OK -- another question.

Did you all lose penis length? I seem to be reading about it and they mentioned it at Ford Hospital but it sounded like it may happen or may NOT.

Mel

When they remove the prostate they also remove that part of the urethra which is inside the prostate. So you lose however much that is....say an inch or a half inch or whatever. Then they stretch the tag end back up to the bladder neck and suture them together. You can imagine that pulls the bladder downward and the penis inward. In my case the first time I got a gander at Willie he looked like a scared turtle with just his nose peeking out of his shell. It was fairly shocking. I figure I lost at least an inch (which I could honestly ill-afford to lose). I also had a very hyperplastic prostate that weighed 83 gms. That could well have had something to do with it. The good news is that a yoga exercise, The Cobra, stretches everything in that area, and beginning gently, I have managed to recover over the last three months everything I lost during the surgery. Sounds like from the previous post that this too is variable, depending on your personal anatomy.

Steve

Don't mean to scare you but when I awoke up from surgery I looked under the covers and was totally shocked. It looked like Lorena Bobbit took my hobbit! There was nothing there! Just a tube sticking out from a second navel. And not an outie navel - an innie navel ! A total penisectomy. Now that the swelling has gone down I'd estimate I am an inch shorter when flaccid - sadly the only state I've got.

Take pictures of it now, pal.
Jeff

I went from HUGE to "where did it go"...I demanded a refund but only got laughted at...Ooops...Wrong story.

But I like the idea of taking pictures while you can..Its too late for most of us.

This is a follow-up to my earlier response where I wrote "unnoticable in my case...".

This is correct, but Paul1959's comment that the "trauma of surgery will cause the penis to retract and shrivel up" reminded me that in the short-term right after surgery this was my experience as well. This also goes to one of your questions in the thread "New questions" about pain, swelling, etc. immediately after surgery.

So, I would modify my response to this question on shrinkage to say that in the long term it was unnoticable in my case, but in the recovery period of the first few months it was, indeed, somewhat withdrawn (and tender for the first few weeks).

Just wanted to give a more complete answer...

My answer is similar to David/CPA's above. In the flacid stage, very much smaller, like: what happened to the poor guy. I am fortunate not to have experienced any ED post surgery, so in the errect stage, completely normal, even to pre-surgery specs. Like most things associated with PC, many different answers to the same questions.

David in SC

I have noticed that the twins hang lower. Could be just an optical elusion if little hero is shorter. 

Hero

Definitely shorter here also, and the daily pump regimen does not seem to be making much improved difference. By my measurements, I lost at least 1 inch when flaccid, and like some that have posted here, I did not have that much to spare. Using the pump and now injections, it appears that the erect state is not as long or full as pre-surgery. It's all so very frustrating, but goes with the territory of having the surgery.

Dallas

Longer!
Or maybe that's just my wife being kind!
I think she's just thrilled it works at all!

Of course I never really measured it! If I'm only average, or below average, I don't want to know!
The wife's a happy camper so I'm a happy camper!

I was like most of you in that my penis was very short after the cath came out and seems like it got shorter and had to go looking for it before I could pee.  After stimulation, that is what I could get a hold of, it maybe grew to about two to three inches but that was all.  With meds and stimulation, maybe four inches flacid still.  Muse helped a little more but was not the answer.  At about three months, VED made the little guy look like a blue monster filling the erection tube (WOW - nice).  It was nice that I could make it at least look big.  Out of the tube it looked great, purple and cold.  After a few weeks of the VED, the foreskin completely covered the head like I was not circumsized as well - a little scary.  The erections were relitively straight out and the length was at 6" like it use to be before OP except it was oversize and the angle was not upward like before.

Next the injections came along giving me a good erection with fairly good girth and length (maybe 5.5") but the old boy wanted to hang downward which made it more difficult for iC.  Today after three years post-op, still no natural erections, the erections are firm enough for penetration, length stilll at 5.5", girth reduced and angle downward which causes slippage in engagement and at times falls out of the vagina.  The muscles, tendons or ? are not what they use to be before OP. 

I think it is time to go back to the VED to get my girth and length back.  It's not easy but this is the way it is.  I believe periodic stimulation has helped which does not have to go to orgasm as Mulhall states.  Keep at it (pun...) and don't get discouraged.  I still like the little guy even though it is sagging & hanging down and so does my wife...

Marc