New aggressive flare up!

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Winter

Hi everyone.
I have this crappy disease for almost 3 years. I had 3 episodes on the acute phase, as my signature pointed out. The first was on 2020. This one was the lighter one. Just some temporary pain and a couple of minor indentations that, at different moments, went away over time, miraculously. The pain never went away completely, but it was manageable.

The second on, around 2021, gave me a big indentation on the ventral side, closer to the glans. It was quite scary. But it was just this. No ED, no curvature, just this big indentation. Looking from above, I couldn't tell any difference from before. Some hard flaccid but no pain. I could only see this indentation on the mirror, since it was only on the downward area. From above, everything normal.

Last December, I've watched my dick on the mirror and I could almost see a normal dick again. Sure, there was a small loss of girth, but overall, I could live as if nothing ever happened. I never stopped feel some light pain here and there, and I always had SEVERAL small lumps inside of it. But life was carrying on as is it supposed to be. I even considered writing on the improvement tab as a closing chapter. But since I haven't done anything to get better I decided not to write.

But then January 2023 arrived. On the third day of the month, a new indentation appeared on the left side. This time, visible from above. I've panicked! Not again! Not after getting better. I started right away to do traction, keto diet, pentox, cialis, and tried to revert the problem. But 15 days later, another huuuge indentation appeared on the right side. This time forming a semi hourglass on the ventral area below the glans. Since my wife is pregnant, she is not too much in the mood for sex. So I decided to go bold and started a 7 day water fasting. No sex, just rest. Lost 6kg in one week. And I am not overweight.

Finished my fasting and I was praying daily for, at least, for the flare up to stop...
But no. Two days ago, the indentation on the right side is getting deeper and longer. From below the glans to almost reaching the middle of the penis. I still can have an erection when I flirt with my wife, but not alone, because my emotional side is a complete mess.

If this thing keeps going, I don't know what I am going to do. How devastating this is! More than one flare up per year! What started as a minor case is now turning into complete mess. Half of my penis is being flattened!

I am starting to worry about my future. I am 41. My kid will be born in less than three months from now. I don't have the money for an implant. I have to pay for my PhD. So I'd have to ask my relatives for a loan so I could pay them later. My wife doesn't like the idea of me getting an implant that early in life. She is scared about possible complications of having this for many decades. In fact I think I am still capable of having sex. But with that aggressive progression, for how long? No doctor offers any solution. Some say to start traction immediately! Others to stop and not risk damaging the tissue any further. There is no future treatments on the pipeline to fix this.

I have to work happily, concentrate on my studies, being a loving husband and act, for everybody else, marvelously happy, as if nothing was happening. While my dick is continuously getting damage, week after week.

Life is being pretty dark herethese days. I am glad this forum exists. At least I have a place to open myself up.
Sorry for any mistakes on the grammar. I am doing my best, but I am not super concentrated right now.  
41 yo, married. Onset on 07/20. Flare up on 07/21. Brand new flare up 01/23. Indentations and hourglass. It still hurts sometimes; No erectile dysfunction. Taking Pentox, Cialis, Supplements, trying diets, fasting, VED and manual traction.
God bless

Bud luck

Who told you to do traction right away?, and who told not to do it?, I'm exactly on the same situation, some told me to do traction, others to do VED and others to do nothing, while my penis is progressively getting worse, we have a condition that is not being taking seriously by the Medical industry, there is no money being invested. One day a billionaire will get it and he will put millions in research and maybe they will find the cure but until then the only solution is getting a risky surgery and that is the implant all the other "Alternative Therapies" like P-shot, Shockwaves, CO2 injections.... are worthless
My first symptoms started early in 2019
I tried Traction device, Pentofixiline, Q10, TRT, L-Argenine, cialis
I have narrowing/dent/hinge on the left side of my shaft
My ED is getting worse
Had a PRP shot Aug 2021
I have a girlfriend
Age 46

Sonic

Sorry you have to go through this. Both me and Bud Luck are also guys who suffer from indentations and narrowing and it is the absolute worst part of this disease imo by far.

If you have for instance just a curve but no form of indents or narrowing/wasting it's relatively easy to correct it with plication albeit at the loss of lenght.

However indentations and narrowing is overall very very tough symptoms to treat. There is not really much research or clinical trials showing any great improvements in men with these symptoms.

I hope you find the help you need though. It is crucial never to start panicing over it. This will for sure worsen things.
30 years. Sudden rightwards curve detected in June 2020
Narrowing on right side and about a 20° curve to the right.
ED + instability due to narrowing.

Winter

Yeah. We are on a tough spot, my friends.
Thank you for your message.

This kind of deformation, specially when it is progressive, is one of the worst ones to have, I imagine.
Today, I had an erection and the indentation is getting even worse than couple of days ago. It is still progressing furiously. I hope it will stop somehow, but the reality is grievous.

I've been seriously thinking about this whole mess I am living in...

I honestly don't plan to waste my life being dragged towards this pit of depression and gloominess. I have made up my mind; if, at any point, I start to have ED, I will go for the implant. I simply don't have the stomach to live a life in fear and sorrow.


However, in order to undergo this dramatic procedure, I must be completely sure that my situation really requires it. My threshold line is the shape of my dick. If it becomes too unsettling and difficult to have sex, I won't hesitate to go for it.
I won't be awaiting any new miraculous cure that is for sure not coming any time soon. Even if it appears, I will be at peace with my decision, because I didn't choose to have this at this moment in history. Whatever God wants I'll deal with it.

To opt for the implant might be a very extreme decision to have. Probably it is. There is no coming back and life will be permanently changed afterwards. Surely! But to what kind of previous life will I be attaching myself to? A crooked tool, a sullen mood, a dismal personality, always afraid of this looming future? No thanks. I am not like that. I don't wanna be this person.

I speak for myself, obviously. Everybody has to reach their own conclusions. But I really don't wanna ruin my marriage and my happiness and becoming a siamese twin with this disease for the rest of my life.

Anyway, God Bless everyone.

 
41 yo, married. Onset on 07/20. Flare up on 07/21. Brand new flare up 01/23. Indentations and hourglass. It still hurts sometimes; No erectile dysfunction. Taking Pentox, Cialis, Supplements, trying diets, fasting, VED and manual traction.
God bless