Penile Injections: The Procedure
Carlos Muslera, The Kiss
It all began in my urologist’s office. The PA showed both me and my partner the proper way to inject Trimix into the penis. She only used 5mg, then left the room for ten minutes, but not before telling us to “do what you normally do before having sex.” What we might normally do is engage in foreplay for a while longer than ten minutes exploring each other’s erogenous zones in various and sundry ways, but I didn’t think it would be wise to hop on the examining table and to that so we didn’t. When she returned, I could feel the med beginning to work, but at 5mg it wasn’t going to be anything to write home about. After that, we experimented…10mg, 15mg, 20mg (twice) with partial results so we decided to up the dose to 25mg in hopes that would be the magic number. We had some wine before the injection and smoked a bit of weed after it and though we were both excited about the “discovery,” I wasn’t quite sure how long it would last. My partner and I have a habit of chatting after drinking a coupled glasses of wine, maybe a can of White Claw and a puff or two of weed as we’d wait for things to materialize. The problem seemed to be as we chatted about nothing in particular and everything in general was something that neither of us expected, which was a woody like in the good old days, before Lupron and radiation; however, I wasn’t quite sure what to do with it. I know that sounds ridiculous, but after months and months of celibacy, I had somehow lost my direction and I could feel the erection slowly slipping away, so to speak. Seems I thought it would last a wee bit longer than it did and so I felt the next time we should chat less and have more sex, which was the entire purpose of getting in injected in the first place. To those of you who are anxious about getting injected, all I can say is giving blood is more anxiety producing. If you’re at wit’s end (or penis’s end) talk to your oncologist and/or urologist about injections and may Trimix be with you.