Are we risking Peyronie's disease?

For those who don’t know about it, you should read up on Peyronie’s disease, it can be acquired due to trauma to the penis and can cause narrowing and shortening of the penis, along with other serious side-effects. I’m wondering if we’re not pushing our luck…

There are people who have stated PEing helped their curve, I have yet to hear from someone to say PE caused a curve, although I’d imagine its possible.

Hi Teej

I Guess thoughs side effects are long term. This is why I’m taking PE slowly. These side effects probably come as a result of over the top PE training over a long period of time. The science of PE is sound and when put to the test it works. Like all athletes injury is a danger when training, penis athletes are no different.

I would say we are and that is why in the future I will be taking it very slowly like steamon has mentioned, until you have gone over the top and things aren’t acting right downstairs people will probably carry on doing intense workouts, especially newbies.

On the other hand you can cause a lot of damage from just masturbating/sexual intercourse, when you take into account the small percentage of men that do pe, more damage is done from masturbating/sexual intercourse than pe.

Doctors and researchers don’t completely understand what causes Peyronie’s disease. A number of theories exist, including:

Injury to the penis. Trauma to the penis may cause small tears in the tissue, and small blood vessels in the penis can rupture and bleed internally. Penile injuries can be caused by vigorous sexual intercourse or an accident. Abnormal healing can result in the development of hard, thickened scar tissue (plaque) under the skin of the penis. With repetitive trauma, the plaque may develop tough fibrous tissue (fibrosis) or calcium deposits (calcification) and result in the deformity.
Autoimmune disorder. Some studies suggest that Peyronie’s disease may be an autoimmune disorder. A man’s immune system may respond abnormally and cause plaque to form in the penis. However, Peyronie’s disease isn’t related to other autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis or lupus.
Inherited collagen abnormality. Peyronie’s disease may be caused by an inherited abnormality in the genes that regulate the growth fibrous connective tissue proteins (collagen).
Medications. Some drugs may cause Peyronie’s disease as a possible side effect. Most of these drugs belong to a class of blood pressure and heart medications called beta blockers. These drugs are also used to treat glaucoma, multiple sclerosis and seizures. Developing Peyronie’s disease as a side effect of these drugs is rare. Check with your doctor before stopping or changing any prescribed drug.
Although injury to the penis may explain sudden (acute) cases of Peyronie’s disease, cases that develop slowly or disappear quickly with no apparent trauma to the penis remain unexplained.

Peyronie’s disease - Symptoms and causes - Mayo Clinic

Let me offer my two cents on this even though I am not expert but my answer is a cautious YES, if you are not careful! I found this site a couple of weeks ago during my search for help or cures for this disease. Let me offer a little back ground..

I am almost 53 years old and remarried almost 4 years ago. My 2nd wife and I have an absolutely awesome sex life. I am no giant…my current size is BPEL 6.7” and EG of 5.2”. This is down from 7” x 5.5” from about 6 years ago when I first measured so I have lost some precious size due to age and who knows what!

I noticed about two years ago that while my wife and I were having some pretty hard sex in the missionary position (she wanted it harder so I was banging her like there was no tomorrow and was afraid that I was going to puncture the headboard!) I noticed that my pleasure was turning into a strange sensation of feeling like pain at the tip of my penis. Afterwards I asked her if it was too rough or painful for her and she just smiled and firmly stated NO! I had a hard time believing this but just brushed it off, however, after intercourse my penis absolutely ached something terrible….I mean it felt like somebody had just smashed the glans with a sledgehammer. I was too embarrassed to say anything to my wife at the time since within about 10 minutes the pain subsided.

Over the course of the next several months we would continue with occasionally having the hard thumping and again one time I could distinctly tell that I was actually bottoming out in her vagina…I specifically asked her again if she could feel me bottoming out inside of her and she was very matter of fact about it and stated, “hey, if you’re hurting me obviously I will be the first to pipe up and say STOP”!! Given this my only conclusion was that somehow in the missionary position I am hitting her back wall in front of her pelvic/backbone area or something and I really thought that this was odd because I have always felt that I was on the small side due to seeing the Porno sized dudes on the Internet with their monsters.
It wasn’t’t until about the end of last year (actually 2007) that I woke up in the middle of the night having to go pee real bad (normally I NEVER have to get up to go pee) and I woke up with strong night-time wood and much to my shock and surprise I noticed in the light that my penis shaft was pointed about 30° to the left and slightly up about 1” behind the glans!! Of course you can say….how could you NOT notice this before?! Easy answer…I am almost 53 now and have an EQ of about a 5 (compared to 20 years ago when it was still 10) and I usually start intercourse half limp and it becomes fully erect as it slides back and forth entering her tight vagina (we ALWAYS use KY jelly or as I call it since I’m a hardcore car buff…wiener grease!). So I never do really have hard erections any more outside of sex so I never have had the opportunity to observe this before. Even oral sex was usually performed at night under the covers so this went unnoticed. I briefly searched the Internet to better understand this phenomenon but it was really inconclusive when I looked at the time.

I am on a 12 month business trip now and have more time on my hands to explore this issue more and this is when I came across this awesome site. I have read many testimonials about the potential benefits of PE just for my specific case of a curved penis and poor EQ so naturally “I’m in” and obviously the proof is in the pic’s on this Site!!

In conclusion, I firmly believe that caution should be exercised when having sex once your penis length approaches somewhere near 7” in length but don’t have a good number to offer when it should be a “watch item”. Believe it or not the only women I have been sexually active with are my two wives so I don’t have any other experiences to offer about this being a problem. Sex with my first wife was never deep and hard so I don’t have a good data point to offer here either, sorry.

And for anyone that cares, my goals after reading many articles on this site is to try and straightened out my curvature as much as possible (I know it can’t be 100% straight again) and re-gain my 7”x5.5” BPEL & EG and get my EQ back to 10 and then I’ll be happy. After trying the “newbie routine” of 1 on and two off for the past week and a half I am pleased to say that about half of the “curve” is gone!! I’m not in need of a monstercock so just label me “not greedy, just horny”!! Of course, I’ll have this discussion with my wife too when she joins me at the end of the month….who knows maybe she needs a 10x7 but I doubt it……she’s always told me that she couldn’t’t be happier with things today!

Sorry for the long novel based on a simple question but I thought it was important for some real info here based on personal experience!

1040-

Awesome first post! I am really looking forward to reading your updates. I’m sure EQ can be much improved if you take things super cautious and slow.

1040:

There is speculation here from time to time about regaining size lost to age. Let us know how that goes for you.

Good post, newnew.

I never heard of anybody developing Peyronie’ disease due to PE. But on the other hand, PE is not around for a long time. Generally speaking, you can have trauma to your penis doing PE. Everybody should be aware of that.

Thanks, in the link somewhere they talk about some people just going back to normal and they have no explanations.

In my opinion if we keep doing PE we might be preventing it.

Because one of the ways to get rid of it is to massage the penis.

Oh well. I think it’s worth the risk.

As long as we are consistent and having our penis in traction, how can the penis be effected by such a disease?

There is a tremendous difference between “sensible” PE and going for broke. PE is a journey. Many people have improved erectile function and curvature with responsible PE practices. The best protocol is to research PE techniques closely and make informed decisions about what works for YOU and what doesn’t.

The “Experts” say that penis enlargement is a myth and cannot be achieved. Yet, everyday, we prove that it can. PE is not an exact science. It presents dangers if not done responsibly. It also allows for major advancement if done responsibly. I have grown through persistent, careful and educated exercise and so can you.

Knowledge is power and ignorance is bliss. Ultimately, you are responsible for you!