Penile length after surgery

Lapilot, yeah a week with a catheter will do that to ya.

Please do be aware that "nerve sparing" technique does not preclude nerve damage.

Trailguy,

Great point! Makes a lot of sense.

Kinda like when you swim in cold water and the nerves cause things to shrink up (remember the Seinfeld episode where George discusses the cold water "shrinkage factor" ... lol). Any how, as I understand what you have written, for some guys a certain nerve may have been injured during RP and this is causing a permenant shrinkage factor.

This is another reason for using a well trained and experienced surgeon. I understand that removing the nerves from the prostate is like peeling a wet tissue from the surface of an orange .... takes skill. I am guessing there is no way to remove all of the nerves without damaging some.

alephnull said...
The two points take time to take effect, in my case it was immediately after surgery.

I had this thought and experience as well.

I sometimes think that they give us those responses sometimes because they think it might open up claims of malpractice against them. Pretty stupid, as I'd never go into a court of law and swear I was smaller.

But the vast majority of just want to know what's happened or will happen. We are pretty much resigned to our evolving state.

Google found this article:
www.menshealth.com/health/penis-shrinkage-after-prostate-surgery
alephnull might be partly correct but after one year the base of the penis have return to its original position, according to the article.

The scientists measured the stretched penis length—a proxy of length when erect—of 102 patients set to undergo a radical prostatectomy before, 10 days after, and then at 3, 6, 9, 12, 18, and 24 months following the procedure.

The participants’ penis lengths were shortest 10 days after the procedure, where they lost an average of 19 millimeters, or three-quarters of an inch, in length from their baseline measurements. Afterwards, the participants’ penises slowly rebounded. By the time they reached the 12-month benchmark, their penis lengths were not significantly different from before they had their prostatectomies.

Previously, animal studies suggested that the penis shortening could be due to damage to the cavernosal nerve in the penis, or structural alterations as a result of oxygen deficiencies during the procedure, the researchers wrote.

But now, they think something else might be playing a role in the penis shortening. MRI tests showed that the end of the participants’ urethras actually moved inward to the pelvis after the prostate removal. This takes the bulb, or the base of the penis, along with it, causing it to appear shorter.

Over the course of the year, though, the connective tissue holding the pelvic organs in place begins to loosen. As a result, the urethra—and the base of the penis—return to their original position. And that’s likely why penis lengths don’t seem to be any shorter one year after the procedure.