Kevin's Story, Years of ED followed by Implant Surgery

Friends:

I'm pleased to introduce all of you to Kevin and to publish his story along with several pictures that he has graciously submitted to me for publishing on this blog. As I have said all along. I created this blog to become a learning resource, and to fill a real void that is out there. That void is information from those of us who have undergone surgery and had a surgical implant placed in our penis so that we could once again enjoy sexual relations with our partner's. If this is your first visit to my blog, than I would urge you to navigate to the beginning which starts in May 2007 and read all of the entries of this blog. You will then be able to read my experiences as well as view pictures that I took of myself all the way through my implant experience. You will also be able to read and view pictures of other men's implant experiences that are posted on the blog site. Today Kevin now joins a very select group of men who is willing to share his experiences with all of you. I really appreciated it when some very special men take the time to share with people who are from all over the world who are seeking as much information as they can about penile implant surgery to a very important part of our male bodies. This is Kevin's story as well as pictures of his penis both flacid and under the influence of viagra. Kevin had implant surgery a little over two weeks ago and will be sending me pictures which will be added to this blog site at a later point of his penis in the flacid as well as erect stage due to his implant. This is Kevin's story.

Hi Bob,
Great to hear back from you. I am very excited to have my implant and I will be very patient with it and not rush things along. Here is my story and I give you permission to publish my story on your blog. You are quite welcome to edit it in any way you see fit. Congratulations on the pending new web site, I would be very interested in helping in any way I can. I will do some pictures for you of the end result and you can also publish some pictures I had pre op, this might help people understand loss of length girth post op. Those were taken with Viagra, Viagra only worked for a short period once I initiated sex; maybe 15 minutes, then it usually would not stay erect for penetration leading up to my implant. So I had just had another disappointment at the Urologists office, I had been given a penile injection after a Doppler scan of my penis revealed low blood flow, The injection was the next thing after trying all the usual suspects, Viagra, Cialis, Levitra. All the pills had worked with limited success, I would get hard but then go down as I was about to penetrate, or the timing was off with my girlfriend. Sometimes the side effects were terrible, raging from headaches, heartburn!! Sometimes they never worked at all. So here I am lying on the Urologists table having an Injection placed in my penis for the first time, OUCH!!! and the real kicker was "Nothing" not a dam stirring in my penis after 30 minutes, now I was depressed.

So Dr M looks at me and says Kevin you might want to think about the Penile Implant as he pulls a model device from his white coat pocket. The thing looked huge; I thought to myself how the hell do they get all that in there? Anyway I listened intently and got as much information as I could from Dr M and then I went home and studied, going online and finding out as much information as I could about penile implants, the information which included Bob’s wonderful Blog gave me hope.

Then of course that dreaded word "Surgery" reared its head. I am sure that like most of you reading this, sex is so important to us guys, I decided right then if I could get my insurance to pay, I would ask Dr M to perform the surgery as soon as possible. That date turned out to be October 17th 2007 at 8am!!! Here is my ED story, I am sure some of you will feel I am lucky to have had this surgery, because as you will find out, my ED was never the side effect of Cancer or any other disease or ailment, and sometimes it just did not work and that just kept getting worse. It might also surprise some of you that my first Urologist visit was May 2007 and in October of the same year I have my implant in place.

The beginning of Erectile Dysfunction

My ED started as long ago as 1980 I was 20 years old and not married, my girlfriend at the time and I on occasions experienced erection difficulties that would make my penis go down before we had finished making love. This was the start, over the next 10 years I had intermittent problems but was successful most of the time. I got
married at 29 and my wife and I enjoyed a healthy sex life with the continuing intermittent issues and then at about age 35 I started to have real difficulty, suddenly semi erect or no erection at all. I am sure most of you can relate to the "once it starts it then becomes a terrible mental battle with yourself" thing. To keep this shor,t this is when I started the Viagra etc and my road towards the implant. I think we all find some sort of injustice, the why me syndrome. I was very lucky to be blessed with a large endowment, but I can tell you, there have been many times that I would have settled for a hard 5 inch penis than the thick 7.5 inches I had been granted by the penis god, that after age 35 would not reach its potential without assistance or sometimes not at all.

So here we are many year later, implant in place and this is my story as of 17 days Post op.

My procedure went very smoothly and on time. I had the best care possible and all of the staff at the hospital were wonderful. There was very little prep and my surgery was at 8am. I remember going in to the operating room, but was out pretty quickly, and the next thing I knew, I was waking up in the recovery room, all done. The rest of the day is kind of a blur, on pain medication and obviously the after effects of the surgery. The first night I had enough pain meds too keep myself from feeling much of anything, but I can tell you the next week was painful but bearable with the help of Oxycodone. The surgeon did a wonderful job, one incision in the scrotum and most of the bruising was actually at the base of the scrotum and in the penile shaft. There are several pictures showing my penis at the 14 day mark. I am sure most of you want to know is it really painful. Well the answer is NO, not really, more of very uncomfortable. The biggest problem I have had is sleeping. I tend to move around a lot in my sleep, and it keeps waking me up. After 2 weeks I have started to sleep better and the bruising and discomfort is diminishing.
Now there are different after care procedures depending on the surgeon, here is my post op care.

1. Surgeon phone call, day after procedure
2. 5 days after surgery Office visit for check up
3. 10 days post op, stitches removed
4. Next Visit 6 weeks Post op

My surgeon does not allow any pumping of the device until the six week mark. It is inflated 25% and left that way until my six week follow up. Your surgeon may be different, some allow pumping as early as two weeks post op. As of today I am feeling very positive about the surgery and I will keep you updated on my progress and will also provide updated photographs of the penis when my pumping starts. I have heard many stories of people being disappointed about losing some length, I guess that one throws me through a loop somewhat, because if you cannot get hard, Isn’t it better to lose an inch and be ready. I expect to lose an inch and I am willing to accept that for being able to maintain an erection.I will update my story at the six week mark, if you wish to contact me you can e mail me at ktusacan@msn.com
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Let me know if the pictures came through BOB, hope this is good material for your blog.
Best Regards,
Kevin (It is ok to use my real name)