Surgery issues

[Byron]

Some new breakthrough with vaccine - on news today (University of Surrey)
but do not know whether it has a name.

Btw, have you seen this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnYgTlsISA4

[sebbie]

interesting video!

[sebbie]

All

I thought I would write you an update on my prostate surgery as of this morning. Right now, I am almost exactly 6 months out of the surgery. Not surprisingly, there have been two significant recovery issues, small amounts of urine flow that occur in odd situations, and, difficulty in getting back to having an erection. The fact that orgasms are without semen is not a problem. Indeed, I can masturbate in bed at night without messing up the sheets, something I couldn’t do without a little urine flow a few months ago. Being able to shut off the semen in bed entirely might have proven a quite handy talent when I was 12 or 14!

At this point, the urine flow issue has been pretty much confined to two situations. First, anything that presses on my butt can cause this to happen, even just drying my butt with a towel can do it. Not a lot of urine though, just a few drops, usually. I suspect that guys who stick whatever in their butts would have a potential issue here, however (attention gay guys!). Things in the butt normally massage the prostate through the rectum, and neither the prostate nor the prostate valves that shut off urine flow at that point are there any more, and there is usually a little urine in urethra beyond the bladder. Thong underwear is a bit dangerous to well, as the pressure from the strap on the back of the thong often cinches up tight right into the butt area pressing against the spot where the prostate was, and I am still running experiments on this using various thongs to determine exactly what happens and when.

The other situation normally occurs when I otherwise would have been precumming prior to surgery. This is, of course. At the very early stages of sexual arousal. I am discovering that this is a lot more complicated that I thought. This morning I was feeling kinda horny, and I decided it would be fun and sexually enjoyable today to just wear a skimpy little jock strap around the house today under compression shorts, when I am working around the house, excercising etc. Before the surgery the tight strap would get me precumming, no problem, and rather quickly. So I got a tight little strap in place and immediately shot a tiny stream of urine, not much but more than a few drops.

I pulled the strap down to check and, lo and behold there was a nice little spot that was clearly precum, between the size of a dime and a quarter. Psychologically I was feeling pretty good too, much as if I had been precumming in the old (pre-surgical) days. The only tricky part is figuring out how to deal with the little urine stream that accompanies or just precedes this, and I can go back to my much-beloved precumming employing a strap, thong or a tiny suit. In the case of the strap I am wearing today, the thinner urine stream went right through the coarse textured rubberized pouch, leaving the viscous precum stain pretty much intact in the pouch. Interesting!

The other issue, of course, is if, when and at what level will real erections start to occur. As I indicated, I am about 6-months away from the so-called nerve-sparing laparoscopic prostate surgery. The surgeons face the dilemma of not wanting to leave any of the tumor behind and yet leaving their patients as intact as possible with respect to being able to regain an erection post-surgery. Every prostate and surgery is different. My surgeon tells me he thinks he left me in pretty good shape to eventually get my erections back. A lot of the surgeries happen on older guys who didn’t get good erections pre-surgery, so sparing erection nerves is not an issue in these surgeries, but my surgeon knew that was not where I was pre-surgery.

After even nerve-sparing surgery, the nerves at the base of the prostate take a long time to heal so they are functional again. All the literature I read said figure a minimum of 12 months, maybe 18 months if at all. Here is what I have observed.

1st three months: My penis just sat there, about 2 inches long. If I worked at it long enough I could stimulate myself into an orgasm, but that was accompanied by a flow of urine which was more than disconcerting to say the least. My penis remained soft through all of this, and barely over 2 inches long.

4th month. Occasionally I would lie in bed and wake up thinking I was starting to feel some real sexual tension in my penis again. I would stimulate myself and started doing measurements, and discovered my erect penis was pushing 4 inches. By the way, erect penis measurement is not an exact science, and it partly depends on how much you push skin back at the groin to take the measurement.

6th month (now) I am starting to be able to have dry orgasms that are not accompanied by significant urine flow start to finish. Each week as I experiment some more I keep feeling just a bit more tension in the grown area. My penis still does not get to a place that I would call “hard” but it does feel quite pleasant. And the orgasms seem to be getting stronger, little by little. My ruler says that at my best right now, and, interestingly, immediately post- not pre-orgasm, I could be up to 4 ½ inches. I just read a study that claims the average male erect penis length is 5.6 inches. If that is the case I only have a bit more than an inch to go to be at least “average” again. My chances of becoming a record breaker is nill, but then I never was that anyway. I’m thinking more along the lines of something that looks neat semi-erect in a Seobean or Aqux, and that should potentially be much more doable.
I want to also say that still have quite a ways to go, a minimum of 6-12 months, when I hope this will really start to come together, but for now, I am on track, I think.

You guys may not fully appreciated it, but your posts of photos and stories have been very useful in my post-surgical recovery, and for those I am grateful. Come to think of it, I need to locate one of those rotating vibrators like that cameraman in the Japanese Speedo video had. I suspect that would be useful therapy for me.

Sebbie

[sebbie]

That was rather fun. I was getting bored with my stationary rowing this afternoon so I decided to try something new. Off went my little Gildan tighty whitey briefs, and on went a patterned cotton Joe Boxer thong, size SM
The thong fits snug enough so that the back cinches up between my buttocks. With every stroke of the rowing machine, it tugs tighter and pulls on the pouch and the contents therein. What an interesting sensation. Needless to say, my rowing has been going by much faster this afternoon. I love the feel of the thong as it tugs and pulls in a lot of interesting ways, something new with every rowing stroke!

