The Bathmate is a different animal from the others, in that it is supposedly a male enhancement device and is not really meant for intercourse. You generally need to be in the bath or shower to use it (hence the name), so unless you're gonna do the deed there it's not practical for sex, more's the pity since it is about the most effective Vacuum Erectile Device I've tried so far.
It's a big bullet-shaped device with a domed top and an "alligator" flexible rubber-like gasket at the bottom. You fill it with water and then push it back against your body, which forces water out a one-way valve in the dome, creating suction. You wait a minute until the suction draws blood into the penis (and thus the suction lessens), then you push it back again to force more water out and increase the suction, repeating the cycle every so often until you can't increase the suction any more. You're supposed to leave the device on for a maximum of 15 minutes (making for a danged long shower, sometimes) in three sessions of five minutes each. The result was that it made my weenie about as big as it's ever been since I developed Peyronie's, and almost hard enough for penetration, despite my severe ED. Did it increase my size? Hard to say: as I continued to use it over several months, the graduated measurements marked on the side of the cylinder did increase by about 2.5 centimeters, but I don't know if that was a real increase or just my becoming more adept at applying the suction, thus collapsing the seal tighter and forcing the head farther into the cylinder. My wife, however, remarked that when I use Edex to get a real, full erection, my little man seems thicker, for some reason, so....
Still, whether or not it really increased my size and/or helped partially cure my Peyronie's disease, it gave me a great sense of fullness that lasted for quite a while when I also used a cock ring to keep it engorged after removing the pump. If felt so good that I more often than not, um, pleasured myself, which made the shower even LONGER! Dang.... After about 8 months of use, however, it appears the seal is failing, so I can't get the suction to work very well, even with gel lubricant as a seal, so I'll have to buy a new or different one to continue. Hmph! (Update: I bought another one and after a while it developed the same problem. Cleaning the valve helped the problem some, but did not cure it. *sigh*
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Monday, December 7, 2015
Tuesday, February 24, 2015
Follow up to previous post about penis enlargement devices...
Well, it seems that The Little Woman and I have somehow gotten into the habit of making love only on Holidays (although she is a good sport and diddles me with her magic fingers once or twice a week, and the occasional blow job. I don't get hard enough for penetration, but I do kind of enlarge enough to make oral pleasure possible, and I try to please her whenever she'll let me). Thus, the day after Valentine's we managed to do the do with the help of Edex. The curvature of my little monster seems to have improved a bit after 5 weeks of using the penis pump and a PTT device, but nothing dramatic, so it was tres awkward still. We tried a number of positions, her on top, me on top, her on the bed with me standing behind her (which seems to work the best to get the motion going, although it doesn't produce enough friction to make me come), and we kept going until we were both exhausted! We're old, y'know. After we collapsed on the bed, she very graciously finished me off by hand.... So, the jury is still out on whether VED and PTT actually work. My stretched penile length (SPL), however, has noticeably improved, for whatever that's worth. I was always more of a grower than a show-er, so it is nice to have some hanging meat, even if it is more or less non-functional.
UP DATE: As time went on, my love wand seemed to have straightened out quite a bit, although intercourse with The Little Woman was complicated by her post-menopausal dryness and a general lack of interest-- supposeldly up to 85% of women suffer a lack of desire after the change. She still kept me happy orally and manually, and quite lovingly so.... Anyway, my curvature improved to near normal proportions, although my length was still somewhat reduced. :-( ...I mentioned to my urologist's PA that the PTT device seems to have worked, and he said that there are some suspicions that the stretching exercises they recommend as part of Xiaflex treatment may be as effective as the drug itself.
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Penile Curvature- WTH?
So I dunno if it was the bargain basement penis pump or the Edex, but my member has recently developed an upward curve to it. She had trouble getting it inserted at first, but once in, we didn't have any problems. I haven't been able to test it again because She fell and was injured a while back and has not completely healed yet, thus She doesn't have much interest in doin' the do, although she has cheerfully given me fellatio a couple times in the last two weeks-- I think she's still staving off the beast because a full Ironman session takes so much time and effort. Anyway, I always had a little sideways curve due to unequal filling when the Little Man got excited (the 2nd wife used to call me "J-Man" because it would look like the letter J until it began to become fully erect) but this is definitely different. I googled Peyronie's Disease, but I can't feel any sort of fibrous tissue in there when I palpate it myself.... I dunno, I've stopped using the pump for now. Just wish I could use the Edex again to see what's going to happen.
