Peyronie’s Disease and Sex Safety Concerns

Posted on August 27, 2009March 18, 2013 by Dr.Herazy

Safety with a curved penis

Couples are always concerned if they can safely engage in sexual activity, especially during the early phase of Peyronie’s disease treatment.

The short answer is, YES. Sex is good on may levels for you as individual people and as a couple, so go for it. You can and should engage in as much sexual activity you are comfortable with and desire, during treatment and in spite of your Peyronie’s disease.

The longer answer is, YES, but you must be careful and cautious in exactly how and what you do during sex. Careful, gentle, non-stressful sex is certainly the safe and smart goal fore care of the erection. As the owner of the Peyronie's curved penis, it is important to stay in control of yourself, and your partner should do the same, without becoming so carried away that you injure yourself further. You are the only one who is going to suffer further if you bend or jamb yourself during sex, so it is your ultimate responsibility to be careful.

If any sexual activity or position causes ANY amount of pain or distress to either of you, it should be stopped. Pain is your signal that something is wrong. Do not do anything further to even slightly injure your penis while you are spending all this time, effort and money trying to get well. Figure out other ways to enjoy sex without generating a pain response, and you will do fine.

Slow and careful does not mean dull. It should mean more passionate sex, taking more time doing what feels good, all based on better communication between the two of you.

Please make sure that you do not attempt sexual entry too early, if she is too dry or otherwise unprepared for intercourse. If you usually do not need to use any external lubrication (water-based lubricant like K-Y jelly), it is simply a smart thing to start using it now. This is a vital step to prevent further injury, since a second injury could be catastrophic.

Do not use positions and techniques in which the man does not control movement and activity. Rear-entry sex positions are usually safer to use since they allow the man more control, but caution is still needed.

"Peyronie's Disease and Sex"

The topic of sex in relation to Peyronie’s disease is immense. When I began writing my first PD book, I intended to combine the topics of Peyronie’s disease treatment and sex all in one book. When it became apparent how large this sex topic is, I simply decided a separate book would have to be written; it eventually became “Peyronies Disease and Sex.”

Any questions about sex and Peyronie’s disease? Send them along at the heading on the right column, “Ask Dr. Herazy…”

Peyronie’s disease treatment and Viagra, Cialis and Levitra

Posted on August 17, 2009March 18, 2013 by Dr.Herazy

Questions about Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, and Peyronie's disease

Boy, do I get questions about Viagra, Cialis and Levitra and Peyronie's disease! Most of these questions come from men who are taking these drugs on the advice of their MDs who using it as part of their Peyronies treatment efforts.

These drugs are wildly popular, not only among men who have erectile difficulty (Peyronie's disease impotence) but also healthy men who merely use them to have longer lasting and more repetitive sexual intercourse.

Sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it?

While I hate to spoil the fun, but over the years I have had a disturbing number of men tell me they know their PD started after using Viagra, Cialis, etc. The erections created by these drugs are indeed super-erections and get to be that way because of the greater than normal internal pressure that is created within the tunica albuginea. This is powerful stuff that can really cause problems in this delicate area of the male body.

These drugs create such hard and long-lasting erections because they induce an abnormal state in the penis. What if you could take a drug that would enable you to lift a ton of weight above your head and keep it there for an hour? Nice trick, very impressive, but your body is not built to take that kind of pressure. It would cause great damage to internal organs, your spine, your blood vessels, all major joints, etc. Simply put, “It just ain’t natural.” Same with Peyronie's treatment with Viagra, and the rest of these products.

As much as it might sound like a dream come true, the penis is not built to sustain increased internal pressures that are created by these drugs, and the penis is not built to have hour after hour of intercourse. That kind of activity can be abusive to the delicate tunica. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

I have an interesting story from a man who called me a few months back and explained that he injured his penis in a most unusual way. He and his wife had used Viagra for the first time to their mutual delight. Both of them went to sleep, except his penis continued to stay erect. It was a monster of an erection and at first he thought it was great. During the night, while asleep with a huge erection, he rolled over in bed and jammed his penis into the mattress. He felt a great pain and felt the tissue “pop.” Basically he tried to pole vault on his erection and he found his penis could not sustain that force. About two months later he developed PD. Can you imagine what would happen if you already have Peyronies disease and had something like that happened? You would go from bad to worse. This man did.

