Finally!

[vincentarpino]

Hi All:

This is my first post on my upcoming procedure, so, it's a little long (unlike my dick the past few years). I hope you'll find it entertaining and informative.

Finally, after delay after delay, I am finally scheduled for my implant procedure on November 4th. The delays had to do with, first, my urologist having to go back to Egypt for a family emergency. Then, my A1C was too high. For the third reschedule, my A1C was great, but Stage 4 Metastatic Colorectal Cancer came back for an encore presentation in June, so, it was delayed again until Nov. 4th.

I received the all-clear from my oncologist a couple of weeks ago, and my recent CT Scan showed that I am cancer-free again for the third time. I've been very lucky. I was first diagnosed with Stage 1 Colon Cancer in 2020. Clear margins, all was well. Then it came back around December 2023 and this time one lesion had moved to my liver. That makes it Stage 4. I had robotic surgery, but this time I needed 12 rounds of chemo. Between the chemo and the Type 2 Diabetes that I contracted during COVID somehow, my dick was not getting involved at all. But, I was busy just trying to stay alive. I've now survived Stage 4 twice and I'm ready for my friend to get very involved now!

I am a 66 year old male in relatively good health through eating clean, exercising and meditation/mindfulness. However, after years of battling ED due to obesity, co-morbidities, etc. slowly the pills stopped working and so did my penis. Shock wave therapy, cock rings, VED with cock rings...slowly but surely they all became ineffective. I tried TRT shots, kegels, drinking suggested smoothies. Nada. When I discovered penile implants, and soon after this amazing board, I was all in.

Unlike many men I've read about on here, my prostate is healthy, so that is not the issue for the ED. I have always been a grower now a shower, so I've worried about atrophy, etc. I've continued using a VED over the years and once I decided to have the implant procedure, I followed Dr. Clavell's advise and am pumping every day. While I'm still a grower, I have noticed significant gains in flaccid length. And, I wake up with morning...well, I wouldn't really call it "wood." More like rubber. But it is much fuller.

My current measurements in the VED which, believe it or not, started at around 5.5" in length are now consistently in the 7" to 7.25 range. My girth when I remove the VED is 6" at the base and 5ish by the head. I'm going to give these measurements to my surgeon at next week's consultation. I know they're not realistic because of the VED, but it shows me that he should be able to get close to fitting me at these dimension when he pumps me up on the table. I intend on being under the influence of anesthesia for THAT.

I like the idea of journaling, so I will continue to post on here. I'm hoping to influence others as so many of you have done for me. A special shoutout to Goodwood for being kind enough to share some personal messages with me...we New Yorkers stick together

Don't know about pics yet...but, I'll consider it.

I'm going to try and post at least every couple of days because this is also therapeutic for me, and, hopefully, for some of you.

I do look forward to your comments.

[LetoMan]

Congrats on scheduling, man. You are gonna be psyched once you are healed up. It’s the best.

Be well, Leto

[GoodWood]

Congrats on being cancer free! And congrats on the upcoming surgical date. We’ll all be here for you.

[dan_bionic]

Congrats on joining soon the bionic world of "the best sex of your life"
Dan

[Kodixx]

vincentarpino, congrats on getting all the stars aligned so you can move forward !

- Chuck

[vincentarpino]

Thank you!

[SWorks17]

Congrats on taking the leap to get your manhood back!

SWorks

[olddoggy]

I got mine done 10/13/2025 at San Jose Kaiser by Dr Rosentien I'm 75 yrs old tried pills injections and VD still working full time

[vincentarpino]

Greetings All:

Well, I met with my urologist yesterday to discuss my upcoming IPP procedure scheduled for November 4th. If you've been following along (and, truly, why should you be? ), I've had this postponed three times since last March. Today I received confirmation that my A1C is a comfy 6.5, good for a Type 2 Diabetic and way under the threshold for surgery at 8.0.

So, all systems are a go! My doctor spent a ton of time with me yesterday and was super-impressed with my research and questions. So, I'm gonna share some things we went over. What I am asking is for positive energy. If you don't agree with my doc's choices and procedure, I'm going to respectfully ask that you keep it to yourself. I am beyond excited and 100% trust my doctor and his team.

I am asking, because this community is really fucking awesome, is if you have the time and patience to read all of this, to please kindly respond with your experiences about the topics I'm about to cover.

