At last, my penile implant

Thanks again for sharing with such brutal honesty! I am very glad it works well enough that you would do it again. On the question of penile sensitivity, I wanted to mention that I'm detecting a growing number of men who struggle with sensitivity over time, in my case Year 3 after radical prostatectomy.

I haven't had an implant but have some similar symptoms. Definitely get less exquisite pleasure when the glans part doesn't, as you said, "plump up" fully. And I don't fully understand why it is getting worse after 3 years. Maybe simply that I am getting older (only 64 and otherwise fit though) - or perhaps more likely that I am just not as easily aroused by the slightest sexual opportunity as I was when first recovering from RP and PCa.

Dear Ulsterman 

I think you really took one for the team. Your story really outlines the devastating effect of this disease and its impact on a man's very existence. I long for some longevity but accept that whatever the outcome quality of life will never be the same again.

A brave story that provides education and acts as a beacon of hope like the lighthouse of Blackhead Antrim.

Gabriel 

An update.  The implant gives me very firm erections.  However, I've got a floppy glans/head.  Medication to improve that isn't great ..... alprostadil down the urethra.  The pain is reminiscent of the injections.  It looks like further surgery later this year to reposition the glans.  

Would I do it again?  To be honest, I think I would.  It's an imperfect solution.  But it is a solution.

Good to know Ulsterman. I don't expect to have the implant anytime soon.  Before the op I was 60-80% sure about having it but now I feel I've got nothing to lose. Think I would definitely choose the three part implant. Also pretty depressed at the moment due to feeling emasculated. Tried various amounts of Caverject a couple of years ago without success, looking at a bathmate to improve the blood circulation instead of the sildenfil.

JDHD, I don't understand why you are using sildenafil.  If you had non nerve sparing surgery, this will not work.  (That's what my urologist told me.)

I urge you to try invicorp injections whilst you are waiting for your implant surgery if you haven't already used them.  Many men have found invicorp worked for them when everything else had failed.  Make sure you're injecting technique is correct.

I don't know where you live, but all of my reading about the implant said to make sure you use a surgeon who really knows what they are doing.  I had mine done at UCLH which is one of the biggest providers of this surgery.

I got the AMS 700.  I think this is pretty standard.

Invicorp is similar to caverject but made with different chemicals.    Many men have found success with it.

Never heard of a bathmate.

I'm told one of the Bathmate models is approved for supply on NHS prescription, but I've never come across anyone who got it that way. Also heard the SomaErect Response II accounts of 80% of NHS prescriptions (possibly because the iMedicare who supply it seem to run most of the pump clinics), and I suspect the Esteem Erectaid probably accounts for most of the remaining 20%.