Hi Peabo,
Welcome to the forum.
8 months is too soon to start worrying about long term recovery - it can take up to 2 years.
Can you be more specific about when and how often you take the PDE5 inhibitor drugs (Viagra and Cialis)?
Viagra is an event drug, to be taken an hour or so before trying for an erection. Cialis can be used that way, but it's longer lasting, so there's also a daily low dose option. 10mg Cialis is a strange dose - it's an event dose for those who find the 20mg event dose gives them too many side effects. Normally, you would take 5mg Cialis daily, and possibly an occasional 20mg Cialis or a Viagra as an event drug.
The pump is an excellent idea until you are generating frequent natural erections. You should use it daily. The new curvature sounds like Peryonie's disease, and there are pump inserts for correcting this - go back to your ED clinic (or pump clinic) to arrange to get that. However, pumps used with too high a pressure or on blood thinners can cause Peryonie's disease, so you really should get back to the ED clinic to have that checked out.
The PDE5 inhibitors will only give you an erection when the nerves have recovered. The low dose daily 5mg Cialis is worth taking anyway, because it improves blood flow even in the flaccid penis which helps prevent it coming to damage in the absence of regular natural erections.
Muse, Vitaros, and Caverject are vasodilator drugs. These work differently and will generate an erection without working nerves, and even without any arousal. Caverject (and similar products Viridal and Invicorp) is the most effective, because they inject the drug directly into the corpus cavernosum, where it needs to be to work. Muse and Vitaros leave the drug in a different structure of the penis (corpus spongiosum), which may give you an erect glans, but it needs to diffuse across to the corpus cavernosum to work, so they are less effective at getting the drug into the right place. Vasodilator drugs can cause pain - with the injected ones, part of your ED clinic session will be to work out the minimum dose which works for you, which is likely to be the least painful afterwards. Most of the vasodilator drugs are Alprostadil based. If it turns out you just don't get on with that, it's worth trying Invicorp, because that uses a pair of different drugs.
You will probably have lost some length. removal of the prostate also removes the prostatic urethra (the length of urethra inside the prostate). In order to join the urethra back to the bladder, the bladder is pulled down into the prostate bed and the urethra is pulled in to meet it. Also, if you've gone some time without erections, the erectile part of the penis becomes less elastic. Achieving daily erections by whatever means (pump, vasodilator drugs, or PDE5 inhibitors) is important to maintaining the penis health, and may reverse some of the shrinkage, but very likely not all of it.
Wishing you all the best.
Edited by member 19 Mar 2020 at 18:47
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