TOPIC: Wound closure - the bad and then the GOOD!

Thanks - yeah i am glad it is improving.

I had an upward bend of 60 degrees -- you can see before and after pics in my journal (click the \"part 1 below\"). That was in 2010-2013 though

That left bend is due to the camera angle or something. I don\'t know why it looks like that. It was totally normal then. I had PD surgery in 2013. I didn\'t have PD in that pic. The narrowing / hinge effect started in 2010 when PD started. It was normal in 2006. Maybe that\'s not the best pic ,but it was hard to find old Dick pics.

Excision wound at week 5 (this was the Revision of the first excision that was open for 2 months). This is unreal.

All I did was apply Cellacyn - and I wasn\'t even that diligent about it! It was wrapped in Xeroform for 2 days. Then, I unwrapped it. After that, the next 7 days I alternated cellacyn with bacitracin. Stitches came out at that point. No masturbation for 4 weeks.

The LAST thing to fix is that stupid punch excision that wouldn\'t close... THEN I AM DONE!

(there\'s a clear tegraderm dressing on the lower wound - that\'s why it is shiny)

wow looks awesome!

Congratulations! U deserve some good news.

Thanks .

My last surgery was this morning. He took out the final nodules that wouldn\'t heal. The initial attempt to remove them created a bizarre shell of swelling and scar tissue. It\'s so fucked up.

I lost 2 cm more of vertical skin on the right side...adding to a total of about 4 cm lost on the right... jesus. He wouldn\'t take anything off on the left to compensate. He clipped the dog ear I had on top. Bandage comes off weds.

He thinks stretching devices will help, but if I need grafting - he recommended Dr. Alter.

No phones allowed in the OR...so this is all I got



wow. if I never did round 3... I can\'t even think about it.

6 moths of this nightmare.

I should have been degloved and had the nodules dissected out.

Bandage off... I have no idea what happened here. The lesion was 2x2... the incision was 2 x 5. If it heals as well as the one above it, that will be good - but I don\'t know why so much skin had to come out. At the rate cited on the Foreskin restoration boards, I\'ll be stretching it for 2-4 years. That\'s nuts. Anyway, he thinks I need to reevaluate at 6 mos and go to Dr. Alter for a graft if I need it. He doesn\'t do those.

I just really didn\'t expect this. He didn\'t say much other than it went well and he closed it just like last time. This is my own fuckup really, for wanting that stupid TINY lump excised (i\'m holding a pic with it in the above post). I should\'ve just left it alone once this one was done. He took the dog ear off at least... so... maybe in 4 years I\'ll have my post R2 Dick back.

Good luck healing...As you know, just give your body time to heal and corrects itself...

Stitches removed. Now 6 weeks after upper right excision. 1 week after lower right excision. The left looks really lumpy for some reason... more than in the past. Whatever, I can\'t do any more with this. I will try some DMSO on the left once the wounds are fully closed. About 1\" of skin is missing from the right, Erect...maybe 1.5\" if you don\'t include the Balls skin that is being pulled up.

The upper incision was slightly modified a week ago. He took that middle lump off...so that\'s still healing again.He said he made the excision a very wide <> shape so it wound taper and not bunch up at the edges. That\'s why it\'s so much bigger than the lesion itself. So, it\'s interesting to note that excising a Nodule is going to end up in more skin loss than the Nodule itself.

I\'m watching \"Botched\" (the plastic surgery Revision show) on E! and this woman had exactly what I did... a non-healing hole in the skin after breast augmentation. They took the implants out and she had 4 bacteria in there (a biofilm / polymicrobial infection in the hole -I think Lemperle was right about me having a biofilm). Then, she had more surgery to excise the wound and then treat it again. She looks to be about my age, if not a little older...and it was the same exact story, except a different material.

It\'s amazing to see this happening to someone else (in my age range) - because most of these non healing wounds are on elderly patients who can\'t move from their beds or diabetics. Hers took 8 months to close. I was on month 2-3 when I just had the damn thing excised. Could you imagine an open hole on your Dick for 8 months!? Shit...and PMMA is more insidious in my opinion, because it was probably all through the tissues. Her breast implant was simply removed in one big piece. It never leaked. She just had wound healing issues.

Oh - AND her story is just like me because this happened on her 2nd or 3rd procedure...when she wanted to augment again...the first augmentation was perfectly fine but she wanted to go bigger.

From my last surgery in August, I ended up with a wound that reopened again. This had to be closed by cutting out more skin and PMMA tissue...the doct had no other choice but to cut out more PMMA in this way once the PMMA got into the wound & made it impossible to close. I have pathology pics - it\'s literally 90% PMMA in these nodules I had taken out. The inflammatory cells are gone (it\'s been over a year) - it\'s just PMMA now. So, Kenalog and 5fu wouldn\'t do anything.

I am never removing another Nodule again. My Dick is a land mine.

It is healed now, with a big dent and scar.

I wouldn\'t trip on it too bad. It\'s still a good Dick and looks to be a good size. I\'m sure you are your own worst critic.
Shit happens but you are surviving everything like you\'re bulletproof.

Thanks. It\'s back to 4.5 mseg and 5 base Girth...which is smaller than R1 at the MSEG. (It is swollen in the pic since I just had surgery). And, I have a huge dent now with 3 significant scars. There are still hard nodules that I decided to leave alone.

The last 18 months have been hell...the stress of this and constant surgeries and worsening has affected everything in my life. I have had no sex life. It\'s just amazing to me to see that pathology slide with 90% PMMA in my tissue. I can\'t believe this defective shit was injected in me, and I\'ll never be the same after so much tissue has been removed. My Dick really does not look remotely normal in Flaccid or Erect states. I don\'t really like posting pics all the time - but there is a huge C shaped dent where those stitches were taken out. It can\'t flatten out because he had to remove the PMMA tissue there.

The only possibility to get back to normal (even round 1 normal would be fine) is to spend thousands on Juvederm to smooth some of this out...but that seems very hit or miss.