Drugs Can Cause Peyronie’s Disease
Prescriptions drugs that start Peyronie’s disease
The cause of Peyronie’s disease remains unknown. However, among the more commonly suspected causes are injuries as during intercourse, penile trauma as during a difficult catheterization procedure or surgery, genetic predisposition, or a problem of the immune system.
Because medical Peyronie’s disease treatment is also poorly defined, with no standard drug receiving formal approval, one must wonder about the drugs that are currently being prescribed by medical doctors for their Peyronies patients.
Several prescription medications list I want to do this! What’s This?
Peyronie’s disease among the potential side effects. While no formal research exists that proves these medications cause Peyronie’s disease, presumptive evidence and frequent patient complaints of strong association with these drugs supports these as possible causes.
- 1. Beta Blockers – These are the most common mediations in popular use that list Peyronie’s disease as a potential side effect. Beta blockers is a class of drugs used for various indications, but particularly for the management of cardiac arrhythmias, protection of the heart after a myocardial infarction (heart attack), angina pectoris, atrial fibrillation, cardiac arrhythmia, congestive heart failure, glaucoma, migraine prevention, mitral valve prolapsed, and hypertension (high blood pressure). They tend to diminish the effects of epinephrine (adrenaline) and other stress hormones in the body, thus reducing cardiac demands. If you have ever been treated for any of these conditions, and were treated with a beta blocker, this might explain a current case of Peyronie’s disease. Commonly prescribed beta blockers:
Acebutolol Alrenolol Atenolol
Betaxolol Bucindolol Carteolol
Carvedilol Celiprolol Esmolol
Labetalol Metoprolol Nadolol
Nebivolol Penbutolol Pindolol
Propranolol Sotalol Timolol
- Interferon – This prescription medication is used to treat multiple sclerosis, leukemia, and hepatitis. Its manufacturers list Peyronie’s disease as a possible side effect.
- Dilantin – This is a well established anti-seizure medicine, also reported by its manufacturers as a potential cause of Peyronie’s disease.
- PDE5 drug group (Viagra, Cialis, Levitra) – this is a group of inhibitor drugs that block an enzyme process of the smooth muscle cells lining the blood vessels supplying the corpus cavernosa of the penis. As a result of this influence, these drugs act to increase blood flow in the penis in response to sexual stimulation. The maker of each of these three drugs advises that men with Peyronie’s disease should consult with their doctors due to possible adverse effects on the penis.
The bottom line concerning all these drugs is that every one of them has side-effects and related ways of complicating the problem of someone who is already sick. Drugs should be used with great reserve and discretion, and avoided if at all possible.
Once PD is present and a man learns that there is no known medical treatment available, he should consider using Alternative Medicine for Peyronie’s treatment options. This is an option that the Peyronie’s Disease Institute has researched and developed since 2002, with considerable success.
Guide for Peyronie’s Disease Treatment
How to know if your Peyronie’s treatment is working
For those who do not have the book, “Peyronie’s Disease Handbook,” this post will be an introduction to the idea that to seriously provide Peyronie’s disease treatment it is absolutely critical for you to master of the physical condition of your Peyronie’s plaque. This handbook book presents in detail the necessary steps required to fully understand and accurately report all possible physical qualities and aspects of your Peyronie’s plaque or scar.
To use Alternative Medicine well to treat Peyronie’s disease it is necessary that you can accurately describe the current condition of your problem. It is not good enough that you know you have a scar somewhere down there, or that it is a “nodule” or “lump” or “band”, or that your shaft is “curves upward.” All of these are general and meaningless terms. They do not clearly and accurately say anything about the specifics of your current state. Worse yet, these terms are not objective or real enough to compare the condition of your scar from one time to another.
If you think about your Peyronie’s disease problem in these vague terms you would not know enough about your problem – now or in the future – to determine if your Peyronies is getting better or worse. Saying that your scar is “hard” or “soft” is like saying the weather today is “hot” or “cold.” These terms are very general and subjective, and mean very little. This means if someone said it was “cold on Christmas day,” in middle of summer it would not help him to know exactly how cold it was – he could not “remember” how cold that day was six months later.
