16 months old injury won't heal

I suffered an injury from jelqing over a year ago, and I have not yet healed. I am experiencing ongoing pain, swelling and dysfunction, and I am growing increasingly alarmed that I have not seen progress and worry that I will never return to normal functionality. I would like to have a relationship and one day start a family, but that is currently impossible with this injury. I have gotten no help from doctors. Can anyone offer advice on this condition and any potential treatments?

My best guess as to why I am not healing is that excessive pressure within the penis has caused the veins to stretch. I am worried that there is valve damage. Each night, I wake multiple times with strong, painful erections, and I suspect that this repeating physical stress is preventing repair and possibly causing scarring or other permanent damage.

About me:

I’m 30 years old, fit, and in overall good health. I eat a healthy, whole food diet. I occasionally jog and lift weights. I occasionally take limited vitamins and minerals to boost my immune system. I’m at about 12-15% body fat. I drink alcohol moderately a few times per month. No smoking or recreational drugs. I suffer mild peripheral, nonprogressive neuropathy, and mild epilepsy, and am treated for this by prescription with Lamotrigine and Propranolol.

Symptoms:

- Constant pain, sometimes worse than others (stinging/stabbing) in what seems to be veins all over the penis (but some areas more than others)
- Swelling (tilts to the left when half erect, but not fully erect)
- Enlarged blood vessels
- An inability of the penis to retract properly. This last point is among the reasons why I suspect valve damage. Dorsal vein valve damage could cause issues with.. “draining the penis”? The pain can be triggered by my pushing on blood vessels.

What I have tried:

- I immediately stopped jelqing following the injury
- I was at first advised by doctors to continue normal sexual activity, but as time went on and I did not heal, I began limiting sexual activity and arousal. For nearly a year, I have been celebate. For the last several months, I have avoided erections and masturbation altogether because of increasing concern and discomfort.
- I have consulted with my general physician and multiple urologists. None have been able to diagnose my condition or offer therapeutic options. All they’ve done is rule out tunica albuginea injury.
- One doctor ran an MRI which did not reveal any abnormalities.
- At my last urologist appointment, the doctor half-heartedly offered to run a penile ultrasound, but didn’t indicate that any helpful information might be provided by this. Moreover, I am concerned that the procedure itself could worsen my condition in the process of provoking a strong erection for the scan.
- To my utter dismay, the doctors I have been in consultation with are not only unknowledgeable about this kind of injury but generally uninterested in my case. I hope that I will find others in this forum who can help me.

What makes the symptoms better:

- Avoiding jostling, irritation, and contact with the penis. I work from home and am able to go without pants, just wearing a towel around my waist
- Lack of erections. I can manage this during waking hours, so that by the end of the day the symptoms are better. I am experimenting with limiting my sleep to limit the number of nightly erections.
- Being parallel to the ground while doing pushups, or while laying on my back both seem to help the penis contract. Perhaps this position gives the valves a break from their role in draining blood.
- I experienced one small window of time, during which I successfully avoided all thoughts of sex and a significant decrease in arousal for a few weeks - no physical, mental or visual stimulation. I believe I began to heal. This period ended unintentionally with a night of strong erections, and I lost all progress. I have not since been able to recreate this state of mind and control over my body.

What makes symptoms worse:

- Erections
- external stimulation or irritation
- Wearing constrictive clothing

No effect:

- cold and warm compresses
- bandaging

Any help would be appreciated. Have you heard of similar injuries? Who could I contact for professional help? Do you know whether valve damage is possible? Would valve damage explain my symptoms?

What is so wrong about getting a doppler/ultrasound? Right now you have problems; why not get whatever test you can to see if there is a physical issue?

The penile doppler ultrasound is the test to evaluate penile blood flow as part of the vascular function evaluation. This is the test which determines if the valves are working properly or not.

Outside penis issues: Why the Lamotrigine? Phenytoin is way easier on you, less weird side effects. Have you tried it and found it ineffective?

Bad stuff.

I have no experience with injuries so I can’t help.

I am interested did you get this injury as a newbie or did you already have a number of months of experience in PE?

Jelqing is thought of as very safe exercises to do so I am baffled that it caused such awful injury.

If all tests turn out to be fine my guess would be nerve injury, my dad got successful hernia operation 3 years ago and still feels as if he has hernia sometimes.

While I had mine 7 months ago and feel no pain whatsoever, only some itching occasionally.

Nerve damage can’t be seen with any scans, but I hope it gets better bro if indeed that is the cause.

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The doctors would induce an artificial erection, and I worried that it would be harmful considering erections open the injury. I assume such an erection would be extra powerful? I am prepared to do an ultrasound if nothing improves soon, especially if you guys recommend it. I would just like to try everything harmless first.

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I am concerned that the strength of an artificially induced erection could cause more damage without any hope of diagnosis or treatment. The urologist didn’t seem to have much hope of a diagnosis through the ultrasound. Do you think it is worthwhile to take the risk?

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I’ve had no side effects from the Lamotrigine, and unlike most antiepileptics, it does not seem to cause bone loss and subsequent osteoporosis. Do you know of unfortunate long-term effects?

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I was fairly new to it, yeah. I probably did something wrong, but I would suggest some caution anyway. Injuries may be underreported because people find them awkward? I certainly waited for a long time.

If I do the tests, which I probably will, I will let you know! I’m certain there is more than nerve damage due to the swelling. I suspect blood vessels have simply been stretched and struggle to heal because of powerful, long-lasting nightly erections.

I appreciate the sympathy, man

Okay so here’s your choice; you can either go and let the docs look with a doppler or you can stay the way you are. Your choice.

I’m sorry, I quoted you in my post above but pasted the question of the guy before you.

So you think that a doppler ultrasound would be able to identify valve damage and potentially stretched blood vessels? Do you know if erections induced artificially for doppler ultrasounds are more powerful and long lasting?

Thanks for your reply.

Well, I was hoping that someone would suggest alternative treatment options ;) There is no point doing a test without any hope of diagnosis and treatment. But yes, that seems to be the way things are going.

It is in doing the test that you get a diagnosis and then treatment. Without a diagnosis you could be doing more harm than good!

Yes, if no one has any suggestions of safer treatments or knows more about whether an MR can reveal injuries likely from jelqing, it seems like an MR is my best bet. Hopefully, a diagnosis can result in treatment. Thanks for your reply.

Ultrasound *

This may be a dumb question, but do you ride a bicycle? Have the doctors looked into possible nerve damage, such as pudendal neuralgia? Any pain in your sack or taint area connected with this?

Hey buddy:

I have a very similar problem to you. Can you PM me? We can strategize this together

Hi Peter69

Mate I know nothing yet about injuries and healing because I have just began.

However I have a consultation next month regarding the P-shot.

Have a look into this, seems really good for penis health but especially for healing injuries.

This is the same high concentration platelets they use to heal/accelerate healing in athletes.

Its your own blood they use so no adverse reactions as far as I’m aware.

Best of luck hope this provides another avenue of hope trying to get this sorted.

Regards

James