please don't tell me this is nerve damage...

I read up on the threads about nerve damage and it’s the closest diagnosis I could come up with, but I just wanted to make sure, because I REALLY do not want to quit now as I am the middle of a stellar growth spurt (.375 inches length in about a month and a half— I am not a newbie by the way… This was following a 2 month plateau after some previous significant gains).

Basically I can’t recall any single incident where my dick went bananas and something painful occurred etc. No blood or anything. Just out of nowhere, I woke up and my dick was sort of throbbing/tingling near the glans. I’m not sure if tingle is the right term. You know the feeling you get when your leg falls asleep and you move it around a bit? It’s kind of an extremely MILD version of that in the glans. It doesn’t happen all the time I move it around, but it’s slightly more noticeable with erections. Is this the definitive nerve damage tingling that everyone is talking about? Please tell me it’s not.

As far as numbness goes, I’m not the best to explain how that feels. The reason I came into PE was because I was one of those 20 year olds with ED. In other words, my dick had issues to begin with. Before PE I couldnt even get myself off with my hands. I’ve since overcome that, but I can’t tell you whether the sensation is tremendous or not. I can still get myself off, but there is that mild throb/tingle feeling sometimes. I don’t know if its blood rushing out or what. Again, no blood coming out of the dick, and no bruises (indicating a venous leak).

Another aspect I’m wondering about was my edging technique. On my new program I decided to never masturbate to the point of ejaculation. Does that affect gains? It’s been asked over and over ad nauseum, but my take was that it couldn’t hurt to cut it, and it quite possibly helped to do so. However, my method was to balloon/edge at the end of each session and call it quits RIGHT before the floodgates opened… I’m talking if a gust of air hit my dick the right way I’d lose it. Once the throbbing came up, I decided maybe doing this 5 days a week for 6 weeks wasn’t healthy so I finally let off steam. The throbbing feeling is still there though, so that wasn’t the cure, although it’s perhaps a bit milder.

To sum up, no bruises, pain, blood, etc. Mild version of that feeling you get when your leg/foot falls asleep in the glans. I’m not really in the position to see a doctor for every little tingle I get in my body from time to time. Last but not least, I am not a crazy person, and this is not all in my head. Thanks.

Oh yeah and I also have a cold right now. Although it’s almost done…

50 views and no one can help me out? Aside from that one now-deleted comment.

No idea. Not to make light of your situation, but this throbbing and tingling sounds like it could be pleasurable - if its throbbing, are you just having really good erections?

Also, a mild tingling is often apparent when a nerve is bruised and has begun to repair itself. Not sure if tingling can signify nerve damage. There are a lot of people with a medical background on here, hopefully one of them can help.

With the edging, I have never heard of it being damaging, not to say its not possible. But I would really doubt edging has somehow damaged you.

You haven’t given enough information for anyone to give much help. And you need to be fairly cautious about who you take advice off on the subject of injuries; there is plenty of well intentioned but uninformed advice out there.

When did it start/how long have you had it?

Has it become any better or worse since you first noticed it?

How much and what PE did you continue to do after first noticing it?

Have you ever had any similar sensations in the past associated to your ED before starting PE?

What does your routine consist of? If for example you were tightening a hanger over the area, that could potentially cause problems. Were you jelqing too high up the shaft etc.?

About 2 days ago.

I suppose it’s slightly dwindled today, although today was “not fuck around with penis” day. It hasn’t gotten worse.

My routine consists of a morning stretch component and a more girth focused night component. I did the stretch yesterday, and began the jelqing that night, but after the tingling kept returning I called it quits after that (as I mentioned before I thought maybe it was due to my edging techniques so I ended it with huge sexytime explosion. To no avail of course).

You know, now that I think about it, it actually quite possibly occured before, but I couldn’t tell you if it had anything to do with ED. I’ve had issues getting myself off with hands for as long as I can remember, but it never dawned on me that it was a real problem until I started having sex much later.

In all, I do manual stretches in the morning, and wet jelqs, o-bends, and uli’s at night. sometimes I throw in the squeezes and fowfers at night too.

I’d rather not sacrifice some precious nerves in my dick to please her, that’s for sure. If it means that it’s repairing then that’s a good, short term thing, correct?

OK, it’s definitely not time to start panicking yet.

That’s promising.

Take a few days off totally. See if it continues to improve with rest. I think it will. Keep us up to date in this thread.

That’s interesting. If you have always watched a lot of porn, stop watching any for a whole month. Seriously.

If you don’t already use something like a square of toilet paper to help with grip, start using one. It enables a good grip with far less grip pressure. Avoid excess grip pressure on the top of the penis directly below the glans. When jelqing, avoid the last 3/4” below the glans.

I wish you a speedy recovery. Keep us up to date.

Thanks for the reassurance. I’ll lay off the rest of this week. As far as that ED thing goes, PE has sufficiently taken care of it (which makes me very happy), although I am still in “marathon man” status (borderline TOO long). I’ll let you know the results, although I must ask… can we rule out nerve damage, or is it still quite possible? I’m guessing only those who’ve had it before can relate to the “sleeping leg” description.

I can relate to it because I spend a large part of my working life dealing with problems affecting nerves. There are various degrees of nerve damage, but I think all you have done is very slightly ‘bruise’ a nerve. Give it a rest for a few days and you should see day-on-day improvement.

Nothing you are doing, according to your post, is likely to have caused major trauma, and you would likely have far worse symptoms if you had.

Obviously it is not possible to do more than guess over the internet, but it’s an educated guess.

The results:

1. The sensation has disappeared. Looks like it was a short term phenomenon. Whew!

2. I lost a bit of that (not so hard earned) length I was acquiring over the past month. I just began my routine again today and looks like it’s slowly returning. If I get phenomenal gains from this minus the injuries I’ll be sure to post again!

Do what Firegoat says. Read the third line in my signature, hey this can even happen to season vets. So don’t get all guilty on yourself over it. I did this about 6 years ago. The cause I’m not certain I had ED so it could of been from lack of use, who knows.

It disappeared? Or reappeared?

I’m pleased to hear things are getting back to normal for you 4thewind. Good luck with the future gains. :)

what i meant was the (bad) sensation like a “sleepy leg” disappeared, which is a good thing.