I was taking finasteride as part of a prescription for hair loss. It's a finasteride and minoxidil mix through Hims. I'm just going to be switching to minoxidil.

I haven't looked into it much but I'm hoping whatever side effects finasteride has are reversible and go away once I stop taking it.

A new development into my increasingly devastating peyronies journey is that I think I have hard flaccid syndrome (or disease? Can't remember the name). My flaccid penis is semi-hard about 75% of the time and the tip of my penis is cold with white spots on it. I have felt some pelvic discomfort the past few days which lead me to do some research and I'm pretty confident I have it. I'm going to schedule a urologist appointment for sometime this week (or just as soon as an appointment is available) to get this checked out as well as get a second opinion on my Peyronies condition.

I've noticed when laying down, my penis goes to its original spongy state. When I'm standing or sitting, it goes into a hard flaccid state. I've also noticed that I have some blueish purple veins on my penis and scrotum they are more noticeable. The tube to one of my testicles is also swollen. Everything is a mess right now. It's hard to stay positive when it seems like I'm getting hit from multiple angles.

On the bright side, I'm home from vacation so I can continue traction therapy and I just took my first 900mg dose of Propolis as well as 300mg of CoQ10. I'm going to start keto tomorrow and do some pelvic floor workouts. Just hoping to have a functional penis...

If there's anyone out there who's reading this who's had peyronies for a long time, can you tell me if you have been able to stabilize your condition and retain the ability to have sex?

Day 5

Today I got the drainage tube taken out and I am feeling good.

It worries me that the ends of my cylinders are so close to the tip of my penis. It feels like there is just a thin layer of my withered glans preventing the pointy ends from stabbing out, but Dr. Hakky said it is nothing to worry about.

I really hope cialis can plump up my glans because it is so small right now.


Since these implants are such a rare thing to have in a young man, I truly have no way of knowing how girls will react to it. I know I would be perfectly fine with it if a girl told me she had a plastic vagina because of some injury, but there is so much more importance placed on the health and performance of a man's penis that it's not really a valid comparison. Lately it feels like everywhere I look-- movies, tv shows, memes, I see jokes about a man not being able to get hard. Women I will meet will definitely have been exposed to this sort of attitude for years and will have formed some deep-rooted biases. My only hope is that by the time they find out about my issue, they will already have fallen for me a great deal. I am not looking forward to this aspect of dating going forward and I see some hard times ahead...

I apologize for the vent, but these thoughts have just been eating me up a bit.

I have tried doing traction with the skin pulled back like it is recommended, but it's extremely uncomfortable.

I've been doing traction for three weeks now with the skin not pulled back. I've been trying to do it strategically as possible in order to get results. I do feel a stretch.

Any thoughts?

pey ron,

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I've been doing more research and HF symptoms sound alarmingly similar to my condition (flaccid pain, pain while standing, awkward clenching during orgasm.) Before I had my mysterious overnight penile fracture and woke up with an eggplant between my legs, I had pretty significant upward curvature and suffered some penile discomfort from sitting, pants, etc. I can also remember experiencing a weird itchy/tingling sensation around my prostate in the days leading up to my fracture.

Is it possible for HF symptoms to cause Peyronie's? In these situations, is the best option multimodal treatment combining traction and pelvic floor therapy? I have palpable plaques and indentation while erect and I'm 100% sure it's Peyronies, but I believe there is a HF component as well. I'm at a bit of a loss trying to figure out the best course of action because Dr. Trost advises against traction for HF while HF sufferers like Neoman swear by traction. Any thoughts?

I understand how tough it can be. I went through a rough patch during university where I felt really low. It was hard to cope, but I found some solace in smoking vapes. I remember the cherry-flavored ones from https://shopc9.com, they were like a little escape. But I'm glad to say I'm in a better place now, and I'm thankful I made it through those tough times.

https://www.peyroniesforum.net/index.php/topic,20372.0.html

Further to my contribution above, I wanted to share with you another experience of my recovery from Peyronie's. Besides the change in diet and daily walks, I also started taking Kefir on a daily basis during the past five months. Again, I don't know whether this was coincidental but I believe that there is nothing to lose if you try it out as well. Kefir is available from most stores nowadays.

Anyone else can relate to this?

A lot of studies show that traction therapy will reduce curvature. But these studies do not measure the ability to have intercourse. And if we're honest, 99% of people do it for that exact reason.

Are there any guys out there who have observed the correlation and can tell it to motivate us all to continue with traction therapy?

Initally the curvature appears to be the limiting factor but if you have reduced this significantly, maybe does the traction therapy create new restrictions?

Apolgizes for my english. I am not a native.

As long as you are providing adequate tension with the black bars being less exposed you will get a good stretch at any angle. Provided that you are counter bending for at least 15 minutes 2 times a day, (15m minutes straight stretch and 15 minutes counter stretch).