Specific Peyronie’s treatment information
If you were looking for a new job and you were told you would be paid “money,” you would not be satisfied with that information. You would want to know how much money per hour, your total per week, how often you would be paid, what other direct and indirect benefits were included, and your vacation schedule. You would want details at the beginning of your employment so you would know later if you were being paid correctly on pay day. You would need details at the beginning to determine later if things were going correctly or not. The same with Peyronie’s treatment.
The other day I had a long discussion with someone who just finished reading my book, “Peyronie’s Disease Handbook.” I asked about his scars. He said the largest one was “3/4 of an inch and rather square-ish with somewhat sharp, not rounded, edges, rather flat, generally firm but with a little ‘give’ like the seat cushion of his car, and rough and bumpy like the backside of a carpet.” The other he said was a scar that was the size, shape, hardness and smoothness of a “grain of un-popped pop corn.”
I was very impressed! Not only did I fully understand the physical nature of those two scars, but I knew he knew for his future reference how to evaluate his scar as his therapy progressed. As he continues to make improvement he will be totally confident to identify all progress and changes he makes – or doesn’t make. He is on top of his problem and he will do a better job and make more progress than the man whose only recollection is that his scar is, “I don’t know, I guess it is just some kind of bump.”
Two months later he would be able to think back to the feeling of a grain of unpopped popcorn and know exactly what his small scar was like. If later by comparison the ¾ inch square of bumpy cardboard felt like a ¼ by ½ inch strand of overcooked pasta with a loose and rough surface like a pair of woolen socks, he would know for sure he was making progress. He would know for sure how to manage his dosage and his selection of therapies based on his confidence in the progress he was making.
You cannot possibly remember what “hard” or “soft” felt like one month earlier. Without vivid, exact and personal references that do not change over time you will not have to guess about your progress or lack of progress. Saying your scar is a “bump” or that it is ‘hard” is almost useless. Each description must be loaded with personal meaning that you can accurately refer to later so you will have no doubt if you are making progress or not.
Peyronie’s Disease Handbook
If you follow these instructions from the handbook you will be more knowledgeable about your problem than a medical doctor about the condition of any one patient’s problem. I guarantee it. With that knowledge you will be able to direct and control your therapy better than ever before.
The goal is to be a master of what is going on with your Peyronie’s disease treatment on a day to day basis, and to use that knowledge in such a way as to guide your diet and your Alternative Medicine therapy to your fullest success possible.
Good luck to you, even though after all, it is not really about luck, it is about hard work and knowledge!
Peyronie’s Sex Problems Can Be Helped
Sexual intercourse and Peyronie’s disease
The heat of a sexual relationship is a chemical (hormonal) reaction, and over time it can fade unless a couple takes measures to prevent that from happening. This is especially true when Peyronie’s sex difficulties must be dealt with.
Compounding the usual situation in which, over time, a couple will often experience their usual sexual heat cooling down to a comfortable glow. This is perhaps a sign of maturity of the relationship, indicating there is more than sex between them that keeps them committed and attracted to each other. Perhaps this is why some couples who deal with Peyronie’s disease sex problems actually improve their relationship, while others do not stay together.
Peyronie’s disease sex enhancing strategies
1. Let her lead you
Be the submissive one. Follow her lead. A University of Michigan study reports that female rats experience a dopamine (a pleasure and euphoria-inducing neurotransmitter chemical) boost only when they control sex. The critical point is that she is actually leading the sexual activity, not just conducting sex the way you like it to be done. If this means you both get your nails done – go for it. She will pay you back.
It seems that women really enjoy sex related to role-playing. It is reported in Men’s Health that 76 percent of women surveyed said would be interested in sexual role-playing in which the woman is in a position of authority and the man is the sexual novice she is instructing. Most popular fantasies: professor/student and nurse/patient.
2. Learn new moves
A new sex position is more than a new way to do the same old thing. ”Anything novel or exciting is likely to drive up the levels of dopamine in her brain,” says anthropologist Helen Fisher, Ph.D., author of Why We Love. Oxford University MRI scans found that learning any new motor skill – learning to ties a new knot, taking piano lessons, or some new sexual activity – stimulates the brain in the same way and the same region as those stimulated during orgasm. Therefore, a new sexual maneuver or activity will boost sexual activity and pleasure.
