Forgot the Jelqing Fundamentals, Now I Have a Serious Problem

I will try my best to keep this short and sweet. I believe that my uber long post on another forum was part of the reason that barely anyone answered.

I’ve been doing PE exercises on and off, though mostly off,since the age of 18, now I’am 23. I know how to jelq and the rules that come with it. Unfortunately, on Aug. 20 I stupidly chose to ignore one of the most important rules to follow: Unless you have been doing PE consistently for awhile, DO NOT jelq at 100% EQ/erection for any long period of time, because your penis isn’t used to it and can possibly cause an injury. This is exactly what I did, jelqed at 100% EQ about 50 times in a row, quickly and with some force all the way up to the head.

I did do a warm up/cool down before and after the exercise. For about a day I didn’t feel any pain, didn’t see anything unusual on me at all, so I lived on. Soon after that though, a sharp, needle like pain coupled with a warm/cool sensation began to appear on the left side of my member, just below the head so in the glans and down left to the base. The pain during the first week was excruciating, I honestly don’t know how I dealt with it everyday while walking around a college campus.

At this time I didn’t know about rice socks, the effects of the 5 G’s, L-Arginine, zinc, etc. So my injury went untreated for about a month and a half, and then I finally started here and there to do rice socks at least 2 times a day and take Opti-Men multivitamin, which has a lot of the ingredients like zinc that I mentioned previously.

Its now been almost 5 months since, and my injury has still not fully healed.I have been very slowly but surely making progress, week by week. Coming from where I was in August to what I am now is a big improvement, but I’ve still got the warm/cool sensation, but now mostly when I get excited. While I get morning woods, random erections and hard-ons from pictures and video and the like, but my EQ has not yet gotten back to what it was on Aug. 20 and I believe I’ve also lost some sensitivity. I’d say now my overall EQ is more like 90% with the entire left side a bit smaller than its opposite, so clearly not fully 100%. Basically it looks lopsided, favoring my right. I was messing around with a girl just a few hours ago and she was trying to get me up but the little guy barely responded to her hands or mouth, the loss of sensitivity meant I could barely feel her mouth on me at all, and my EQ only got up to about 30%, so she quit soon after trying for about 5 minutes (we had just woken up so she was sleepy).

Because of my loss of health insurance, I’ve been unable to visit a urologist and get the proper scans and tests, but its something I intend to do as soon as I can. I know no one on here are doctors so no need to add that disclaimer in your responses.

Does anyone have any clue as to what I did to myself and what if anything I can do to speed up the healing process?

Thank you for answering.

You need more rest. That’s pretty much what a doctor is going to tell you, aside from maybe giving you some NSAIDs and steroidal cream. You’re probably looking at another good 3 or 4 months of not touching your dick except to pee, and a daily aspirin with several warm up sets through out the day.

I don’t know what else to tell you except every veteran (like myself) has been there before and done something stupid, if not killed their erection for a good while. Don’t worry about it, just let it heal on it’s own. And when you’re ready to start back up put more focus into edging and the lightest possible jelqs you can imagine.

This sounds kind of similar to what I did on September 30. I don’t have the hot/cold sensation, but I do experience off and on sharp pain that can change location and sensation that began when I was squeezing too hard while jelqing. However, I never described the pain as “excruciating” (more very light and brief for the most part) and my sensitivity hasn’t been affected really. EQ has definitely been compromised, and I believe I am slightly smaller from midshaft to glans. I’ve had successful sex since then, but the EQ just hasn’t been where it needs to be, and I was actually unable to get it up one time. Some of this is probably performance anxiety. I haven’t been able to go more than a week without masturbating since the injury, and everybody keeps telling me I need rest.

Its good that you’ve seen some linear improvement. I can’t say that I have, but I guess rest is what we need for now.

Yeah I recently saw a doctor about a separate issue so I had the chance to on the sly ask him what I could do about this and he said almost the exact same thing as you, I needed to continue to leave it alone completely. Although when I told him I was taking supplements with Ginkgo Biloba and the like as well as doing heat wraps he said stop doing both of those things, which made absolutely no sense to me at all. The heat wraps especially because soon after I do them I no longer feel the pain or uncomfortable feeling in my glans for a little while. No offense but I hope you are wrong about the 3+ months of healing left, I’ve got a birthday next month.lol

I still need to get some insurance so I can talk to my old urologist without fearing going broke from the tests he will surely recommend I do.