I know many men with PD have their MDs write prescriptions for these erections drugs. I am sympathetic why men do these things. They figure if it was not good for them the MD would now do it. What they forget is that most MDs do not understand or care about PD, and are more interested in getting the fee for the office visit, than doing what is the smart thing to do. MDs also perform surgery for PD that makes the problem worse, knowing there is a high rate of poor surgical results from this kind of surgery. Just because you can get a prescription for it doesn’t make it any safer or any less stupid in the long run.

Use your head and stay away from these forced erections.

One last metaphor. Your car tires are designed to hold 40 pounds of air pressure. What would happen if you decided to increase the pressure to 80 pounds, just for “the fun of it?” Well, first of all, we would all understand the tire would be much more likely to blow up and pull away from the rim because it was not built to be used that way. It would be damaged by applying more pressure to it than it was built to take. Enough said.

Peyronie's Disease Institute has access to some really great Oriental herbal erection enhancing – not forcing – products. These will easily and gently boost your erectile ability but not in such a forceful way that you will get hurt. They surely do work, but with no side effects, they last a good 8-12 hours, and they are a whole lot less expensive than your prescription drugs. Let me know if you are interested and I will give you some information about these wonderful and safe products.

Average Time for Peyronie’s Disease Treatment to See Results

Posted on August 14, 2009March 18, 2013 by Dr.Herazy

Peyronie's disease treatment averages

There are no averages with Peyronie’s disease. Everything about Peyronie’s disease is up for grabs. And for sure there is no average time within which men respond to Peyronie’s disease treatment. Some men respond in a few weeks, others take months, and some not at all. There are those who email me saying they are not responding to Peyr0nie's treatment. After questioning them, I usually find they made the mistake of either using a plan that is too small or not faithfully following the plan they have. PD is a tough problem and you must be dedicated to eliminating the problem – half efforts do not work. What we propose at PDI is a concept for Peyronie's disease therapy that is not so earth shattering or extreme. All we are doing is attempting to figure out why your PD did not correct like about 50% of the men who develop this problem. If half of the men “cure” their own PD, why not you? That is all we are attempting to address with our therapy concept. It is really not so far out as some of the other things you find on the Internet. All standard medical information about PD clearly states that in half of the cases, the Peyronies “goes away on its own.” The Peyronie’s disease treatment approach promoted by PDI is to do all that is necessary to prepare the body to heal on its own, just as it should happen, just as happens in half of the cases. In this sense you can say that a natural Peyronie's cure is about 50% effective. It is really not such a crazy or extreme idea. PDI advocates that an aggressive use of multiple conservative Alternative Medicine therapies, as outlined in our website, an assist the body to heal the Peyronie's plaque or scar better than if that effort were not extended. Since 2002 it is my experience that those men who follow the largest and most aggressive therapy plan will usually get the best results. For those interested in doing all that can be done to promote healing and repair, the “Large (Best) Plan” is designed for maximum personal treatment. The Medium Plan is the most popular of the three plans offered by PDI. There is also a Small Plan that is well designed. It is very common for men to substitute Neprinol in place of the two smaller products, Nattokinase and Serrapeptase in any of the plans. All can be modified to suit your thinking about therapy.

Aggressive Peyronie's treatment is usually best

Peyronie’s disease treatment must be followed aggressively and faithfully because PD is a very difficult and stubborn problem to treat successfully. For any level of correction of the problem be prepared to spend time and effort to build up the strength of the immune response. It can be done; I talk to men everyday who are doing it. I would be pleased to answer any specific questions you have about treatment. I will be happy to give you the best of my thinking about what you might want to do to change the direction your problem is heading. Simply ask a question at the end of this blog post. I have worked with hundreds and hundreds of men, some mild and some severe, some just a few months and a few more than 10 years old. I had a pretty bad PD problem until I cured my condition using the procedures found in the book I wrote – the "Peyronie's Disease Handbook" – and the same Alternative Medicine ideas as on the website. Success against PD is not determined by how bad the problem is at the start of care or how soon you start treatment; it seems to be determined by intensity of effort. You do not have to feel like a victim if you are working to improve your health and immune response against the presence of this foreign tissue. Peyronie’s Disease Institute is available to offer information and suggestions for effective care. The PDI website offers ideas and information you will not find anywhere. If you want some help and ideas that you are not now getting, I would be pleased to help you along.