Tuesday, September 4, 2012
Cialis vs. Viagra vs. Levitra vs. Staxyn vs. Other Stuff
(Revised 11/24/2022) I was going to list the various treatments as I experienced them, but most folks probably just want comparison info about them. Here is what little I know from my own experience:
Cialis
Cialis
Pro: Effects last up to 36 hours (although with me it seemed a little shorter than that). The doc told me Cialis is only officially rated for one session of intercourse during that period, but I experienced repeated erections. My late wife and I once made love five (5) times in 24 hours when we were first together. Cialis made spontaneity much easier-- I could take it Saturday morning and be good to go through Sunday noon. I've also tried the daily dose Cialis, which is a small dose tablet you take every day, but it didn't work for me. If only it had, it would almost be like never having ED, I think. Sigh....
Con: It completely quit working for me after about 5 years, dunno why. Even when it was working its best, the erection Cialis produced was more "springy" than hard, and if there was a break (like when My Lady has to go and pee before we start, which is pretty often) during which the erection would subside, it often took awhile to get it started again. And Cialis usually worked well only when I took it on an empty stomach. Any food in there at all would delay things or keep them from happening all together. On the other hand, alcoholic beverages did not seem to affect my performance with Cialis as it does with the other drugs. The bottom line for me is, if it works for you, Cialis is the way to go. When I was taking it, it was the same price as Viagra and Levitra (although Stendra has an introductory deal that is pretty good), but it worked for so much longer....
Viagra
Pro: The MacDaddy of oral ED drugs, the big V almost never fails to produce a rock-hard erection, sometimes almost too hard-- when I tried doggy-style with my "tiny giny" second wife, it hurt her inside and she constricted my member so much that it hurt when I ejaculated and I then bled a little from the end of my penis. Some men, too, have told me that the expansion makes them feel so inflated and sensitive that they have difficulty controlling when they climax, often leading to a great but short-lived experience. Viagra is more fast-acting than some of the others, sometimes in as little as 20 minutes, although for me peak potency usually occurred at about an hour and fifteen minutes after taking the pill. Viagra seems unaffected by food intake, although the package insert warns that taking it immediately after a high-fat meal can delay its effects.
Con: Side effects-- Viagra makes my nose feel so stuffy I have to breathe through my mouth, and often my upper lip tingles. There is also a lack of spontaneity because, although its effects supposedly last 4 hours, I had trouble getting started after about two and a half hours. On the other hand, if I got to have sex as soon as it took effect, I could usually perform a second or third time during that 4 hours, and on some occasions when we made love at the end of the night I was still good to go the next morning. I dunno if the stuff lingers in your system while you sleep or what, but it was quite a pleasant surprise that next day, more than 7 or 8 hours later. The final Con for me is that alcohol intoxication usually kills its effects entirely, so no drunken debauchery on Viagra for me, waaaah! (UPDATE: Big V no longer works for me-- see later post on Viagra Resistance.)
Levitra
Pro: It works fairly quickly, and the effects supposedly last 6 hours, though I can't verify that-- but on occasion Levitra has given me the same happy morning-after surprise that Viagra provides. Alcohol does not seem to affect Levitra as much as it does Viagra. One day last week, I took the pill in preparation for the big finale, only to get involved in an argument with My Love over something really stupid, after which we went to bed angry. I figured the pill was wasted and went to sleep. Some hours later I must have had a Levitra-boosted night-time erection, as I was awakened by her rolling me onto my back. She mounted me almost before I knew what was happening and rode me furiously until I exploded, after which she rose up off me, plopped onto her side of the bed without saying anything, and promptly went back to sleep. We never talked about the episode, and I sure as hell don't remember what the argument was about!
