Penile injury; Any thoughts?

[Darwayne]

Hello all,

I'm a 21 year old male and unfortunately injured my penis about a year and 8 months ago from something called jelqing. It's a "natural method" of penis enlargement as I was very insecure of my size at the time. You basically use lube to "milk" the blood forward in the penis and trap it there. I followed all precautions but never the less, after only 3 weeks of doing it, I found that almost all of my sexual sensitivity was gone. I've seen many doctors and done endless research as I can't let myself quit. I've tried accepting it but I simply can't have any sort of healthy sex life if I don't find something as there is barely any sensitivity on my penis to generate an erection.

FYI when I say pleasurable sensitivity, I mean the sexually pleasing sensitivity. I don't have any numbness where I can't feel my penis.

Symptoms:

-Spider veins in shaft that only show while erect.

-White spots on glans (only show when flaccid)

- Almost no pleasurable sensitivity on top or sides of shaft. Almost none on bottom until you get within an inch of the glans where it's about 30% what it used to be.

- Glans are also 25-30% what they used to be except on right side where they're about 20%. glan and upper belly sensitivity go down to like 10% for a couple days if I masturbate then work their way back up (never used to happen, everything used to stay at 100%, I'd just be less horny.)

-I have feeling in penis at all times, it has never gone completely numb but certainly has lost most of the sensitivity almost all of the pleasurable sensitivity in some areas. Just about every part of my body has more sensitivity than the bottom 3/4's of my shaft.

- After injury, I masturbated every week or so to see if sexual feeling was getting better and a couple weeks in, I suddenly got a sharp pain on top left shaft very close to base while masturbating. It was while I was slightly pushing my erection downwards to make a 90 degree angle (which I had done a million times before). To relieve it, I had to pull erection to belly. After this happened twice, I quit masturbating for months.

-If I do cobra pose to stretch abs/stomach, I get dull ache at top and sides of base of penis for awhile (didn't ever happen before injury).

-I have 1 hard vein since injury. Not the largest main vein but probably equal to the 2nd largest. It's slightly buried under the skin and runs all the way from top center at base down to the top left base of glans. My guess is it's a dorsal artery.

After I quit masturbating like 2 months in, I think I made it like 3 months without it. Then after another week or 2, I stopped and probably made it like 6 months, then recently went 9 months and just started doing it again as my new Pelvic Floor therapist has instructed me to. She told me to keep everything in a comfortable position when doing it but after 9 months, anything that wants to heal would've and I should stimulate the nerves that are working.

I've seen 3 urologists, all no help. They said they've never seen anything like it and let it heal itself.

What I'd like to try and find out is if there's any tests or even new technologies anyone here might recommend I try. Stuff like Nerve growth factor or stem cells? Any tests that could actually locate or diagnose the problem. You know, tell me whether I have scar tissue, a partially torn ligament, compressed nerve, damaged nerve, etc. I'd like to pinpoint something because what if it is fixable? What if I could've been using some essential oil or vitamin this whole time to give a chance at healing? I can easily see a new urologist but if I do, I'd like to be prepared with a game plan on what tests I should get and why in case he's anything like the other 3 I've seen.

Also something I will mentioned real quick as a lot of people like to jump to this. This is not something that stays on my mind. This is not something that consumes me or has me depressed. I stay very busy with work and find happiness in many other ways so I can promise this issue is not mental or something that is caused by poor mental health/anxiety/depression.

Thank you for reading all this and bearing with me, any input is much appreciated, I promise.

[timmyboy20]

Maybe you should see a vascular surgeon instead of an urologist as probably the veins in your penis could be damaged by the jelqing. Just an idea.

[Darwayne in reply to timmyboy20]

I've considered this but strangely enough (and something I definitely should have included) is I get nocturnal erections all the time and do get spontaneous erections sometimes. I may go down that road if I don't figure out this hard vein I mentioned but otherwise, seems the vascular system is working like it should.

[timmyboy20 in reply to Darwayne]

There are also investigations which can be done such as a MRI or a cavernosogram (a test where a thin hypodermic needle is inserted into one area of the penis before a radio contrast solution is injected and X-rays taken).

[Darwayne in reply to timmyboy20]

That's a wonderful recommendation. I think I will try the cavernosogram. Probably costly but gotta do what I gotta do right? Thank you

[jimfromcalif]

I agree with Timmy that a vascular specialist is your source for help.

[Darwayne in reply to jimfromcalif]

You guys are right, definitely worth trying. Could be looking down the wrong path. I'll be finding one this week. Thank you