3. Games are fun for many reasons
Competitive games and situations in which there is a mild and healthy tension and sense of anxiety (as when competing in a game of chess or poker, or Trivial Pursuit)0 increases the dopamine levels outside the bedroom. This could increase sexual pleasure and interest in sexual activity because “Your brain can’t differentiate between the external anxiety caused by a novel situation and the internal anxiety caused by being attracted to someone,” says Victoria Zdrok, Ph.D., a clinical psychologist. “A boost outside of the bedroom can carry over for when it matters most.” This happens because competition promotes the release of the sex drive-boosting hormone, testosterone.
4. Start all over
Approach your sexual activity as thought it was your first date. “If you’ve learned how to pleasure her, it’s too easy to forget about foreplay and all the other things that keep sex fresh,” says Debbie Herbenick, Ph.D., a Men’s Health sex advisor.
To heighten the foreplay experience, do this: First, take a 3-day sex break to heighten sexual tension and anticipation. This will cause dopamine to collect in the brain. Next, spend an evening just necking like two teenagers, and keep your clothes on to increase the sense of anticipation. This will cause an increase of dopamine in the body without a way of release. Third, wait two days and spend another evening only touching each other sensually any where you want – except the genitals.
Then, wait another two days with no physical or sexual contact. The fifth step is to spend another evening using only your lips to stimulate and touch each other sensually any where you want – except the genitals. Without sexual release and continued sexual stimulation over this prolonged time period, your dopamine levels will be sky high. In addition both of your testosterone levels will be higher than usual, leading to explosive sex and heighten sexual sensations when you finally do engage in full wonderful sexual contact.
5. Massage message
Stimulate her body to increase her levels of oxytocin. This is the hormone that battles stress, increases sexual arousal, creates a bonding affect between sexual partners.
Physical contact – such as kissing, cuddling and deep muscles massage – unleash oxytocin in her body. The best time to do this is after sexual activity. The more time and tenderness involved in giving physical contact AFTER sex, the better your bonds will be. It is certainly possible for your relationship to improve in spite of your Peyronie’s disease.
6. Nostalgia has benefits in bed
Discussing the early part of your relationship, from the first date to your honeymoon, is not just an exercise in nostalgia. With the simple act of revisiting old memories when romance and sexual passion were fresh and strong will stimulate the hormone norepinephrine. This is a brain hormone that highlights and intensifies those sexual memories. “You’ll unlock her passion,” says sex therapist Laura Berman, Ph.D., director of the Berman Center in Chicago, “and intensify the new memories you’re making, too.”
When you use these simple and easy methods to stir hormone activity in the body the net affect will be to reduce your Peyronie’s sex problem. Add to that an aggressive and faithfully followed Peyronie’s disease treatment plan and you will find yourself feeling better about a lot of things.
Is It Necessary to Straighten a Curved Penis?
Not every curved penis requires Peyronie’s treatment
Before discussing how to straighten a curved penis, it would be wise to consider if reducing penile curvature in your situation is a necessary and advisable thing to do.
If you know for a fact that you have Peyronie’s disease, it is my opinion that it is always wise to attempt to treat your problem – even if it is currently only minor and does not interfere with intercourse. Many men suggest to me that since their curved penis is not causing any sexual problem they are not going to do anything about getting rid of their Peyronies problem. They say they will only worry about having PD if they cannot engage in intercourse. Otherwise they intend to just leave it alone.
But, it is unwise to delay effort to straighten a recently curved penis for three reasons:
- Many times a small penile curvature suddenly gets bad enough to interfere with intercourse
- The longer Peyronie’s disease persists the more difficult it can be to treat
- A curved penis is unstable during intercourse. The longer your penile curvature continues you take an unnecessary risk every time you engage in sexual intercourse because your penis could suddenly bend and buckle when you least expect it, resulting in additional injury on top of what you currently have.
If you are not sure you have Peyronie’s disease, it might be unnecessary to use any treatment procedure. It is best to seek a medical opinion about your curved penis to determine the exact cause and diagnosis of your situation.