Con: Just like Cialis, for Levitra to work properly I had to take it on an empty stomach. There was some nasal stuffiness, too, although not as bad as with Viagra, but that's more of a nuisance than anything serious. But, eventually it, too, quit working for me.
Staxyn
Pro: This a new one to me. It has the same ED medicine as Levitra, but it is in the form of a peppermint-flavored tablet that you dissolve on your tongue. The package insert says it can be taken with or without food, so that may be an advantage over the food problems I had with Cialis and Levitra. The package insert also says that the delivery system gets more of the medicine into your system than the same dosage Levitra pill.
Con: It takes a long time to take effect, like 1 to 1.5 hours, although when it finally does come in, it does so spectacularly. The wife and I tried a sample of it, and she reached over and stroked me every so often to see if it was working yet, which had me really worked up emotionally by the time things started to happen. She finally got tired of waiting and at the first sign of firmness (about 50 minutes) we tried to initiate the lift-off before the launch sequence had been completed, so we kind of went off half-cocked, as it were.... I awoke several hours later, though, with some serious wood, and I'm talking teak or mahogany, not bamboo. By that time, though, My Lady was fast asleep. If anyone has a sure-fire tactful technique of waking the little woman up to the Angry Little Man without offending her, please let me know! As it was, I just had to go out into the workshop and hammer in some nails.... My problem with this one is that I needed to take two of them to get the full effect, and since they only have the one size dose, it would get quite expensive for me to use it very often.
Stendra
I managed to get my family doctor to prescribe Stendra for me. It is marketed as faster-acting, like in 15 minutes. Because I'm also taking Diltiazem for heart rate/blood pressure, I'm supposed to be limited to 50mg of Stendra because the Diltiazem slows the metabolizing of Stendra so that some side effects may last for 8 or 9 hours. (And this may make it slower-acting as well.) Unfortunately, 50 mg had no effect for me, and neither did 100 mg. At the maximum dose for other people, 200 mg, however, things worked quite nicely, although it took 30 minutes or more to take effect. Its effects are similar to Viagra, and I did get a REALLY stuffy nose when I took it, so I'm not sure there's any advantage to Stendra, other'n the fact it's the only PDE5 inhibitor that still works for me. The manufacturer's website, Stendra.com offers a great coupon on your first 6 prescriptions, so it is worth a try. (Update: It quit working after a while, too.)
Levitra
Pro: It works fairly quickly, and the effects supposedly last 6 hours, though I can't verify that-- but on occasion Levitra has given me the same happy morning-after surprise that Viagra provides. Alcohol does not seem to affect Levitra as much as it does Viagra. One day last week, I took the pill in preparation for the big finale, only to get involved in an argument with My Love over something really stupid, after which we went to bed angry. I figured the pill was wasted and went to sleep. Some hours later I must have had a Levitra-boosted night-time erection, as I was awakened by her rolling me onto my back. She mounted me almost before I knew what was happening and rode me furiously until I exploded, after which she rose up off me, plopped onto her side of the bed without saying anything, and promptly went back to sleep. We never talked about the episode, and I sure as hell don't remember what the argument was about!
Con: Just like Cialis, for Levitra to work properly I had to take it on an empty stomach. There was some nasal stuffiness, too, although not as bad as with Viagra, but that's more of a nuisance than anything serious. But, eventually it, too, quit working for me.
Staxyn
Pro: This a new one to me. It has the same ED medicine as Levitra, but it is in the form of a peppermint-flavored tablet that you dissolve on your tongue. The package insert says it can be taken with or without food, so that may be an advantage over the food problems I had with Cialis and Levitra. The package insert also says that the delivery system gets more of the medicine into your system than the same dosage Levitra pill.
Con: It takes a long time to take effect, like 1 to 1.5 hours, although when it finally does come in, it does so spectacularly. The wife and I tried a sample of it, and she reached over and stroked me every so often to see if it was working yet, which had me really worked up emotionally by the time things started to happen. She finally got tired of waiting and at the first sign of firmness (about 50 minutes) we tried to initiate the lift-off before the launch sequence had been completed, so we kind of went off half-cocked, as it were.... I awoke several hours later, though, with some serious wood, and I'm talking teak or mahogany, not bamboo. By that time, though, My Lady was fast asleep. If anyone has a sure-fire tactful technique of waking the little woman up to the Angry Little Man without offending her, please let me know! As it was, I just had to go out into the workshop and hammer in some nails.... My problem with this one is that I needed to take two of them to get the full effect, and since they only have the one size dose, it would get quite expensive for me to use it very often.