Why exactly would NSAIDs or aspirin help this issue?

Thank you for answering.

@WangSlanga

Sorry to hear that man, I sincerely hope your injury heals completely. One thing I’ve learned during this experience is to not let my mind kill the body. It has much more power than we give it credit for, and performance anxiety will kill your EQ even if we were 100%. I’m definitely thankful for the linear improvement, I obviously wish it would improve faster.

Thank you for answering.

It sound like a tunica tear. It will heal over time, I think gently stretching your penis everyday and/or using an extender at low tension could help avoiding the shortening that could develop from scar tissue. Vitamin E and B complex should help also. Aspirin as an anti- coaugulant action which I’m not sure could be helpful in this case. I would try a way to be checked by an urologist.

I injured myself jelqing in September of last year. The injury was likely nerve damage, and it is now one year later. It took me almost 8 months before I saw any improvement, but I did see improvement. Now, over 1 year later things are much better, but still not 100%. Sex in a tight pussy inflames it and sometimes feels very bad/awkward - but at least the sharp pains are almost gone. I’m giving it one more year before I do any PE, and I’m ditching the jelq altogether and sticking to manual stretches and maybe hanging down the road. This has been a huge set back for me but I want you to know that there is hope of at least improvement.

If it’s a nerve injury (I would guess so since it’s been 5 months and you are still injured), be aware that nerves are very slow to heal, if at all. If you’ve seen some improvement, that’s a good sign and you should continue to rest your dick, avoid PE and let it heal.

As for supplements to speed recovery, I recommend a month or two of a B-50 Complex supplement (B-100 can be too much vitamin B and actually be detrimental to nerve healing). Also L Lysine (again, get the lowest dosage you can find). Both of these have been shown to speed nerve recovery, however be aware that supplementation in general is often counterproductive. It causes your body to work harder to process all these excess compounds, and often the supplements you can buy at a store are way overloaded with a great excess of the amount the body really needs. That is why I suggest only one month or two of B-50, then stop all supplementation and go natural for a while. Mix it up. Take an off day or two every week as well, where you don’t supplement at all. Personally, I only took the L Lysine a few times and then stopped altogether because it messed with my sleep. The B-50 though I was on for several months and I do feel that it helped, although I’m glad I stopped afterwards and went sans-supplements after that. Another issue is when to take the supplements - never first thing in the morning. Always after a meal when your stomach is primed with lots of acid and ready to better process everything. And take the B-50 and L Lysine after different meals - you don’t want them both in your stomach simultaneously, competing with each other for absorption.

B-50 (b12 in particular) and L-Lysine were recommended to me by an online urologist, as well as Cialis. I’d highly recommend Cialis (go get a free sample from a general physician, should be more than enough. Look for the lowest dose - 5mg. Explain your issue or lie and say you have ED and want to try it). Take a Cialis once every 72 hours for a week or two. Then try it only once per week or once every other week after that. It greatly improves bloodflow to your unit and thus increases the potential for healing - fresh oxygenated bloodflow and more of it.

Try these and just give it time man. You may have to put PE off for a long while unfortunately, and maybe abandon it altogether. I know that I myself had to - I was jelqing lightly and correctly, but even the newbie routine was way too much for me. As I am in desperate need of girth, but found my dick too sensitive for girth exercises, I had to find another way for girth - an actual outpatient procedure rather than manual PE. PM me if you want details, but I won’t discuss it here as I don’t want to encourage other people to try a procedure that is potentially risky in the long term (although proven safe in the short term AKA 5 years or less).

Best of luck to you man

Thanks for telling your story, and best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Yeah thats what I’ve read the most about what I could’ve done to myself, being a nerve injury, and read some bad stories, scared the heck outta me. Though I do think its a more physical issue, just that the corpus cavernosum on my left side got stretched too much and is needs to repair itself. I’ve had some more improvement this week, seen recently on Tuesday, as the left side of my glans are finally starting to fill with blood though still not fully like its opposite side and I can see veins in it as well so the blood flow and pain has improved greatly, especially compared to where it was just 3 months ago where it was excruciating. I woke up Tuesday morning with the best morning wood I’ve had in months since this injury, and I think the fresh oxygenated blood helped a lot.