Nine Causes of Pain in the Penis

Posted on August 9, 2009March 18, 2013 by Dr.Herazy

Peyronie's disease not the only cause of penis pain

Peyronie’s disease often causes pain during erection because the shortened scar tissue located in the tunica albuginea cannot lengthen, and causes pain. Occasionally, men will also report penis pain when erect and non-erect; some men will even report never having pain during erection but only when non-erect or flaccid.

Since pain is often a part of the Peyronie’s disease landscape, let us take a closer look at penis pain that occurs only during sexual activity, with the most common causes being listed first. .

Peyronie’s disease is a common explanation when men have sexual pain, but it is not the only one. See your doctor for an official diagnosis, but here are some other culprits.

Poor sexual technique and insufficient foreplay to cause adequate sexual lubrication. Rushing into genital penetration before the female partner is adequately prepared sexually can be painful due to the vagina being dry and too contracted. Use of adequate sexual lubrication can be extremely helpful.

Prostatitis is an inflammation or infection of the prostate gland that can cause swelling and pain in the area behind your penis (just below your bladder), pain or burning when urinating, and painful ejaculation.

Genital herpes can cause a sore on the penis that results in very painful sex. In addition to avoiding sexual contact with a partner during an outbreak because these sores are extremely infectious, part of the therapy for herpes is to refrain from sex in any case.

Urinary tract infections anywhere from the bladder to the tip of the urethra (urinary tube that runs the length of the penis to pass urine out of the body). This needs to be treated rapidly, because they can spread and become very serious.

Yeast infections of any part of the urinary tract are often accompanied by itching or burning at the tip of the penis.

Allergies and dermatitis caused by sensitivity to chemicals or soaps can result in inflammation of the skin on the penis, especially for those men who are uncircumcised.

Psoriasis of is a non-infectious chronic skin condition that results in scaly, itchy and painful red patches. These are usually treated with low-dose steroid creams. When psoriasis of the penis develops, sexual contact can be painful.

Phimosis is a condition of the penis in which the foreskin, also called the prepuce, is too tight to be completely retracted over the head of the penis. Movement of this tight skin during sexual activity can be very painful.

Paraphimosis is a similar condition in which the tight foreskin becomes stuck behind the head of the penis. Low grade infections can develop, and reduced blood flow to the area can occur, either or both of which are very painful.

Any pain that develops during sex should be investigated by a medical doctor.

For a more in-depth discussion about matters of penis pain, and the role of Peyronie’s disease in sexual activity, please refer to my book, “Peyronie’s Disease & Sex”

Peyronie’s Disease Treatment Blog to Help You

Posted on August 3, 2009March 18, 2013 by Dr.Herazy

Peyronie’s disease blog

Peyronie’s disease is surrounded by a world of misinformation, honest differences of opinion, lack of judgment, as well as total confusion.

Every week I get at least one email from someone who is newly diagnosed with Peyronie’s disease, but doubts that he has it. The email will explain that the writer doubts he has Peyronie’s disease because he has heard that there is a Peyronie’s plaque or scar involved, and since he cannot see one, he doubts the diagnosis is correct. He asks me to tell him if I think he has Peyronies, solely based on the information that his penis is bent.

What does this have to do with Peyronie's disease treatment and blogging? Well, with this Peyronie’s Disease Treatment Forum blog available to any man or woman who deals with the problem of PD, it is far easier to create a library of information and ideas about Peyronie’s disease treatment using Alternative Medicine.

If you are reading this blog looking for answers to an important question, you owe it to yourself and to the larger Peyronie’s disease community to ask that burning question about your problem that you would like explained. There is a very good chance that other people would also like to know more about that same issue. Without your participation in this blog, it will not reach its full potential to help you and others with Peyronie’s disease.

Questions in these areas? Fire away:

Anatomy of the male or female genitals
Erections – how do they happen, why is mine weaker than before, how to increase and strengthen mine
Peyronies disease – any aspect
Peyronie’s disease treatment – any aspect of medical, surgical or Alternative Medicine treatment
Intercourse – any aspect
Relationship problems – any aspect
Your treatment plan is not going the way you thought it would

Please ask your questions and make your comments to those who have left a comment here. In this way the misinformation, honest differences of opinion, lack of judgment, as well as total confusion of some, can be lifted.