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Posted 10/7/2007 3:07 AM (GMT 0)
Natural erections after RP? Any experiences please? Thanks, Geon Post edited to add title to thread : ) Post Edited By Moderator (bluebird) : 10/6/2007 9:29:20 PM (GMT-6)
Posted 10/7/2007 7:05 AM (GMT 0)
I am taking small (5mg) doses of Levitra a couple of times a week. My urologist suggests I could stop altogether, but its a bit like a security blanket for me. If I haven't taken it for a couple of days (which means that it must be out of my system) there are times when I wake up with a natural erection, so they definately are possible after RP.
Posted 10/8/2007 3:35 AM (GMT 0)

Thank you to all for your personal inputs.

Please keep up with your progress as I plan to do so as well.  Trimix starts tomorrow, I'll keep you posted.  Can't wait for erections as they have not been for 10 months.  Last time for normal sex,  my wife and I climaxed at exactly the same time and that is my fondest memory of so many months ago.  I look forward to a moment like that in the near future.

Good luck,

Geon

Posted 10/8/2007 1:10 PM (GMT 0)
Geon

I was lucky and was able to achieve natural erections after surgery with-in the first 30 days and to date I never had to use any medications it came back on it's own.

Norskie
Posted 10/9/2007 7:01 PM (GMT 0)

Ok Dude. I've heard about Erections five minutes after surgery with the catheter still in. Erections five days after the catheter out. Erections while sleeping within a week of surgery and these are real remarkable erections stories. I don't know for sure if they are true or not I wasn't there. Anyway, if you don't have a **** star hard on within a month of surgery don't get your dawber down. Most people have had the nerves damaged and it takes a while to recover and for them to repair. You can still have alot of sexual fun without the big bone if you have a caring patient loving partner. My first natural erections suitable for interrcourse was 10 months after surgery and have been rising to the occasion since August 12, 2007 yeah Just posting this so if you don't experience the big one right away you don't get discouraged and depressed over it. Many of the guys on this forum have taken at least a year and sometimes two years to recover. Remember your body was majorly invaded and it has suffered a major injury to its system. God bless you man hang in there thangs will look up and get better every day.

58 years old Davinci 10/12/2007 last psa 0.02 GO DUCKS!!!!!!!!!!

Posted 10/10/2007 2:56 PM (GMT 0)
a close friend of mine called me yesterday. He is 18 months out of surgery and he reported that just in the last week or two he was able to acheive a normal, healthy erection without assistance. He also told me that taking the trimix has caused permanent damage to his penis. He has a kink in it now, I think he said the condition was called "perone" or something like that. So, be careful out there, and be patient.
Posted 10/10/2007 3:52 PM (GMT 0)
Jefnef,

The condition your friend has is called Peyronies or curvature of the penis. Knowing and adhereing to the proper method of injecting is a prevention for Peyronies. While there is no clear reason known why Peyronies occurs the general belief is it is due to trauma to the penis.

Tamu
Posted 10/10/2007 6:11 PM (GMT 0)
Back to ALMOST normal activity by week four no Drug involvement of any kind works just fine a tad different however and not quite as firm.
Few accidents but no pads. By week five much better almost back to normal. One year mark AS told by my Doctor “You will be as good as before surgery NO BETTER but as good “I can’t say quite as good as I mentioned it is a bit different shooting blanks an all but baring that I’m quite Pleased!
Just a little Nervous about PSA Good Luck ! TOM ( :

54 on Surgery Day: DaVinci Duarte CA
Pre Surgery PSA: 3.4 one year span 8.0
Post Surgery PSA Undetectable April 06-September 07 ....... OCT 07 .1
4 week re test in process ) :
Posted 10/13/2007 3:07 AM (GMT 0)
our experience after one year - still have to use Viagra to get an erection worthy of intercourse but it's not as hard as it was pre-surgery. we're looking forward to a "natural" erection sometime in the future. be patient and best wishes! kat
Posted 10/14/2007 7:12 PM (GMT 0)
just a quick note, I am 4 weeks post surgery and still waiting for activity. Glad some of you are doing well keep thinking of the rest of us.
PSA: 4.9
Biopsy Gleason: 6
Surgery: 9/18/07
Post surgery Gleason: 6
Posted 10/15/2007 1:22 AM (GMT 0)
I'm 1 year post RRP and have had some natural erections. As someone else mentioned they have been in the early morning hours. Must be something about the ol morning wood that does the trick. Otherwise usually need 100 mg viagra to get a usable erection.

Good Luck
KW
Posted 10/16/2007 12:51 AM (GMT 0)
Lots of success stories in this thread, in the early days and weeks after surgery, even. Makes me wonder if/what the doctor did wrong in my case, where he said I bled a lot which will slow the healing.

I am almost at 15 months now post surgery. No natural erections. I am being treated for Peyronie's in addition to ED. For that I am on 10 mg of Cialis daily. I get fleeting erections right after stimulation that stay semi-hard; good enough for interesting **********, but not good enough for intercourse without using a vacuum device. At time of activity, I sometimes alternate the Cialis with Viagra or Levitra. No real difference.
Posted 10/16/2007 3:42 PM (GMT 0)

Hi:

I am 42 years old had a RP by Divinci four months ago. everything is good nerve were spared, fully continent. But is still have ED. Get partial but not enough. Been on therpy by injections and Viagra every day 5mg. will start Pump in few days. Looks like I am behind from most of the people on the post. Any Suggestions. Orgasims are there! love to hear form people. I was told I year but looks like people have been having them as soon as two weeks!