Stendra
I managed to get my family doctor to prescribe Stendra for me. It is marketed as faster-acting, like in 15 minutes. Because I'm also taking Diltiazem for heart rate/blood pressure, I'm supposed to be limited to 50mg of Stendra because the Diltiazem slows the metabolizing of Stendra so that some side effects may last for 8 or 9 hours. (And this may make it slower-acting as well.) Unfortunately, 50 mg had no effect for me, and neither did 100 mg. At the maximum dose for other people, 200 mg, however, things worked quite nicely, although it took 30 minutes or more to take effect. Its effects are similar to Viagra, and I did get a REALLY stuffy nose when I took it, so I'm not sure there's any advantage to Stendra, other'n the fact it's the only PDE5 inhibitor that still works for me. The manufacturer's website, Stendra.com offers a great coupon on your first 6 prescriptions, so it is worth a try. (Update: It quit working after a while, too.)
Rugiet
I just did a new blog entry for this one on 11/20/2022-- look for it.
Papaverine, Edex, Caverject, Phentolamine: Bi-mix, Super Bi-mix, Tri-mix
These are all drugs you inject into the cavernosa of the penis, except that supposedly there's one form of Edex (Muse) that is a penile suppository (and I don't know anything about that particular product, sorry.) Papaverine was my first ED med and worked great, but the big drug companies don't make it anymore because it is no longer used for its primary purpose as a heart medicine. My doctor said it would be available from a compounding pharmacy, but after the terrible meningitis outbreak caused by conditions at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy as well as reports that my local one had been cited for unsafe conditions, I opted to go with Edex. Edex is DA BOMB-- see my later posts about it. Caverject is the same drug (Prostaglandin E1) as Edex, but the prepackaged syringe is kind of complicated to operate-- you put the needle on, then you have to adjust the plunger in a couple different ways to adjust the dose-- it's a whole thing. Bi-Mix is a combination of Papaverine and Phentolamine and Tri-Mix is a combination of all 3 drugs and it works quite well, although again, it has to come from a compounding pharmacy. I'm currently using Super Bi-mix, which is a stronger concentration of the first two drugs. I've tried Tri-mix, but the Prostoglandin makes my willy ache, so I stuck with the Super Bi-mix. I'm guessing this is likely the "proprietary formula" that Total Performance Medical sells to its patients. Total Performance Medical charges you something like $300 up front to be seen, and like I said, the drugs they prescribe are "proprietary", so you can only get them from TPM, and I never went for treatment so I dunno what the drug price is. The only cons for Edex are the expense (currently $160 for two doses, with my insurance) and initially having to experiment with the dosage so it works well but doesn't produce the infamous 4-hour erection. I had one of those, and didn't go to the hospital, which may be why I now have Peyronie's disease, although it didn't happen right after that occasion, and Peyronie's is actually fairly common with men my age. Then, too, Edex produces kind of a dull ache in my penis, but nothing too uncomfortable. Alas, I so wish for my old Papaverine: it made my little monster fat and hard as a rock for a consistent 1.5 hours. My new urologist convinced me to try Bi-mix, a combination of papaverine and phentolamine from a compounding pharmacy in Houston. It works better than Edex, doesn't produce the dull ache that Edex does, and it's a LOT cheaper-- $70 for enough for maybe 10 doses vs. $160 for only TWO doses of Edex. It's a much more natural-feeling erection, too.)