Lifelong penile curvature
When a man has had a curved penis all his life, it is still possible to use a few techniques that are discussed on this website to straighten a curved penis that is not related to Peyronie’s disease. The Peyronie’s treatment that might be successful to reverse a normally curved penis are:
- Gentle Manual Penis Stretching Technique © – done without dangerous or painful penis stretcher devices.
- PMD DMSO, in combination with copper peptides (Super CP Serum) and vitamin E concentrate.
- Neprinol
The idea behind this approach is to soften and reduce as much soft tissue as possible within the contracted scar tissue, while using gentle manual penile stretching to straighten your curved penis; approaching the problem from two different directions at the same time.
Straighten a curved penis due to Peyronie’s disease
Regardless of the duration of Peyronie’s disease or how severe the curved penis, it is possible to make changes in the penile curvature and distortion. There is no way to predict how much correction can be earned; sometimes it is complete reversal of curvature and other times the correction is only minor – but everyone seems to note some degree of improvement. The real factor that seems to determine if a man succeeds or not is the amount of time and effort he devotes to his problem.
Now that you know how to work to straighten a curved penis it is time to get busy. You will never know for sure until you do your best to correct your penile curvature, and now is the best time to do it.
My Penis is Curved
How to straighten a penis
What a shock when you realize, “My penis is curved. How did that happen, and what is going on down there? And the most important question to Google, How to straighten my penis?”
While there are several other causes of a curved penis to suddenly happen, the most common one, and the most difficult one to deal with is Peyronie’s disease. Peyronie’s disease is a condition that occurs in about 6-10% of men over the age of 40 (although it can affect teenagers and men in their early 20s) in which a dense and thick mass of fibrous tissue, called a Peyronie’s plaque or scar, is found within the tunica albuginea layer on the inside of the penis. The presence of a nodule or band of fibrous tissue under the skin of the penis will prevent the normal expansion of the chambers of the penis during an erection. This causes the erection to be distorted resulting in a curve, bend, hinge, hourglass or bottleneck distortion.
To assist you to determine if you have PD, please visit Peyronie’s symptoms and check out some of the Peyronie’s pictures of curved penis. It is necessary for anyone who thinks he might have Peyronie’s disease to go to his doctor to have a complete examination so an accurate diagnosis can be made. Do not make the mistake to think you can self-diagnose this problem.
It is important to remember that the problem of Peyronie’s disease is not that you have a curved penis. The problem is actually the Peyronie’s scar that is present within the deep tissue of the tunica albuginea causing incomplete filling of the penile chambers, resulting in the curved penis that got your attention. For this reason any treatment that is directed solely at trying to make the penis straight without removing or eliminating the PD plaque will not be successful.
While the Peyronie’s Disease Institute does not take a position against Peyronie’s surgery, we feel too many men resort to penis surgery far too soon before trying conservative treatment. If a man knows he has Peyronie’s disease he should also know the problem is that his body produced excessive scar tissue or plaque in response to a small injury or inflammation of the deep penile tissue layer. What does he assume will happen to that same tissue when a surgeon cuts that same tissue and also tugs on it, stretches it, and put stitches into it during the course of Peyronie’s surgery? There is a very good chance that more excessive scar tissue will result. This is why many urologists and surgeons take a position against all Peyronie’s surgery.
Since 2002 the Peyronie’s Disease Institute has educated men about the use of Alternative Medicine to assist the body to heal the Peyronie’s plaque. Fifty percent of men naturally recover from Peyronie’s disease without any help or outside intervention; the problem just goes away on its own like any other health problem should. Our approach is to assist each man to enable his body to heal naturally like those in that lucky 50% group.
So if you are one of us who has said in shock, “My penis is curved,” you now know what to do about it. Learn more about Peyronie’s disease treatment with Alternative Medicine. Another good source of information is the Peyronie’s Disease Handbook.
Viagra, Cialis and Levitra Use with Peyronie’s Disease
Peyronie’s treatment using erection producing drugs
The erectile dysfunction and soft erections associated with Peyronie’s disease are sometimes treated with Viagra, an erection causing drug made by the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company. The information about Viagra duplicated in this blog post is written by Pfizer about Viagra, in relation to Peyronie’s disease. The basic information presented by Pfizer is essentially true for other erection producing drugs, like Cialis and Levitra.