I am headed off to do some more rowing...as they say, make your exercise enjoyable if at all possible.

[sebbie]

As you all know by now, I have been using my collection of suits as important "therapy" in terms of getting myself back after prostate surgery that happened in early February, now just over 7 months ago. The research I read on this is that if I am going to get my erections back at all there is a long recovery period of at least 12 and maybe 18 months out. I need to periodically run "tests" to see if I am making progress or not.

Last night's test was done with one of my most favorite Seobean suits, one that is almost impossibly tiny and tight. Clearly blood flow is starting to return to my penis. I'm feeling a special tension and tightness in my penis when I am in the Seobean that was not there even a few months ago. I am starting to have a much nicer visible bulge than before as well, and was able to have a nice-feeling orgasm too.

I did a quick post-orgasm measurement and I measured out at 4 3/4 inches. My penis at the peak still does not get firm enough for penetration, but the sensations I am feeling are much more like pre surgery. My reading right now is the average erect penis size is actually only about 5.6 inches. I think I have about an inch to go. 5 3/4 inches would essentially be a full recovery. I'm hoping that will happen sometime in the next 12 months.

At this point my orgasms are completely dry with no semen or urine. But they otherwise feel basically the same as pre-surgery.

Still having issues with a short squirt of urine in the initial arousal stages, pre-surgery this would have been the point where I would be precumming a lot. A towel is useful for collecting most of this BEFORE getting into the Seobean. Actually I am still precumming as my cowpers gland is still intact, but the prostate is no longer there to quickly seal off the urine flow so the short squirt of urine quickly washes away the gooey precum. I am watching this all closely, and hoping also that this will improve over time so I can go back to the precumming I enjoyed so much as an especially enjoyable activity pre-surgery.

I am also pleased to report than other that this one issue with urine flow I no longer have any significant issues with incontinence in other instances, in particular no problem any more leaking urine as my erection proceeds past the early arousal stage such as it is now occurring. And the orgasms are back to being really fun not just so-so. And I am looking forward to further continuing improvements. I have a few Viagra pills to try to see if they help in getting a turgid erection, but they are so costly that I am waiting a bit more before trying them to get the natural healing a little further along, since I am sure I am making progress over time without the pills.

To all of you out there who enjoy getting aroused and erect in a skimpy suit, this is not something to be ashamed or embarrassed about. Rather think of it as a great gift and something you should regularly take advantage of. On a 0-10 scale of "different" arousal circumstances this one gets maybe a "2". I am actually happy that I can run these tests and don't have to deal with issues related to a partner at least not during my recovery period. Absolutely safe too, no one ever got anyone pregnant nor got an STD of any type getting off in a suit!

Enjoy yourself whenever you can!
Sebbie

[Byron]

Sounds good on the whole Sebbie but watch the Viagra - have surgeons said anything about not raising BP for a while?

[sebbie]

there are lots of potential side effects which is part of the reason I have not dove in. But my urologist will want a report back on the effects so I do need to run the experiment before my next urology appt not till Nov.

[sebbie]

So I picked out one of my favorite classic pairs of thong underwear, a black 2x(ist) that is no longer being sold. That one always excites me very easily into precumming because it cinches up almost excruciatingly tight againt the perineum area, puching all my male parts front and forward. In the pre-surgery days I would be precumming even before I got it on.

What happens now is I get out of my white briefs and I immediately shoot a short stream of urine, which I conveniently collect with a handy towel, before I even get myself into the wonderful thong. Once this is over I pull on the thong, and I immediately notice that now the liquid is primarily precum not urine. I kick back and enjoy myself making the situation tough to deal with by pulling over the thong a little white Bike jock. I'm still precumming.

Then over that I pull on a pair of classic blue, yellow and red compression shorts dating probably from the late 80s. These are both slick and really tight fitting. The neat part is I get a nice penis bulge at this point, with a small damp spot on the shorts right at the tip. This is almost like the olden (aka pre-surgival days) The bulge isnt as large as it once was but it is there...

Things are coming along in a lot of different ways. I am curious if the urine flow that starts the precumming will gradually disappate over time. The tricky part technically is that the prostate used to shut off the urethra almost immediately after the cowpers started oozing, but now I no longer have a prostate.

The intense pressure on the perineum from the snug little thong cord still feels really great, prostate or not, and one of these litle experiences in life that no male should miss out on! I highly recommend experimenting with this to see how your body behaves in such an intense situation. Its unlike anything I have experienced from a swim brief. I am starting to master having sexual fun post prostate surgery. Most of the stuff that I thought was way fun before surgery is still way fun, but maybe in a bit different way.

Sebbie

[sebbie]

I checked the pouch of the 2x(ist) thong, and it was overflowing with gooey precum from the cowpers. Crystal clear, sticky, viscous. Apparently any urine is thin enough to pass right through but the precum stays. I'm gonna be fine guys, I'm gonna be fine. Have you precummed lately? :-)


Sebbie

[sebbie]

Well, to day I'm on the verge of hitting 5 inches max. My little suit arrived today http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-Boy-ON-T...em1 c447695f1

and that is what did it I'm sure.

Swimwear as rehab therapy! Oh well, if it works it works!

I need to talk to my surgeon about all of this. I'm under an inch of where I was pre-surgery. Slow but consistent gains from week to week. That is useful medical information for sure,

Sebbie