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Hey all, hopefully this topic helps some of the rest of you as well -- stuff like this is a big reason why I joined this site in the first place, so let's discuss.
I recently went to my primary care doctor then urologist regarding a crazy almost 45-degree bend upward just below the head of my penis when I get an erection. It developed in the last 8-9 months pretty quickly, and it finally got bothersome enough to overcome the "embarrassment" of talking to doctors about it.
I have always had an extremely straight, uniform penis until now, making the change all the more striking. Not only visually, but lengthwise it's been greatly reduced. It also is extremely uncomfortable to get an erection. Almost painful sometimes. Pain isn't quite the right word -- but like bending it towards the curve (even just inadvertently while moving it around) causes waves of a feeling like nausea or getting punched in the area.
I can feel the tissue causing the problem while I'm soft, it's kind of in the middle of the shaft, and it's very easy to feel, nothing like that has ever been "in there".
Talking with the doctors after doing my own research, they felt around and it's about a ~3cm long area of dense tissue, likely scar tissue. I don't recall any damage in the area, but they said it can come from almost anything, even very minor things, and it just happened to be the way it started to heal and kept going, the way normal scar tissue forms.
I guess there's not a ton of medical research on this area since it's seen as so embarrassing, but it happens to pretty much everyone on some level, even unnoticably. Damage to that sensitive tissue is practically unavoidable, during activities, sex, or just life. It doesn't affect most people very adversely, but many guys will have their penis erection shape altered over the course of their life by this.
The treatment plan is to try and "break up" the tissue or weaken it so it allows the penis to engorge with blood during an erection as normal rather than it basically pulling it in a direction because the scar tissue doesn't stretch.
So I'm on a low dose of Cialis to try and help get more blood flow to try and stretch it out more, as well as Trental to try and improve blood flow and break up any clotting that might be involved in there.
He did tell me that basically, it's not known to be very effective in most cases, but they do try it first to see if it's an easier fix.
I guess after like 6 months if there's not much improvement and the angle is over 30 degrees (mine is I think), they can then look into injections to break up the tissue, as well as a stretching traction device called RestoreX that is actually very effective in straightening and restoring length, but it is pretty expensive and not covered by insurance, plus it is -- of course -- quite involved and a pain to use.
So I thought I'd put it out here for you guys -- anyone else had this problem or something similar and have suggestions or advice? Is there a lower-cost traction device that I can get and try myself? Everything I see on this says the sooner you catch it and start treating it the better the recovery chances are, so I wouldn't mind trying to get a device to straighten it out. There seem to be a lot of those things online, but I have no idea if they do the same thing as the RestoreX or are as effective, or even how to use them very effectively!
Anwyay, I'd be thankful for any suggestions or advice, and hopefully anyone else with similar issues can see this and come across some resources that might help them. I'd post pictures if other people also did, I wasn't sure how useful that would be, and I'm much more bashful than most people here so I'd appreciate not going first
I know this is usually something people avoid bringing up with doctors or even loved ones that could offer support or advice.
And isn't offering support to larger penises what we do here??
Thanks everyone!
I recently went to my primary care doctor then urologist regarding a crazy almost 45-degree bend upward just below the head of my penis when I get an erection. It developed in the last 8-9 months pretty quickly, and it finally got bothersome enough to overcome the "embarrassment" of talking to doctors about it.
I have always had an extremely straight, uniform penis until now, making the change all the more striking. Not only visually, but lengthwise it's been greatly reduced. It also is extremely uncomfortable to get an erection. Almost painful sometimes. Pain isn't quite the right word -- but like bending it towards the curve (even just inadvertently while moving it around) causes waves of a feeling like nausea or getting punched in the area.
I can feel the tissue causing the problem while I'm soft, it's kind of in the middle of the shaft, and it's very easy to feel, nothing like that has ever been "in there".
Talking with the doctors after doing my own research, they felt around and it's about a ~3cm long area of dense tissue, likely scar tissue. I don't recall any damage in the area, but they said it can come from almost anything, even very minor things, and it just happened to be the way it started to heal and kept going, the way normal scar tissue forms.
I guess there's not a ton of medical research on this area since it's seen as so embarrassing, but it happens to pretty much everyone on some level, even unnoticably. Damage to that sensitive tissue is practically unavoidable, during activities, sex, or just life. It doesn't affect most people very adversely, but many guys will have their penis erection shape altered over the course of their life by this.
The treatment plan is to try and "break up" the tissue or weaken it so it allows the penis to engorge with blood during an erection as normal rather than it basically pulling it in a direction because the scar tissue doesn't stretch.
So I'm on a low dose of Cialis to try and help get more blood flow to try and stretch it out more, as well as Trental to try and improve blood flow and break up any clotting that might be involved in there.
He did tell me that basically, it's not known to be very effective in most cases, but they do try it first to see if it's an easier fix.
I guess after like 6 months if there's not much improvement and the angle is over 30 degrees (mine is I think), they can then look into injections to break up the tissue, as well as a stretching traction device called RestoreX that is actually very effective in straightening and restoring length, but it is pretty expensive and not covered by insurance, plus it is -- of course -- quite involved and a pain to use.
So I thought I'd put it out here for you guys -- anyone else had this problem or something similar and have suggestions or advice? Is there a lower-cost traction device that I can get and try myself? Everything I see on this says the sooner you catch it and start treating it the better the recovery chances are, so I wouldn't mind trying to get a device to straighten it out. There seem to be a lot of those things online, but I have no idea if they do the same thing as the RestoreX or are as effective, or even how to use them very effectively!
Anwyay, I'd be thankful for any suggestions or advice, and hopefully anyone else with similar issues can see this and come across some resources that might help them. I'd post pictures if other people also did, I wasn't sure how useful that would be, and I'm much more bashful than most people here so I'd appreciate not going first
I know this is usually something people avoid bringing up with doctors or even loved ones that could offer support or advice.
And isn't offering support to larger penises what we do here??
Thanks everyone!
