Activation and early pumping schedules

[Quincy]

Hi. I'm scheduled for an implant May 31. You guys have been invaluable for education, support, and encouragement. Thank you!

Reading and chatting here about post op has led me to believe that starting daily inflation of the implant at the soonest practicable time will make it easier to deal with scar tissue. The info packet I got from my doctor says that my implant will stay deflated for 4 weeks, and sex and masturbation are prohibited for 6 weeks. I'm diabetic, and the possibility of infection goes up some for diabetics, so I'm going to be very careful.

I will follow what my doc tells me, but I'm going to ask him a couple questions about this. I'd like to know what your experiences in this area have been.

1. Did you leave the hospital partially inflated?

2. When did you activate?

3. After activation, did you go back to deflated for a while? If so, how long?

4. How long after the implant did you start cycling each day?

I'd also be interested in how effective you thought your approach was. Did you wish you'd started earlier or waited?

Thanks for your help, yet again.

Quincy

[Anonymous3]

Hi. I'm scheduled for an implant May 31. You guys have been invaluable for education, support, and encouragement. Thank you!

Reading and chatting here about post op has led me to believe that starting daily inflation of the implant at the soonest practicable time will make it easier to deal with scar tissue. The info packet I got from my doctor says that my implant will stay deflated for 4 weeks, and sex and masturbation are prohibited for 6 weeks. I'm diabetic, and the possibility of infection goes up some for diabetics, so I'm going to be very careful.

I will follow what my doc tells me, but I'm going to ask him a couple questions about this. I'd like to know what your experiences in this area have been.

1. Did you leave the hospital partially inflated?
Yes
2. When did you activate?
Cycling at 3 or 4 weeks each dr has their own protocol sex 6 weeks
3. After activation, did you go back to deflated for a while? If so, how long?
Omce you start cycling you will inflate at least once a day for as hard as you can asl9ng as you can stand it. When you start having sex you will inflate to what is comfortable for your partner, very few like it maxed out
4. How long after the implant did you start cycling each day?
See # 2
I'd also so be interested in how effective you thought your approach was. Did you wish you'd started earlier or waited?
Very well once fully healed followed dr orders except for the masturbation
Thanks for your help, yet again.

Quincy

[Larry10625]

Hi. I'm scheduled for an implant May 31. You guys have been invaluable for education, support, and encouragement. Thank you!

Reading and chatting here about post op has led me to believe that starting daily inflation of the implant at the soonest practicable time will make it easier to deal with scar tissue. The info packet I got from my doctor says that my implant will stay deflated for 4 weeks, and sex and masturbation are prohibited for 6 weeks. I'm diabetic, and the possibility of infection goes up some for diabetics, so I'm going to be very careful.

I will follow what my doc tells me, but I'm going to ask him a couple questions about this. I'd like to know what your experiences in this area have been.

1. Did you leave the hospital partially inflated? Yes 25-30%

2. When did you activate? 3 Weeks

3. After activation, did you go back to deflated for a while? If so, how long? No, started cycling right away - twice daily.

4. How long after the implant did you start cycling each day? 3 Weeks - twice daily

I'd also be interested in how effective you thought your approach was. Did you wish you'd started earlier or waited? No. It was quite uncomfortable at 3 weeks, I don't think I would have wanted it earlier. I used an electric heating pad on my scrotum. It made the pump squishier and easier to pump.

Thanks for your help, yet again.

Quincy

Larry

[Greg1956]

I left the hospital partially inflated. I have not idea what percent, but it was probably around 50.

My activation was at 4 weeks. I also had a Scrotal Web removed so I had two incisions and they would have rubbed against each other more if I was deflated so that may have been why 4 weeks instead of 3.

Once activated I started cycling as I was waking up each morning and going to bed each night. Otherwise I was mostly deflated, leaving just a few pumps in.

For me this approach was perfect, but we are all different.

Greg

[Quincy]

Thank for the replies. It looks like you were all on a similar schedule to what mine will be. 4 weeks seemed long to get started.

It's great to have people willing to talk about the subjects we cover here and a forum for doing so.

[Larry10625]

Thank for the replies. It looks like you were all on a similar schedule to what mine will be. 4 weeks seemed long to get started.

It's great to have people willing to talk about the subjects we cover here and a forum for doing so.

The reason you should ask your doctor is because, during surgery you doctor may do something a little different than others in favour of appearance vs durability or whatever... If it's ok for you to start cycling at 3 weeks instead of 4 weeks, he (or she) will tell you. They may say that just because they think it might be too uncomfortable, or not safe yet... Go ahead and ask, they won't mind.

Larry