There is still a slight pain, and it still changes from the glans area to my base all on the left side over the course of the day but as of now I can just feel it, sometimes I don’t feel it at all. I think or hoping that I’m just a month away from being 100%, and I just really need to see a urologist or get a urologists’ medical expertise on what I did, how I can finish healing and get back to how it was and as you suggested get a sample of Cialis. I’d like to see what effect that has if any.

I believe that your suggestion is to take B-50 and the L-Lysine as their own entity? I want to ask to be sure and if you or anyone else knows a particular brand that is preferable I would appreciate it. The multivitamin I mentioned before that I take everyday has both B12 and L-Lysine, B12 as cyanocobalamin in a 100 mcg and the L-Lysine as a amino-blend with the other L supplements like Arginine, Glutamine and Valine and 4 others all as 800 mg. I’ve also been taking Bodytech’s LongJax MHT with Arginine which includes MacaPure, Horny Goat Weed and Tribulus terrestris and Fenugreek Seed (610 mg). I was recommended those two supplements by the store manager at Vitamin Shoppe after I tried to get the 5 G’s there. He preferred I get those two instead of the 5 G’s like I wanted so to save money on bottles, though I really still want to try the 5 G’s because they’ve gotten such rave reviews on PE Gym. I can’t quite tell if the LongJax or Fenugreek has helped at all but I spent money on ‘em so I intend to use them until the bottles are empty or I get something better than both.

Thank you for answering.

@Hubbard no problem man, I simply want to have this as a record for myself and for future readers of this site. By God’s grace I will have a happy ending to this thread. Thanks for replying.

To add on, the pain I’m feeling is most often warm/cold sensation that I’ve described earlier, up and down the left side of my shaft but seems to mostly stay in the glans.

God I wish I had never done this to myself. Can’t even begin to tell y’all how angry I am at myself about this.

laxmaniac07:

1) Breathe in , accept.
2) Breath out, release.
3) Repeat.

Instead of reacting to pain as a negative, imagine it as an indicator of where you need to direct healing energy, with your right hand (or if your left feels better, use that).

Ok man, I’m trying, I really am. The functionality of it has improved again more and more as the days go by, it hangs long and thick flaccid like it used to, still some slight pain and still looks lopsided especially when getting erect though. Need to find some way or something to help get it past this last obstacle. I’m so close to being 100% back.

Congrats you just earned yourslef a hernia this is what urogolist will tell straigh away

Pain is still there, though I can think “good” thoughts and get the desired reaction but the left side is still not healed. I don’t know what else to do. Since I got my insurance back I will be seeing a urologist soon, just hope he can be useful and tell me something I can do to fix this once and for all.

Well its been almost a year since my last post. While in this time my member has improved EQ and pain level, its been stuck in this same “almost painless’ stage for about 11 months now. I can see some improvement with the “lopsided” look, and getting erections from thoughts and images has gotten better as well though morning woods have been tough to come by even though in the mornings I can feel my penis trying to get hard but something is blocking or keeping it from doing so. Basically the horniness is there but the nerve damage is still keeping it from being normal.

I went to see 3 doctors in the first 5 months of this year, 2 being urologists. The first one, a regular M.D., said I had peyronie’s when he saw the slight upward curve on me, even though I told him that wasn’t unusual. I then went to see the urologist he recommended and all he told me to do was to take Vitamin E and let it rest , which is the same thing the next urologist told me except he tried to give a name to what I have which was neuropraxia. So in all seeing these three doctors was a waste of my time and insurance, even though I gave them a detailed rundown of what I did to myself. They all told me to do nothing, which is what I’ve been doing since then.

I stopped taking supplements for a long time just to see if it would make a difference at all, but it didn’t so I’ve restarted the B12, L-Carnitine, Fish Oil and flaxseed pill regimen. There is still some small pain that’s still at the very top of the left side of my penis, though it still goes from the top to the very bottom at random times. When I get erect the size is still smaller and less firm than pre-injury, but while lightly masturbating I’ve discovered that the feeling of orgasming has gotten much better than it was before. I can feel it all the way down in my toes again like before pre-injury.

Just a few days ago I noticed when it was flaccid it looked normal, hanging low and looking mostly full like it used to, but then the next day it went back to its new normal hard flaccid/turtling shape, which is very confusing to me.

Since its been so long since my injury (happened August 20, 2013) should I be worried about scar tissue, the kind that can’t be fixed? Is the length of time of my injury normal?

Thank you for reading and replying.

Any update on the situation? I know it’s been a while but I’m in the similar situation right now