Hey guys
I stumbled upon this forum yesterday and yeah, I have the same issue as many of you. It would be great if someone could answer a few questions.
So I just turned 24 and had this since puperty. It‘s a curvature of 30-35° to the left and also, there is a rotation of again 30°.
(This section is just background info, the questions are below for people who don‘t want to read too much.)
For a long time I kind of ignored this but had it on the back of my mind, which made me insecure regarding dating, but in October of last year I finally got a girlfriend. I was actually surprised to find out that sex wasn’t really possible because of the condition (and an erectile disfunction that I am 99% sure is because I can’t enjoy myself and am focused on this). I bought one of these fleshlight things to check by myself how things stand and it was actually not possible to put my penis into it and being fully erect (or it would have been very painful). Now really concerned, I checked with a local urologist near where I live (Switzerland) and she confirmed that it‘s a CPC. She was keen on performing the nesbit operation, which I agreed to. I read up loads before the second appointment in which she explained the operation to me. During this appointment it turned out that she had very little knowledge and practice of the operation and tried to assure me by telling me the chief surgeon will be present as well (he‘s also not specialised for penis surgery). When I confronted the urologist about the STAGE technique, it turned out that she had never heard of it before. A few days later I finally opened up to my father (who is a doctor as well, not urology) and he told me to call off the surgery. Needing another surgeon (who isn’t even an expert) in the room in case it doesn‘t go well and not knowing about STAGE were two huge red flags in his mind. I called off the surgery a week before it was supposed to happen and have been incredibly thankful for my dad‘s advice since, especially after reading some of the stories in this forum.
My girlfriend and I broke up a month ago. We never had sex and never really tried after the beginning, which was somewhat fine for her since she had her own issues with sex (psychological ones), of course, the situation still wasn‘t great. For me it was some kind of refuge where I was having a girlfriend but could postpone the surgery.
Now, I‘ve had a lot of time for introspection and it‘s clear to me that I have to end this problem. I can‘t imagine going on dates with this on my mind, I would spend 100% of the time thinking of my penis and how this is all gonna lead to a disaster.
Every time a see a girl now that smiles at me (it’s not as if this would happen every other day), or I like, I hate that I can‘t go for it and it‘s starting to get really depressing. I just want a normal sex life (and relationship life) like other people have.
So to the questions: I‘ve read up on the limited stuff I could find including „Current trends in the surgical treatment of
congenital penile curvature, 2019“ and the STAGE technique seems to be promising. I found online, like many of you, Dr Kuehhas in Vienna and also Dr Djakovic in Bavaria (I‘ve seen almost nothing about him here). Have any of you been to one of those or to another doctor in europe because of this condition? It seems all great but 90% of what I know about STAGE is directly from the guys who perform it, so it‘s a super unobjective source, and the local urologist appear to know very little about this topic because they mainly focus on prostate hypertrophia. So is there a catch with STAGE, is it mainly a marketing scheme and doesn‘t lead to good results?
I haven‘t had surgery before. My insurance is quite generous and would pay for the surgery in any country, so location is not the primary issue (although it seems to me that there should be a good enough expert somewhere in Europe and I shouldn‘t have to go the US or so).
What would you do in my situation?
Thanks for any answers, all types of information and advice are very welcome!
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