Just got diagnosed with Peyronie's Disease

Hi all Fapstronauts,
I just dropped by to share some news with you guys. I've just got diagnosed with Peyronie's disease, which affect the penis of men from 45-55 in non-reversible ways.

Namely, small accumulations of collagen cause by the separation of penile tissues end up making the penis "turn" where those accumulations are, and can end pretty fucking badly. I'm too young to have it from natural penile tissues disjunction, so it has to be traumatic (it appeared over the course of 3 days with my last partner). Can be removed with a hazardous chirurgy act that leaves 15% of patients without sensations in the penis, and more than half come back later because it didn't actually stop, it's back. For now it still hurts when in erection, hence my visit to the specialist, and apparently this is supposed to go away in less than a year (fucking what?).

So I guess it's for life. We're talking "angled dicks" here, where the angle is so pronounced that there's no possible penetration... I guess I have to learn to slowly do without sex then, again.

Funny how you gather all your willpower to successfully tackle an issue that cripples your sex life for decades on one hand, and at the same time something takes a big handful of shit and shoves it down your throat for your trouble.

I feel quite depressed from this news tbh, hence my sharing here to try and conjurate the extremely negative thoughts that arise, filled with despair and inadequacy and loneliness, those same that have been underlying my former addiction to P for 20+ years. And I fear that they could catch me and drag me down some dark hole and relapse.
Starting now I need to be super aware of those creeping thoughts, I feel badly destabilized.

I vow to make the most out of this situation, and be happy with what I have.

Let's go, let's do this.

Thanks for reading, and if you have any experience with it, I'd be more than happy to read it and discuss with you.

All the best.

 

Thanks bro I really appreciate your support, and the ressource you linked looks very promising.

I haven’t done much research yet, aside from the « factual » info. Need to integrate this new variable in my life I guess.

 

Good point, there's this part of me that really wants to believe in the 5-15% spontaneous recovery chance I guess. Surgeon doesn't want to make a move until a few months of stabilization have passed anyway... Let's set for that and hope for the best.

Thanks for your message !

 

Woah this is good news, thanks bro. I was actually starting to feel more and more pain and angle these last couple of weeks. I'm in Europe and apparently some treatments are still being considered suspicious by urologists. They're telling me to wait until it's too inconvenient. I don't how much is too much tho haha