Injection technique recommendation

My surgeon's office instructed me to inject at the 3 o'clock or 9 o'clock position, with the needle entering horizontally to place the needle into the corpus cavernosum. That worked ok, but was a bit painful for me.

I read Dr. Mulhall's book (see link in my signature). He suggests injecting at the 2 o'clock or 10 o'clock position, with the needle entering at a downward 45-degree angle to place the needle into the corpus cavernosum. His reasoning is that the top portion of the penis is the least sensitive, and therefore less painful for injections.

I switched to Dr. Mulhall's approach, and I fully agree that it is easier and less painful to inject this way.

[ Note: It is very important to keep firm pressure on the injection site for 3 full minutes, even if no bleeding occurs. ]

-Gedman

Gedman,

Hi. I'm sorry to say, what are you talking about?? I'm in the 1st grade with advance Prostate Cancer!! Please....go real slow as I think growing up, I fell of my dad's pickup truck!!

Thanks,

Dave in Bartlett, TN

It's confusing alright. I guess you keep trying till you see what works for you. I have tried 3 attempts unsuccessfully so far. The last dose was better but not quite hard yet. I'm hoping this next attempt at .35 will work. One question I have is, when I first got my initial shot from the Uro, blood came into the syringe when injected and I swear he told me that this is what to look for. Of course I was very nervous at the time and maybe misunderstood him. Maybe he said this is not what you want ? So far in my attempts, there has been no blood. Thanks for any advice.

Donald,

If you are a marvel of manual dexterity you can pull the plunger out slightly before you push it in. You want to be injecting into the blood-filled chambers inside the spongy erectile tissues and if you can suck a bit of blood out that means you are in the right spot. Occasionally, you may hit a spot of fibrosis or scarified tissue that is outside of any chamber, or you may miss the corpus cavernosus altogether, and you don't want to inject in those spots as it won't work very well and it may cause further scarification. This is easier for your doctor to do than for you because he has more experience and because jiggling the needle doesn't hurt him any.

Peter,

Thanks. You're a great teacher.

Dave

Sunshine,

The choices seem to be "tragic" and "funny." I can argue for both but funny seems better for our purposes here.

Approximately half of the slang words in existence have a least one sense where they mean penis. Junk, I think, refers to male genitalia as a whole, and not just to the schwanzstucker. I'm not sure because I am too old -- I think it is a term that modern teenagers use and my role as a crusty oldster is merely to disapprove of it.

The initial drawing of blood is optional unless a man starts to develop problems with scarification and even then you can usually tell when you've hit the wrong spot because the plunger on the syringe is difficult to depress.

Don,

Happy, Happy, Happy means fun, fun, fun!