So, interesting factoid: The Boston Scientific rep will be in the O.R. for the procedure. He and my doctor confer on implant size and product. Right now, my urologist is expecting to fit for an AMS 700 CX. He said he may change that to LX, but it will be a game time decision. He said he's going to use the newer model with the Tenacio pump. I brought up my concerns about the recall and he assured me that it was a very small number of recalls with specific serial numbers and none of them were his patients. He did say that he has found the Tenacio easier to pump and deflate and that his patients love it. So, those of you who have the Tenacio pump...what do you think?

I also asked him about measurement and how does he calculate the right size. I asked him if he induces an erection when I'm under; he stated that he knows that is a popular way of doing it, but, he prefers, with consultation from the BS rep, to use the measurement of the entire length of my penis from the pubic bone and the entire length of the hidden penis. He then uses those two calculations to measure the size. He said that I can expect that it will most likely be the length that I can see when I'm fully pumped up in the VED. Not the measurement, but what I can see. So, all pumped up I'm somewhere between 7 1/4 & 7 /12. The length I can see (I used a measuring tape while pumped up) is about 6.75"...so, I'm okay with that. For those of you who regularly and vigorously used a VED pre-op, did you find this to be the case for you?

As for girth, he feels the CX does a better job of maintaining girth than the LGX. My current girth after removing the VED, is around 5.5 at the base, and 4"ish under the glans. He was all for small daily doses of Cialis and that coupled with cycling, and of course, arousal, would get my girth back fully and also avoid Floppy Glans Syndrome. Any experience to share here?

Here was breaking news for me. I asked him about how inflated I'll be post-op and will I have to keep my penis in an upward position for six weeks. My doc said that they only point it up if they are concerned about hematoma and that this has nothing at all to do with "breaking in" the implant, etc. So, he said when they take the bandages off the day after surgery, I can leave the hospital with my dick pointing in the usual direction...down. I may ask him to leave it maybe 20% inflated because I AM worried about a hematoma. Have any of you left the hospital for home with it pointing down rather than up? And deflated?

My doctor said that, depending on my healing, I may be able to start cycling in four weeks and resuming sex after the famed "six weeks." Have you also had this experience?

I am very confident in my team, and I also have found a lot of guidance from many on this Board. So, #1, thank you for reading this and if you have any comments, I would be very appreciative.

[Kodixx]

vincentarpino, I have a Tenacio pump and like it. It is on the recall list but no issues. I would select it again if I needed a revision. It's the only pump I've experienced, but when comparing notes with my Dr it appears to pump faster and it is easy to use. On mine, the 'one-touch' isn't one touch -- I have to keep it depressed while deflating but is not an issue for me. I have a CX and girth of 5.5" -- no regrets there either. I've taken daily Cialis 5mg for a long time and continue to. I believe it helps with engorgement which is really important.

Mine was pointed straight out, 50% inflated, for 7+ weeks -- I had ridiculous swelling and edema. My Dr told me to try to point it up, but I couldn't because of the hard ring of edema around the base. So it was straight out for the 7+ weeks. Things turned out great but I don't know how to compare that to other Dr's approaches.

Best wishes and be patient. The other side of this journey is amazing !

- Chuck

Right now, my urologist is expecting to fit for an AMS 700 CX. I brought up my concerns about the recall and he assured me that it was a very small number of recalls with specific serial numbers and none of them were his patients. He did say that he has found the Tenacio easier to pump and deflate and that his patients love it. So, those of you who have the Tenacio pump...what do you think?

He was all for small daily doses of Cialis and that coupled with cycling, and of course, arousal, would get my girth back fully and also avoid Floppy Glans Syndrome. Any experience to share here?

Here was breaking news for me. I asked him about how inflated I'll be post-op and will I have to keep my penis in an upward position for six weeks. My doc said that they only point it up if they are concerned about hematoma and that this has nothing at all to do with "breaking in" the implant, etc. So, he said when they take the bandages off the day after surgery, I can leave the hospital with my dick pointing in the usual direction...down. I may ask him to leave it maybe 20% inflated because I AM worried about a hematoma. Have any of you left the hospital for home with it pointing down rather than up? And deflated?

My doctor said that, depending on my healing, I may be able to start cycling in four weeks and resuming sex after the famed "six weeks." Have you also had this experience?