Here is the Viagra drug information from Pfizer, found their website. I have removed a considerable amount of technical Viagra information that does not apply to Peyronie’s disease to make it easier to find what you need to know. Notice the section below that I have put in bold and underlined.
PRECAUTIONS
General
The evaluation of erectile dysfunction should include a determination of potential underlying causes and the identification of appropriate treatment following a complete medical assessment.
Before prescribing VIAGRA, it is important to note the following:
The safety of VIAGRA is unknown in patients with bleeding disorders and patients with active peptic ulceration.
VIAGRA should be used with caution in patients with anatomical deformation of the penis (such as angulation, cavernosal fibrosis or Peyronie’s disease), or in patients who have conditions which may predispose them to priapism (such as sickle cell anemia, multiple myeloma, or leukemia).
The safety and efficacy of combinations of VIAGRA with other treatments for erectile
dysfunction have not been studied. Therefore, the use of such combinations is not recommended.
In humans, VIAGRA has no effect on bleeding time when taken alone or with aspirin. In vitro studies with human platelets indicate that sildenafil potentiates the antiaggregatory effect of sodium nitroprusside (a nitric oxide donor). The combination of heparin and VIAGRA had an additive effect on bleeding time in the anesthetized rabbit, but this interaction has not been studied in humans.
Use of any drug to assist erections in Peyronie’s disease
It is my opinion that any man who is undergoing Peyronie’s disease treatment is taking a huge risk to use any of these erection producing drugs because it has been my observation and experience in talking to hundreds of men about their Peyronies problem, that these drugs can injure the penis and actually start Peyronie’s disease, make it worse, or possibly delay or interfere with your effort to try to heal your Peyronie’s plaque. This happens because of the damage done by the surprisingly strong and uncontrollable erections these drugs can create.
With the use of these drugs it is possible that the forced erections they cause can place great internal stress within the penis that can injure the delicate tunica albuginea. The erections created by these drugs can be indeed super-erections, greater than what a man normally experiences.
I have had a number of men tell me they are convinced their Peyronie’s disease started after using Viagra, Cialis, etc. I am confident that at a later time we will start to hear reports about more side-effects of these medications. This should not be so difficult to believe when you can read for yourself that the drug manufacturer is already warning men in particular with Peyronie’s disease to be cautious about its use.
Peyronie’s disease aggravated easily
Super-charging an erection is not the way the body was designed to be used.
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 to the muscles, ligaments, joints, bones and blood vessels. A trick like that would cause great damage to internal organs, your spine, blood vessels, all major joints, etc. Simply put, “It just ain’t natural.” Same with these erection drugs like Levitra and Viagra. The increased pressure created by these medications can be very damaging to the delicate tunica albuginea, and can result in or worsen a case of PD.
What would happen to your car tires if you happened to over-inflate them with 100 pounds of air pressure, even though they were built to take just 40 pounds of pressure? You would be running the risk of damage to the internal structure of tire, wouldn’t you? Of course. The same thing can happen if the penis is over-inflated and then given a “rough ride.” This is where the problems start, and this is what I want to bring to your attention.
Viagra, Cialis and Levitra are not a Peyronie’s treatment
It is very likely that the MDs who prescribe these medications to men with Peyronie’s disease will not agree with this thinking. MDs tend to favor a chemical “fix” to most problems, so you would tend to expect a natural and automatic prejudice from an MD to use drugs to solve most problems.
If you have taken Cialis or any other erection producing drug because it was prescribed for you, and you mention this information to your MD, what do you suppose he or she will say? Well, the first thing you must consider is that this information indicates that your doctor prescribed something for you that was not safe or appropriate. The natural reaction would be for your doctor to immediately defend her decision. That makes sense. It is not my intention to make trouble for your doctor, she was only doing what she thought was best for you. It is my intention for you to independently think about these things and see if they make sense to you, the owner of the penis that could become injured. Do more research on your own, then talk to your doctor. This way you are armed with both sides of the story.
It is my further intention to prevent you from injuring yourself further with these erection producing drugs.
