.

[DonBecker54]

It's not kinks. I can push the tip of the right cylinder and cause it to collapse or "dimple" a little bit. It pops right back out,though.

For the first week to week-and-a-half after surgery, the right cylinder wasn't running parallel to the shaft of the penis. The penis was angled 30-40 degrees off to the left, and the cylinder was really poking the right side of the shaft. It made a big bulge, and it hurt. I was concerned because the tip wasn't in the glans.

Then it seemed to find its way into the glans and wasn't poking out.

Dr. Milam deflated me on Monday after two weeks. On Wednesday I thought I'd just try using the pump a little bit to see how hard it was to work. I squeezed the bulb as hard as I could, and I think I got just a little bit of inflation. I think it was just enough to make the cylinder poke out the side. I tried squeezing the deflated button, and may have succeeded. It's not poking out as much.

I've been concerned about so many things that turn out to be normal that I'm going to assume that everything is fine, and wait until my six-week followup to see how everything goes. I still don't understand why the tips are so far back from the glans, though.

Alibaba, I don't understand how you can be inflating and deflating this soon after surgery.

[alibaba]

don, I try to deflate it when I can. Discharge summary they gave me is different than the one they have in my record, none mention how it is to be inflated. One handed too me says no exercise for 6 weeks, no walking 2, the one one my record says for me to walk and exercise and go to the American Heart association web site for exercise instructions. Verbally I was told by the nurse everyone is hard and it has to stay erect for 42 days else it won't heal correctly. Subsequent doctor inquiries tell me that is not quite right. Sometimes, like when asleep it inflates on it's own till the tubes jamming into things hurt. When I deflate it it gets a serious bend left. Originally it had a little bend but now it is much worse.

[DonBecker54]

Yes, I met with Dr. Milam for my two-week followup. Originally I was scheduled to meet with some nurse or something, but Dr. Milam's nurse got frustrated with me. I think she scheduled me to meet with Dr. Milam because she thought he'd yell at me or something.

He was very pleased with the progress, and said everything was perfect. I asked about the length of the cylinders, and he said we won't know the final length until the 6 week followup. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I don't lose any. A long shot, I know, but there's guys here who didn't lose.

Dr. Milam was originally going to install an AMS. I read that the Titan gets better girth. When I got Peyronies last year I lost length, but I picked up another 1/2" or more in girth (the blood has to go somewhere) to where I was at 6". He agreed to do the Titan based upon that.