Penis Pumps, Cock Rings, and Other Scary Devices
I understand that they can be quite effective, especially when combined with a cock ring, which I did recently try. I'd had a couple of less than stellar erections, and at my regular visit to the urologist I mentioned this, since I was afraid that Viagra maybe wasn't going to work for me anymore (and eventually it didn't). He gave me samples of Levitra and Staxyn, listed above, and suggested a penis ring. Since the arteries into the penis are in the center of the organ and the veins out are toward the outside, a properly fitting ring can allow blood in while restricting its flow outward, keeping you harder longer (although it should be used for no more than 30 minutes, they say). The Levitra breathed new life into the little fella, though, and our next lovemaking session left us happily exhausted, making the cock ring unnecessary. Afterward she asked me what the cock ring was for, and when I told her it would make me harder and last longer she said "No, no, no...." for whatever reason. So I've been using the ring (hope this doesn't offend you) as a masturbatory aid so I can save the drugs for the real thing, and so far it's worked pretty well but not well enough to be a substitute for the drugs. It does kind of restrict the urethra a little bit, producing a high-velocity ejaculation similar to the effect of a Viagra overdose (see the "Viagra overdose and other no-nos" post). The other options I was given 'way back when were last-resort alternatives when nothing else would work: Penile implants, either a saline bladder inserted inside the cavernosa blood vessels that is then inflated with a little pump, or flexible, bendable plastic pieces the size of the cavernosa that either you slide into them (after an opening for them is made surgically), or which are completely implanted so you have to bend them upward to make an erection or downward to keep the little fella out of the way. I saw where one ED doctor who specializes in implants for transsexuals recommended the static bendable ones for his younger patients who are likely to be more sexually active, because they don't wear out as fast as the inflatable implants, which supposedly last up to 15 years, but it may be that they last that long because older folks don't use 'em as much..
(UPDATE, 03/13/2014: I may have to find out which implants are better-- see later posts about Peyronie's Disease. Sigh....)
ED 1000
A painless ultrasonic shock wave treatment that supposedly cures ED permanently in up to 95% of patients, it is available in medical clinics in Canada and the rest of the World, but is still in the investigational stage in the US but it becoming widely available anyway as of 2022.. It's been quite popular in the United Kingdom, because since they have socialized medicine, it saves the government money in the long run if they can more or less cure the patient's ED instead of continually buying drugs for him. I recently saw a small-scale study from Japan that kind of scaled back that 95% success rate to about 65%, but it WAS a really small sample of test subjects. The last I heard about price was $4000 for the full set of treatments in Canada, and you would have to stay there for a while if you don't live nearby-- You get 2 treatments a week for 3 weeks, then a 3 week break, then 2 treatments a week for 3 more weeks. Try Medispec.com for info-- they manufacture the device.
Papaverine, Edex, Caverject, Phentolamine: Bi-mix, Super Bi-mix, Tri-mix
These are all drugs you inject into the cavernosa of the penis, except that supposedly there's one form of Edex (Muse) that is a penile suppository (and I don't know anything about that particular product, sorry.) Papaverine was my first ED med and worked great, but the big drug companies don't make it anymore because it is no longer used for its primary purpose as a heart medicine. My doctor said it would be available from a compounding pharmacy, but after the terrible meningitis outbreak caused by conditions at a Massachusetts compounding pharmacy as well as reports that my local one had been cited for unsafe conditions, I opted to go with Edex. Edex is DA BOMB-- see my later posts about it. Caverject is the same drug (Prostaglandin E1) as Edex, but the prepackaged syringe is kind of complicated to operate-- you put the needle on, then you have to adjust the plunger in a couple different ways to adjust the dose-- it's a whole thing. Bi-Mix is a combination of Papaverine and Phentolamine and Tri-Mix is a combination of all 3 drugs and it works quite well, although again, it has to come from a compounding pharmacy. I'm currently using Super Bi-mix, which is a stronger concentration of the first two drugs. I've tried Tri-mix, but the Prostoglandin makes my willy ache, so I stuck with the Super Bi-mix. I'm guessing this is likely the "proprietary formula" that Total Performance Medical sells to its patients. Total Performance Medical charges you something like $300 up front to be seen, and like I said, the drugs they prescribe are "proprietary", so you can only get them from TPM, and I never went for treatment so I dunno what the drug price is. The only cons for Edex are the expense (currently $160 for two doses, with my insurance) and initially having to experiment with the dosage so it works well but doesn't produce the infamous 4-hour erection. I had one of those, and didn't go to the hospital, which may be why I now have Peyronie's disease, although it didn't happen right after that occasion, and Peyronie's is actually fairly common with men my age. Then, too, Edex produces kind of a dull ache in my penis, but nothing too uncomfortable. Alas, I so wish for my old Papaverine: it made my little monster fat and hard as a rock for a consistent 1.5 hours. My new urologist convinced me to try Bi-mix, a combination of papaverine and phentolamine from a compounding pharmacy in Houston. It works better than Edex, doesn't produce the dull ache that Edex does, and it's a LOT cheaper-- $70 for enough for maybe 10 doses vs. $160 for only TWO doses of Edex. It's a much more natural-feeling erection, too.)
