Rich and the Two Piece Ambicor Penile Implant

Dear Readers:

The above photos were submitted by a gentleman by the name of Rich. Rich elected to have the 2 piece AMS Ambicor Penile Implant. Rich also included his story and you can read it below.

Hello

I finally got around to taking those photos. First shot (Bottom) is erect and second shot (Middle) is flacid. Top shot is flacid in my briefs. As you can see, I'm not one of the big boys anymore, but still at 4 inches, I can still get the job done.

As you may recall, I wrote before I had my first experience using my 2 piece Ambicor implant with my wife. I was nervous to be honest and it had been almost 14 weeks, so I had a big load built up, and I was ready and so was my wife. We played around for awhile and as she was stroking me. I pumped it up and she liked it. I am shorter in length and much smaller girth than before, but she likes that to. She is built very small and it used to hurt her when we had sex before because of my penis size. Everything fit nice and she had no discomfort and neither did I so we had great sex and both had satisfying orgasms. Glad I don't have to do the injections anymore and I can be spontaneous and have sex when desired.

She did coment that the tip of the penis seemed cold and says it feels different when she gives me a bj, but it feels great to me. Been 4 months now and all is well. I would have the implant again without a second thought. One benefit of the 2 piece implant is that it looks bigger when soft in my pants and my briefs and that isn't all bad

Day of Implant, AMS700 Ultrex with new Pump

Dear Readers

It's Tuesday, May 29, 2007 on or about 9:00 am and I'm at University Hospital in Columbia, Mo and I'm checking into (DOSA) Day of Surgery Admit. I get the paperwork completed, get the wristband, and then am told to wait until about 10:00 am as surgery is running a little behind. At 10:00 am, I am taken in where I get changed into a gown and lines put in. Around 11:00, Dr Weinstein informs me that they had received the wrong implants from AMS on Friday. They had received an AMS Ambicor and a AMS 700 CS, but no AMS 700 Ultrex. I have a couple of choices. He can implant the Ambicor or I can wait and they will have the AMS rep bring one to Columbia from ST Louis, and I'll have my surgery later that afternoon. I decided to stay with my decision to go with the Ultrex implant even with this FU situation. My Dr had the rep called and he started surgery on another patient with an infected kidney removal. The decision is made to move me up to the 7th floor to wait, and wait and wait. Now I haven't had anything to eat since midnight and nothing to drink since 6:00 am. Around 6:30 pm, they finally bring me down for surgery and I wait while they clean up the OR from the last patient, the nephrectomy. I was wheeled in a little after 7:00 pm for surgery. I woke up around 11:00 pm with some pain, but my surgery is over. Most of the pain that I'm feeling is from the catheter. I was later told that for the surgery, they put in a larger catheter, but replace it later with a smaller catheter when the surgery is almost over. It does leave you sore though, and hurts like they're dragging razor blades out through my penis, they finally removed it and I started feeling much better with it out. My penis is really sore when I urinate, but otherwise, I only have a dull aching pain. I got discharged today with a script for percocet and a script for keflex. I didn't have a lot of swelling and black and blueness, but as the day goes by, I'm turning black and blue more and more on the base of my penis and growing into my scrotum. I did learn from my Doctor today that my implant has a new type of pump that Dr Weinstein didn't even know was available yet for the Ultrex. It's smaller by about a third than the old pump pump that was coming out just recently with the AMS 700 series. To deflate the pump, you press on the button for 4 seconds and then release and the implant deflates. It also features an easier pumping mechanism similar to the Albacor pump. He hadn't figured on it even being available for several months from now. The AMS Rep from St Louis brought it down and stayed for my surgery and advised him on this new implant. This morning, one of Dr Weinsteins residents, a women urologist came to my room to deflate my pump all of the way. God did that hurt. She tried to deflate my pump like the older pump as she wasn't familiar with the deflation mechansim. I did get instructions on this new pump with the paperwork I received, and Dr Weinstein deflated by implant all of the way. Now, I'm home sitting with my ice bag in my lap and not moving too fast. The restrictions I received are: no lifting over 20 lbs for two weeks; no driving while on the pain meds; antibiotics every 6 hours for two weeks (keflex); no sitting in a bath, showers with no direct stream of water onto my penis, wash with a mild soap on the incision and pat dry; the stitches are desolving ones; no sex or use of the implant for six weeks. And take off two weeks from work. Thats all for now. I ll add more later.

The AMS Family of Implants

The AMS Ambicor is a two piece prothesis that enjoys the highest satisfaction rate of all the implants available for men who have Erectile Disfunction. It also hold the distinction of having a higher level of satisfaction over all methods that a man can use to over come his ED. This implant is easier for a surgeon to implant as their is no reservoir to implant inside the abdomen. It has two cylinders that implant into each chamber of the corpora cavernosa, along with the pump which is implanted into a man's scrotum. This implant enjoys an extremely high reliability index. Far above the other implants available. In the January 2007 issue of the Journal of Urology reported on the AMS Ambicor implant and this implant also is very easy to inflate. It only needs 5 to 6 pumps to produce an erection. This implant does not expand the girth or the length of the penis and does provide a very suitable erection.

The AMS 700 CX is a 3 piece implant that provides for expansion as well as a very stiff erection.
It does require the surgion to implant a reservoir in the abdomen. It also has a very high degree of satisfaction among users.

The 3rd three piece implant is the AMS 700 Ultrex implant. This is the AMS implant that is the most pospular implant available for implantation. It also has three parts. There are two cylinders that are implanted into the Corpora Cavernosa. Attached to the cylinders via tubing is the pump which is implanted within the mans scrotum. The reservoir is implanted into the lower abdomen via the inguinal opening along side the vas deferen. This implant is the most popular because it has expanded girth and expands in length as well. It's a well known fact that the majority ofmen loose some length on their erection. Some don't loose any, and some gain length up to 3 centimeters. 1 inch equals 2.5 centimeters. For men who have had abdominal injuries that have left scar tissue. The Ambicor is the implant of choice. It is also chosen when the man has limited dexterity. It is very easy to pump to erection and also easy to deflate. Because not all of the fluid is drained from the cylinders, men don't completely go flacid, so its not as natural looking as the AMS 700 series implants.

I have chosen the Ultrex as my choice in implants and will have it implanted on Tuesday, May 29th.