Posted 10/18/2007 10:42 PM (GMT 0)
My surgery took all of one nerve and some of the other, don't know if natural erection is eveer going to happen for me. Have tried Viagra and Lavitra and nothing yet. sometimes will appear to get thirty % but that is nothing to shout about or is it? Will be fitted for pump in the coming week so we'll see how that goes. Considering all suggestions, Uncle Dan
Posted 10/19/2007 1:36 AM (GMT 0)
hey chas036 - why don't you have sex in the shower? then it won't matter what's dripping. it's a shame to not take advantage of that erection. :) kat

I don't think there is any magic or anything special anyone can do about ED. just take the medications, try different therapies, and be patient. I know that some men never get full erections again, others do after a short time, others do after a couple of years. Jeff and I are being patient and hoping that by the time we celebrate our second year post-surgery, things will be better.
Posted 3/26/2018 2:33 PM (GMT 0)
What I found very interesting in this old tread is that natural erections were coming faster then this days with improvement in surgical techniques and high levels of experience with DaVinci robots. I see in this tread reported as early as in first month post op with many reporting it within first 6 months.
I am wondering why this trend is not in upwards curve this days.
What urologist are doing differently this days from then?
In my case, at 17 months post op with bilateral nerves spared, I still did not experience anything spontaneously at all. I did penile rehab using Cialis and Viagra with no succes at all and I am still using them. VED never produced usable erection for me. TRIMIX and BIMIX did produce erection in 7/10 ratio but I lost lots of length of 2+ inches and was not able to recover a bit of that.
What was wrong in y case, looks like unsolved mystery?
Will I ever be able to experience anything spontaneous in the future becomes more and more question with every month passing by.
It looks like general consensus here and at other forums: What is recovered by 18 months it is with minimal improvement after that. For those that are at 60-70% by 18 months, they won’t have impaired sex life in the future. For us, at lower end of success, no future in sight. Impairment stays indefinitely.
To some, life is mother, to others stepmother.
MK
Posted 3/26/2018 8:14 PM (GMT 0)
I use a low dose Cialis a few times a week and have had no issues. I have gone without it for a time when my prescription ran out and still okay so I could probably do without it. Like someone else mentioned, it is a bit of a "security blanket".
Posted 3/26/2018 10:18 PM (GMT 0)
I am one of the lucky ones, I was experiencing night time erections while I still had the catheter in. I have to admit it was 100%, but it was very doable. Two years later I had salvage radiotherapy, and I still am able to have a workable erection. BTW, I had both nerves spared during robotic surgery.
Posted 3/26/2018 11:32 PM (GMT 0)
It took almost exactly a year on meds, but I am now able to again have natural erections and that is after losing most the nerves on one side. But I also have an incredibly hot wife 9 years my junior yeah
Posted 3/27/2018 9:33 PM (GMT 0)
Had my open RP in 2008. Left nerves removed, right side left in place but heavily damaged. My original catheter was in for 63 days. I was getting regular errections while still on the cath, including orgasms. To this day, have never used any ED med or method. Dr. said it was a miracle, I believe him. Even after my blotched salvage radiation, no negative effect on errections. Just real lucky in that department
Posted 3/28/2018 2:16 AM (GMT 0)
Hello Purgatory! Good to see you post.

On topic, I went about 1 year with no response on pills. I started trimix which jumpstarted recovery, switched back to pills which then worked, and tapered off everything eventually. No assistance needed for several years now.

Explorer

Post Edited (Explorer59) : 3/27/2018 8:25:30 PM (GMT-6)

Posted 3/28/2018 5:21 AM (GMT 0)
This is the kind of BS post that had me thinking that nerves were to be spared. My URO said he had to cut wide and take all my nerves. He said nothing was coming back. Injections caused sever pain. Also small case of pyronies. 5 Degree bend to the right. Implant scheduled next month. How much of your nerves were removed??
Posted 4/1/2018 4:34 PM (GMT 0)
We're all different. I've been lucky and there are many of us, so there is hope for all. I had an erection with the catheter in (weird feeling) and no issues since. Four years on I still do my kegels every day and I make sure that I regularly test my "staying power".

Stick with it - the body gets brutalised so needs time to recover. Don't put extra stress on yourself....it will only make life harder (but not "it" harder).
Posted 4/1/2018 6:05 PM (GMT 0)
Whether we like it or not, PC treatment--regardless of whether we cook it, freeze it, or extract it--is messing with a very fragile, very tightly spaced, and very complex part of our male anatomy. What should really surprise us is not how many men have significant impairment of function--but how many of us are fortunate enough to NOT have those major impairments.

Again, I think there is a huge failure on the part of the medical establishment here. How many men are told (without asking!) that there is potential risk of loss of function with whatever treatment is chosen? (And how many actual pay attention and understand what is being said?)
Posted 4/1/2018 11:38 PM (GMT 0)

halbert said...
Whether we like it or not, PC treatment--regardless of whether we cook it, freeze it, or extract it--is messing with a very fragile, very tightly spaced, and very complex part of our male anatomy. What should really surprise us is not how many men have significant impairment of function--but how many of us are fortunate enough to NOT have those major impairments.

Again, I think there is a huge failure on the part of the medical establishment here. How many men are told (without asking!) that there is potential risk of loss of function with whatever treatment is chosen? (And how many actual pay attention and understand what is being said?)

VERY TRUE !!
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