Penis Pumps, Cock Rings, and Other Scary Devices
I understand that they can be quite effective, especially when combined with a cock ring, which I did recently try. I'd had a couple of less than stellar erections, and at my regular visit to the urologist I mentioned this, since I was afraid that Viagra maybe wasn't going to work for me anymore (and eventually it didn't). He gave me samples of Levitra and Staxyn, listed above, and suggested a penis ring. Since the arteries into the penis are in the center of the organ and the veins out are toward the outside, a properly fitting ring can allow blood in while restricting its flow outward, keeping you harder longer (although it should be used for no more than 30 minutes, they say). The Levitra breathed new life into the little fella, though, and our next lovemaking session left us happily exhausted, making the cock ring unnecessary. Afterward she asked me what the cock ring was for, and when I told her it would make me harder and last longer she said "No, no, no...." for whatever reason. So I've been using the ring (hope this doesn't offend you) as a masturbatory aid so I can save the drugs for the real thing, and so far it's worked pretty well but not well enough to be a substitute for the drugs. It does kind of restrict the urethra a little bit, producing a high-velocity ejaculation similar to the effect of a Viagra overdose (see the "Viagra overdose and other no-nos" post). The other options I was given 'way back when were last-resort alternatives when nothing else would work: Penile implants, either a saline bladder inserted inside the cavernosa blood vessels that is then inflated with a little pump, or flexible, bendable plastic pieces the size of the cavernosa that either you slide into them (after an opening for them is made surgically), or which are completely implanted so you have to bend them upward to make an erection or downward to keep the little fella out of the way. I saw where one ED doctor who specializes in implants for transsexuals recommended the static bendable ones for his younger patients who are likely to be more sexually active, because they don't wear out as fast as the inflatable implants, which supposedly last up to 15 years, but it may be that they last that long because older folks don't use 'em as much..
(UPDATE, 03/13/2014: I may have to find out which implants are better-- see later posts about Peyronie's Disease. Sigh....)
ED 1000
A painless ultrasonic shock wave treatment that supposedly cures ED permanently in up to 95% of patients, it is available in medical clinics in Canada and the rest of the World, but is still in the investigational stage in the US but it becoming widely available anyway as of 2022.. It's been quite popular in the United Kingdom, because since they have socialized medicine, it saves the government money in the long run if they can more or less cure the patient's ED instead of continually buying drugs for him. I recently saw a small-scale study from Japan that kind of scaled back that 95% success rate to about 65%, but it WAS a really small sample of test subjects. The last I heard about price was $4000 for the full set of treatments in Canada, and you would have to stay there for a while if you don't live nearby-- You get 2 treatments a week for 3 weeks, then a 3 week break, then 2 treatments a week for 3 more weeks. Try Medispec.com for info-- they manufacture the device.
UPDATE 05/27/2022: Although still not formally approved by the FDA, Low-intensity Shockwave Therapy (LISWT) is now widely available from various clinics, but is still generally not covered by most health insurance providers. My urology clinic now offers it under the brand name U-Wave: when I signed up it was $1500 but is now $2000. If I was in the first stages of ED it would certainly be worth the money, since it is most succesful with mild to moderately severe ED. I have severe ED such that I am using Super Bi-mix, but I tried it anyway. It made my injection-induced erections somewhat fatter, and I seemed to have gotten some of my length back after its previous Peyronie's-induced shortness, so to me even with that limited success it was worth the expense. Sooner the better, I say!
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