Just want to link to some interesting research that might improve treatment futher on.
Researchers find drug that enables healing without scarring | News Center | Stanford Medicine (http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2021/04/drug-enables-healing-without-scarring.html)
already known to treat peyronie: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6302152/
Fascinating read, thank you to you both for sharing.
"Urologists with special interest in Peyronies Disease should organize brainstorming symposia with non-urologists such as biologists and geneticists. Improved international collaboration will pave the way for funding and finding optimal research paths."
I wish this would be the case, and that they want to heal us instead of making sure they get paid by doing surgeries.
Just joking here, but if we induce Peyronie's in 3000 urologists, biologists and geneticists and watch them for three months. We might have a breakthrough in science!
Quote from: healthyconsumption on September 14, 2021, 06:57:43 PM
I wish this would be the case, and that they want to heal us instead of making sure they get paid by doing surgeries.
They would make more money if they actually developed treatments that worked consistently or at least found surgeries that didn't have so many adverse side effects.
There's probably Millions upon millions of men with various forms of peyronies that just don't even bother with the suggested treatments cause they really don't do much of anything or make the condition worse than before. It's way too risky.
I think this whole big pharma conspiracy where scientists just want money is just a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that we simply don't understand how to properly treat scars in this day and age.
I'm optimistic that there's scientists and doctors working on legitimate treatments and corrective surgeries for this condition. After all, scars affect everyone, not just people with peyronies so it's inevitable something will come along. Until then, adapt to new ways to get sexual release and follow up on advancements with tissue engineering/transplants since that's probably going to be the game changer in treatments this century.
Quote from: Hazelboy98 on September 26, 2021, 01:15:43 PM
I think this whole big pharma conspiracy where scientists just want money is just a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that we simply don't understand how to properly treat scars in this day and age.
I'm optimistic that there's scientists and doctors working on legitimate treatments and corrective surgeries for this condition. After all, scars affect everyone, not just people with peyronies so it's inevitable something will come along. Until then, adapt to new ways to get sexual release and follow up on advancements with tissue engineering/transplants since that's probably going to be the game changer in treatments this century.
I tend to agree with this. Big pharma will make money either way. Fibrosis in general is a really tough problem to solve. I don't think it'll ever be possible to reverse a calcified plaque into normal healthy tissue, ever. Seems like the only hope is tissue regeneration.
Lostandsad may be correct that it'll be possible to reverse a calcified plaque to normal healthy tissue. However, MANY men with peyronies have plaque that is not calcified. Additionally, a recent post by Dr. Trost in our forum website says that most peyronies plaques do not calcify (https://www.peyroniesforum.net/index.php/topic,16694.0.html). So, there's reason for optimism.