1st successful Bimix injection

Lets hope that if you need Sudafed, it works!!! Mine didn't, ER visit (read NO FUN) was needed. I'm glad it worked for you, definitely a milestone for you.
Randy

Good going, Bootheel.

I have had a few 80% erections but many misses where I do not get it into the target area completely or at all.

Visited urologist again today....I am his "most popular" patient...lol...and had him "supervise" while I injected.  He liked my technique (the one he showed me before that I explained here to Piano and JamesC) but said he thinks I need a longer needle.  He told me that in his opinion, the primary reason I am having inconsistent results is that with the 5/16 needle, I would (again, his opinion) need to execute the injection perfectly re. angle and depth of injection for it to always reach the cavernosa area.  Any slight angle problem or lack of "hubbing it" as he termed it and I am likely to come up short of target.

So.....might try another time or two with the 5/16 to see if I can "perfect" it, but at least I now know that my basic technique is "acceptable."  Might go ahead and bite the  bullet and use the 1/2 inchers.  Anxious to hit the mark consistently so I can then figure out how much bimix or trimix or which formula thereof works best for me.  As my urologist says, I could inject the whole bottle without success if I do not inject it where it is supposed to go....lol.

Bootheel, pushing it in ALL the way and keeping in deep is what my urologist termed "hubbing it."

I can "hub it" ok initially, but when I move my hand to depress the plunger, I think I let up on it some...and it seems to be right at the edge of the desired target, but not quite in there all the way.....as I feel some resistance when I plunge.

Your concern about the 1/2 inch is shared by me.  No way I need the entire 1/2 inch, and stopping short is easier said than done, since I usually just push in until it stops.

Do you plan to try 0.4ml or 0.45 to see if you can attain 100%?  James, Biker and others have indicated that they are now at that most desirable?

Will keep you posted on my trials....thanks...DanMan

I used Bimix for the 1st time last night and I couldn't be happier.  I was prescribed Trimix by my Urologist and have been fighting with it since Nov.  Although, I obtained a proper erection with .325 ML, the stinging afterwards was getting me down.  On my recent follow-up visit, I asked my Dr. to change me to Bimix.  I also changed pharmacies to University Compounding Pharmacy in San Diego (I think they are a chain operation).  I think that the pharmacy plays a part in success since they have more experience in making up Bimix and Trimix and the ingredients are fresher due to quicker turnover.  The first pharmacy seemed confused by the Rx and one of the ingredients was going out of date.  They also didn't have the smaller guage needles and tried to get me to use a 27 guage, OUCH!  I was able to get 30 guage needles at another pharmacy.

I also changed to the technique suggested by James the Moderator of plumping the penis and applying a restriction device prior to injecting (I use a BD autoinjector with 1/2in. 30 guage needle and 1/4 in. spacer to shorten the needle depth to 3/8 inch).  I handle my penis to obtain a partial erection and then use a rubber band to hold the blood in.  I then inject at a 90 degree angle to either side-alternating to the right or left side every other time.  I then massage back and forth for several minutes and then remove the rubber band (I never had a pump and the rings that come with them).

My erection was 95% of pre-prostate surgery hardness and felt like old times.  After sex, I didn't have any pain and the erection went down slowly and was gone approximately an hour and a half after injection.  The prescription was written for a .5ML dosage so it took slightly more than the Trimix.  I could experiment with less but I'm not going to since my insurance covers most of the cost.  My only concern now, is that I may need  higher doses over time as mentioned by others on this forum.

Good luck to any others who may be considering changing from Trimix to Bimix to eliminate the pain cause by the PG.     

Klez,

First welcome this this forum and you will find a lot of great brothers here on our individual PC journeys. 

I have been using TRIMIX injections for 2 weeks and still experimenting with the right dosage (trying .45ml tonight) I have had no pain so far like you describe but I see you are using a 28ga syringe. I use a 30 ga insulin 1ml syringe prescribed by my URO. After doing my research in this forum and other sites I found many complaints about pain from 28ga that went away with 30ga or smaller needles. I asked my URO about Trimix vs Bimix and he told me he had better luck and less pain complaints with the Trimix.

Best of luck to you,

Terry

Klez,

I use 1/2" needle which seems to be the most common. The pain maybe the difference between Bi and Trimix.

As to the question about orgasm. In the 3rd week after my surgery my URO had me on daily Cialis for 4 weeks before we started the injections. He told that even if I didn't get an erection good enough for sex to have my wife stimulate me or to do self stimulation 3 to 4 times a week for blood flow, The Cialis had no effect on me but a couple of times while "self stimulating" I did have dry orgasms that were very different than before PC but very intense and pleasurable. I have not quite found the right dosage for the TRIMIX and have only gotten to maybe 70% hard but I loose most of it when I get into bed from Venus leakage. On the advice from a friend in this forum I made a trip to the local Adult toy store for a cock ring to stop the Venus leakage and a vacuum pump to start off with before I inject, This is what several injection guys in HW call "plump and prick"  To make a long story short I can not comment on Orgasms with Trimix injections yet, but am hoping that tonight will be a different story

Venus leakage is actually spelled veinous leakage. This is leakage of the veinous or return blood out of the penis, resulting in loss of erection. Those who have had surgery and either damaged nerve bundles or removed bundles suffer this most times. The nerve bundles are closely attached to the prostate gland and easily damaged during the gland removal. This results in the veinous valves in the penis not receviing the proper nerve signal to close off and hold the blood in the penis, hence the loss of erection. It may take weeks, months or years for the nerve bundles to repair themselves and work again, and they may never do so in some cases. That is why the injections work for loss or erection. The drugs act on the veinous valves, chemically triggering the valves to close resulting in a firm erection.

Difficulty in achieving orgasm using injections is a common complaint here.

As to taste, there should be no relation between the used of injections and a taste during oral sex. Done properly, the drug is inside the penis- the cavities that fill with blood, therefore none is external to be transferred. Use of the Muse or Trimix gel , which require external or ureatheral application could transfer the taste, but not injections, if done properly.

Thanks James,

It really does seem the bimix leaks occasionally, mainly when I am above (and gravity causes drainage?). I'm sure there's none external, it comes on after a while suddenly, and my wife has even gotten the taste two days later. Can some bimix not make it into the corpus cavernosum and be in the corpus spongiosum and possibly leak into and out through the urethra? (I say this because one of the times, the needle wasn't fully inserted for part of the time I was injecting.)

The complaints re: orgasm probs with injections: Do they resolve with time? (My surgery was robotic with nerve sparing with no complications). The weird part is I am finished as if I had come (and with a little sense of release as well).

Congrats on getting back in the saddle. Life just gets better for here buddy.

Cajun jeff