Three piece implants | Two Piece Implants | Surgery
The Surgery
Penile implant surgeries usually take from 1 to 2 hours and patients are normally released within 24 hours. Some doctors use general anesthesia while others prefer spinal anesthesia. Most patients are required to take antibiotics before surgery in order to reduce the risk of an infection. You will also most likely be required to use a urinary catheter to drain the urine from your body. The catheter will most likely be removed within a day after surgery.
Recovering from Penile Implant Surgery
The recovery period normally lasts for about a month to a month and a half. Patients usually suffer from extreme penile pain during their recovery phase. On top of that, inflatable penile implant surgeries (for both 3-piece and 2-piece implants) produce additional and severe pain in the abdominal area for most recovering patients. Unfortunately this is normal and can’t be avoided. Pain killers and sedatives will probably be your only aid but after you have had a full recovery you will more than likely feel no pain. Furthermore, doctors recommend you completely refrain from any sexual activity during the recovery period.
Possible Complications
Penile implants do help produce an erection but this is no guarantee that you will be able to have an orgasm or ejaculate. Furthermore, as with any surgery, there is a risk of incurring an infection or of the device malfunctioning.
In otherwise healthy men, an infection rarely happens (1 to 3 men out a 100). But the risk of infection increases depending on several factors: Diabetics are more at risk; eight out of a hundred diabetic men become infected. If you already have a penile implant and are simply replacing it or adjusting it your chances of infection increase substantially as well.
There is also the possibility that the device will fail to work or will work improperly; though nowadays this is seldom the case. Technology and state of the art materials and equipment are truly making current day penile implants much more reliable however the possibility of failure, as remote as it may be, still exists.
The useful life of the implant is another factor you need to consider. Most implants have a useful working life of about 5 to 7 years. Unfortunately they are not eternal; though science might get there soon. |
