im in need of advice. i'm a 25 year old otherwise fit, healthy guy but who has been fighting a nightmare battle with priapisms. for those of you know its an unwanted, painful erection that requires emergency treatment because it wont go down. it all started about 15 months ago when for no reason i woke up with one. to this day the doctors havent been able to explain why. anyway i was freaked out but i didnt know what was going on and was embarrassed to go to the doctors, but when i finally did i had to get flown to a city hospital for an emergency operation... my penis was drained with needles! this hurt soooooo much and my penis was bruised for a few weeks after. anyway it had been about 24 hours and my penis was damaged meaning i couldnt get proper erections for months and months afterwards. i finally had sex with a girl about six months later, but then the priapisms started again and again. i had to go to the hospital again and again and again and again and they tried everything to work out what the problem was but couldnt understand it. i had arteriograms, blood tests, you name it. it was so bad i had to leave my job, because it was happening 3-4 times EVERY WEEK. it was taking a massive toll on me psychologically as well, and i still feel mentally scarred. i feel like something is wrong with me even though i know its not my fault, and im so embarrassed, i've lost a ton of confidence from all this, and i had to resign from 2 awesome jobs. i had a girlfriend of 2 years who i was really in love with but she stopped talking to me when i was impotent, that hurt like hell. anyway just recently they have put me on a drug called inderal (beta blocker) and so far, no priapisms, but i get really tired, and im struggling to get a solid erection as they interfere with that. in fact the only time i can get a solid one these days is when i wake up a priapism, but i just cant handle going into have my dick drained anymore. now, i have quite a large penis, but when its semi hard its just over 7 inches. (incidentally i lost confidence from this but i know my length is still pretty good) the problem is its not fully hard and hard to put a condom on accordingly. i can still have sex though. if anyone has ANY advice on any of the many problems i have brought up, please let me know their advice because its 15 months on and its often hard not to get depressed by all this, though i try my hardest...
thanks
ben
thanks
ben