Fractured Penis Tales

Posting Date: 02/09/2001

Here is a quick Valentine's story. It's a very serious article that concerns something that is controversial. There is such a thing as fracture of the penis. It is fairly common, and no, you don't have a bone in there.

Fracturing your penis is no laughing matter. Current clinical practice recommends that men have surgery to prevent curvature of the penis or Peyronie's disease after fracture. A new study has come out that looks at men who refused all treatment and the results are very interesting.

Let me read a little bit of this article published in The Journal of Urology. ?The diagnosis of a penile fracture is generally made, based on the typical presenting clinical features and associated history?.. The most common etiology," that's the causes, "are vaginal intercourse but fracture can occur after manipulation," what they mean is touching yourself, "rolling over onto an erect penis or any type of blunt trauma effecting an erect penis. Patients typically present with complaints of classic snapping or popping sounds, sharp penile pain, rapid detumescence," that means the erection goes away, "and swelling, ecchymosis," that's black and blue marks, "of the shaft after blunt trauma."

We've learned that if you fracture your penis you can wind up with Peyronie?s disease. This is caused by scar tissue created by the trauma of the fracture and that can make erections painful and curved.

Peyronie?s can be operated on successfully. But what is interesting about this article is all of the five men, followed by researchers, refused treatment. They all refused diagnostic evaluation, which requires injecting dye and taking x-rays. And despite this, all five did ok.

They were all able to maintain normal erectile function and reported they had intercourse without pain. Only one of the five reported that his penis was curved when erect, but he still refused surgical treatment. This was after a minimum of 12 months follow up for each.

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