I have been experiencing the same problems. I heard what seemed to be an innocuous pop at the left dorsal base of the penis after stretching. My penis is now hard and turtles when flaccid, when I stand up. When I’m sitting or lying down, it’s not as hard. My penis is sore if I try to squeeze it. I also have a pain like a pulled muscle in the perineum, but I believe this was from a separate incident. I’ve seen two urologists in the past two days and they both told me absolutely nothing is wrong. Actually, today there were two urologists that saw me and they both were kind of laughing at my concerns and told me to wait a month and it will heal.
I have a terrible feeling that this is not going to be healed in a month. I am trying to gather a group of people with similar symptoms so that we can all go to a special doctor and request some serious tests and investigation. By special I mean a center that solely focuses on innovative treatments for penile trauma. I know that Cornell has a fairly good center but I will do more research. THERE IS POWER IN NUMBERS AND I FEEL THAT THIS IS THE ONLY WAY ANY OF THESE UROLOGISTS WILL BELIEVE OUR CONDITION IS REAL.
I really feel like I severed a blood vessel and that was the popping sound that I heard. I used to have two PROMINENT veins that came from the center base dorsally and then each wrapped around the sides to the underside of the penis where they ran up towards the glans. The one on the left where I heard the pop is now gone.
I have tried to explain this to the urologists but they will not listen to me. They say that the vessels that cause an erection are deep within the penis. I have a feeling that the subcutaneous arteries that I am referring to might be responsible for supplying blood to the penis while flaccid. This is why the penis turtles because it is not receiving enough blood flow in a soft flaccid state. It turtles so the entire penis can be oxygenated while in the flaccid state.
All the urologists say that if a vessel ruptured your penis would swell up like a balloon and you would see discoloration. I really believe they are referring to symptoms of a broken penis in which a large artery is ruptured and blood fills the penis. These arteries are not as large and I believe that they can clot more easily which keeps these swelling and discoloration symptoms from appearing.
PLEASE FIND ANYONE WITH THESE SYMPTOMS AND HAVE THEM REPORT TO THIS THREAD. Like I said I have a sick feeling that this is not going to be better within a month, and I want to have an army of people with similar symptoms that can all stick up for each other. I will check back to this thread on a daily basis. Hopefully people will respond over time.
Like most others I cannot get this out of my head and it is beginning to drive me absolutely crazy. The fact that no one believes me when I try to explain this to them is even worse. I know I don’t have an MD but I’m not an idiot and can understand the basics of anatomy and physiology.
Please respond and search for others to refer to this thread. Thank you.