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arizkohli
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Numbness and Tingling due to perineum issues: Saddle help

I posted this on the road bike sub section but was told I'd get a lot more help here so giving it a go again.

I've gone through past posts but most of the advice seems to be a couple of yars old. Hoping there has been some new breakthrough in the last 2 years.
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So I started cycling for fitness a couple of months and got hooked on to it; I do 25-30 km runs almost daily with the occasional 50 km sunday run. I'm riding a scott addict rc 20 most of the times and sometimes the bergamont grandurance rd5.

Now my problem is I'm a big heavy old guy, 47 years and somewhere between 120-130 kg, not in the best of shape, not very flexible but an old time sporty guy. I'm having a lot of problems with perineum pressure and severe **** numbness. I've got a bike fit done on both bikes, don't know how good it is but that's the best I could manage in my location (India). I'm comfortable on the bikes in all other ways To resolve the numbness issue I got a prologo dimension NDR CPC Tirox 143 saddle (sorry the board isn't allowing me to post a link to the saddle page). While that has helped a wee bit but the problem hasn't gone away.

I'm looking for some saddle recommendations for a heavy guy like me, preferably if you have faced and solved this problem with saddle selection and adjustment. I ride with the stem reversed on a +12 degree positive rise but I'm thinking of lowering it soon. From what I've read and researched, a lower reach, wider and shorter saddle and cut outs help. The prologo I got is wide-ish (143mm), short and has a cut out but it isn't the magic formula I was hoping for. It cost me over 200 dollars. We don't have the opportunity to try on different saddles here nor any professional sit bone measuring service, I will have to just take recommendations and buy one saddle hoping it works.

Please help, I don't want to give up cycling but I also want to have a normal sex life. So saddle recommendations, which commonly works for big guys to resolve perineum issues; and tilt and reach etc. to help a fellow cyclist out please.

Thanks in advance guys.
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