Glans injury - white patches and dots

Hi guys,

First up, have to say this is a great site / forum, with a lot of informative, knowledgeable and helpful members. I’m hoping one or two of those might be able to provide some advice on my injury issue..

Long story short is that I started PE about two months ago - starting with the Newbie routine but quickly building up over time. I am pretty sure, however, that I built up my routine’s intensity too quickly as a result of over eagerness, and from a lack of any ‘newbie’ gains that I was hoping for. My penis showed no negative effects and I experienced no pain or discomfort, and I gradually increased my routing to include 20-25 mins of stretching, and 20 mins of quite forceful jelqing. During the last week of PE I spent 5-10 mins of the jelqing portion to concentrate on glans work - I.e holding the blood in the glans for 10 seconds after each jelq.

Roughly two weeks ago (after six weeks of PE) I noticed a couple of white patches on the underside of the glans, as well as a handful of tiny white dots on white side of the tip. At the time they appeared slightly raised and of a slightly different texture to the rest of the glans - somewhat like a blister, however since then they have been flat. I have done a lot of reading on this site and a couple of others, which discuss a range of injuries, including those to the glans, however these seem to mostly discuss darker patches / spots which are a result of tiny blood blisters etc. I am unable to find any useful or relevant information as to lighter patches, hence my post. I have attached a couple of photos which I feel will help explain my situation better, however one thing that the camera is unable to pick up is a bluish vein within one of the white patches (possible partial thrombosis?). If you look closely, you can also see a tiny dark ‘hole’ or ‘crater’ within one of the patches under the skin - the skin remains unbroken and flat, however underneath there appears to be a tiny bit of missing flesh, as though the flesh has died perhaps? Red dots or bruising would not concern me so much, and I know these would likely disappear within a few days, however these white patches and (including a blue tiny vein in one, and a few tiny dark ‘craters’ under the skin in the other) has left me very worried. From all the reading I have done, I have so far abstained from all PE for over two weeks to allow the chance to heal, and am avoiding excessive erections (other than occasional sex or partial masturbation to get the blood flow going). I am massaging bio oil into the glans 2-3 times per day, continuing to use a IR lamp for 5-10 mins a day to promote further circulation, and am consuming supplements such as ginseng, Maca, omega 3, zinc, tribulus etc. I will of course continue with all the above, and know that ‘rest until it heals’ is most likely to be the most common advice, but would really appreciate any other knowledge or thoughts. My main questions are -

Why are the patches white, as oppose to red or a darker colour?
Are the tiny ‘craters’ within the patches necrosis or tissue death of some sort?
Is the tiny blue vein an example of thrombosis?
Other than rest and the above mentioned current healing routine, what else can I do to help / speed up healing?
Is it possible that the injuries could be permanent?
What is a likely time frame for healing?

Thanks in advance for any assistance. Apologies if this needs to be in the ‘Injuries’ forum, as I have not been able to post there as yet.

The only possible injury from the type of PE you have done is varicose veins or the walls of small veins giving out and enlarging from too high pressure. I dont think you have anything wrong from the looks of your pictures but Im not a trained urologist. However I can tell you nothing serious can happen from what you have done only the very smallest most superficial veins can become varicose veins from jelqing so no real damage can be done. Hopefully hearing this will make you feel better. As to my guess on what has happened I guess you have a possible friction blister or a number of them in the glans.

Thanks for the reply and your thoughts.

I have been applying bio oil, and applied heat regularly, as well as vigorous rubbing to remove the top layer of skin and promote new skin ‘growth’ and improve circulation. Two of the three white patches have largely disappeared (although one or two tiny white / blue veins can still be seen if looked at closely), but one white patch has remained and is drier than the surrounding skin, almost like a sunken scab. For this I’ve been applying Solosite which promotes moist wound healing and seems to be helping somewhat.

I’d really like to resume P.E but am wary of re-injuring the area. I’m wondering if light jelqing / stretching could actually help heal the area further by increasing circulation (temporarily) or if it would be detrimental to healing altogether.

I would leave PE for when your completely healed. A gentle massage wouldn’t hurt.

Thanks for the advice. In your experience, can you also recommend anything else other than rest and massage, (and the above mentioned things I’ve tried) to help with healing of these particular injuries, or varicose veins in the glans?

I have always had quite poor circulation, which is noticeable in P.E in terms of the penis sometimes feeling quite cold to the touch. I’m wondering if that may have contributed to the initial injury (and lack of gains) and be hindering healing? I’ve tried numerous herbs, supplements and forms of heat to improve circulation, but as yet haven’t found anything that particularly helps all that much.

Circulation is an issue for a qaulified medical professional.

That looks like a completely normal and healthy glans. Maybe these pictures aren’t capturing the situation. But if they are, I wouldn’t consider it an injury at all.

The photos don’t really show the tiny bluish / white veins (possible thrombosis) or extent of the white patches, but that’s interesting to hear you don’t think it’s an injury at all. I have always had a slightly paler glans than most (most likely from poor circulation), and was actually hoping that P.E might help make it slightly darker / redder. I don’t want the rest of my penis to get any darker, just the glans, but doubt there’d be a way to isolate this?

Are there any ways to darken or redden a pale glans over time that people know of? I tried forcing and holding blood into the glans for 10 seconds at a time (mainly to increase glans size) but combined with potentially over vigorous jelqing I believe this may have had the opposite effect (and caused the above-mentioned injuries). I know people often report darkening of the shaft, for which I’ve been rolling the skin for a few minutes between my fingers post-workout to help avoid, but does anyone report a darker glans from P.E in general?

I think this has to do with our circulatory system where a ”shower” has a constant semi erection (yes unless you are in your minimum turtled retracted state you are not fully flaccid) and bc of always being engorged from natural circulation the penis tissues become less elastic and less prone to retract. I think a small glans and pale glans is individual variety of bloodflow to the groin area. With lack of bloodflow you have to take horny goat weed or cialis every day to get better bloodflow but it is an uphill battle against your own bad circulatory system that doesnt think the penis is important.

Can you site any sources for your beliefs?

It’s not really to do with flaccid size or glans size. I’m pretty happy with both - I’ve just always thought a mushroom shaped and even bigger glans would be pretty cool, hence the glans-specific jelqing. But yeah if I could also redden or darken the glans it would be a good bonus! I’ve looked into circulatory improvement like the horny goat weed you mentioned, but supplements like these are only temporary, and I’m also looking for something longer term in terms of colouring.

[disclaimer] pure speculation :)

There are amazing athletes at the gym I attend. They turtle all of the time. I would “speculate” they don’t have poor circulation, need Cialis or Horny Goat Weed.

Yeah I just think that some peoples circulatory system are routed in a way that prefers giving blood to the groin area, and most people kind of circumvent the penis and groin totally when blood is needed more in muscles etc. Others, they always have lots of blood in their penis regardless of what they do, and I’m sure this is about how the circulatory system is wired so to speak. Not going to name names here but there is one certain bodybuilder very famous who has a huge penis (he has done some nude scenes) and he obviously is turtled when competing. So yeah not poor circulation except for a tendency to turtle which is normal but bad if you want a big penis all the time. Evolutionary it would probably be advantageous because routing all the blood to muscles would give better athletic performance. But there are some people that always have bloodflow to their penis and even profess they sweat the majority of their sweat from their penis and balls.