A penis that is predisposed to Peyronies in the first place cannot tolerate the kind of stress that these erections drugs create. It is just like someone with asthma cannot tolerate dust, odors or smoke that does not bother other people. If you already have Peyronies you should do everything you can to avoid any kind of stress to this tissue, including avoidance of erection producing drugs.
I talk to a lot of men who are given a prescription for Viagra, etc. to help their sexual difficulty, and they instinctively know that this treatment does not make sense to them. Yet, they are tempted to use the drug because of the promise of improved sexual performance; besides, they are also tempted because they feel, “Heck, my doctor would not do anything to hurt me, maybe it is OK to do.” I would agree, your doctor would not want to hurt you intentionally. Yet, we all know that tens of thousands of people are hurt each year by drugs that are given with good intentions and bad consequences.
In addition, I have talked to many men who have reported to me that they used these erections drugs many times, maybe for several months, with absolutely no problem. The erections were “normal” and controllable, and everything was fine, and the sex was great. Then, one night, one time, they took that same drug in the same way, and they got an erection that was unbelievably hard and huge, and they thought they were going to explode. It scared the devil out of both partners. A few days or weeks later – a curved penis and Peyronie’s disease developed.
If you attempt to think independently and logically about what might happen to your Peyronie’s disease when these drugs are used, you should have no trouble understanding how this could work against you. If your doctor can convince you that they are perfectly safe, then you should do what your doctor says to do. Just remember, who that penis is attached to if a tragedy happens. Your doctor will shrug his shoulders; you will have a worse case of PD.
My opinion is that the use of Viagra and similar erection drugs could easily be worsening the very problem you are attempting to heal. The use of these drugs represents a calculated risk that you are taking, and you should be aware of it.
Please write a comment or question about this article if you want to know more about Peyronie’s disease treatment with Viagra, Levitra or Cialis.
How to Increase Peyronie’s Natural Recovery
Peyronie’s natural treatment is not like using drugs
“What is the very best way to treat my Peyronie’s disease?” That is the million-dollar question, my friend.
When I developed Peyronie’s disease in 2002, my basic strategy for recovery was this: 50% of men get over their Peyronie’s disease without any outside help – in effect they experience a Peyronie’s disease natural cure. If this is true – and it is – then it seems most logical to do everything possible to increase my ability to heal my problem like the men in that lucky 50% group.
Even from the start I felt like my Peyronie’s disease it was a problem I could beat since the odds for recovery are good at 50/50. All I had to do was consistently support and promote my natural ability to heal in this particular area of the body over a period of time, knowing that this would increase the capability of my body to heal itself. I believed then – and know now – that Peyronie’s natural treatment is often just a matter of time and persistence.
I studied the problem of Peyronie’s disease diligently, I worked even harder, I was always faithful to my plan, and I used myself as a guinea pig for every idea that seemed to have merit. In less than six months I was free of all traces of the PD scar, all penile distortion was gone, and all lost dimensions returned. I succeeded.
How to increase Peyronie’s disease natural healing
Everyone comes to the PDI website expecting to see a clear and direct answer, a logical 1-2-3 set of instructions that explains how I beat my Peyronie’s disease, and how you can do it also. But, that is not the way it works. There are no magic 1-2-3 steps to success. Each case of PD is as different as the man who has the problem. Therefore, every man must work out his own Peyronie’s treatment plan – using all the information and ideas I can supply to you. The lack of specific treatment rules is what frustrates men with PD – as if they do not have enough to be frustrated about already! But that is just the way it is.
The entire PDI website (if you printed it out, you would have over 400 pages of information), is devoted to Peyronie’s natural treatment. Even so, all I can give to you is an outline and the basic ideas of how to increase your ability to heal and repair the Peyronie’s plaque. The “Peyronie’s Disease Handbook” is essential in your recovery from PD; it explains in great detail how to monitor and define the size, shape, density and surface quality of your scar(s) – the most important skill you can develop to speed your recovery. While I freely offer you whatever guidance and ideas you might need, and answer all your questions based on considerable experience with Peyronie’s disease natural treatment, you are still in charge of the way you treat yourself. This is the way it must be because you must monitor the size, shape, density and surface qualities of your scar(s) to directly judge how your body is responding to your treatment plan.
I present the basic ideas of Peyronie’s treatment, but you must jump in and do your best to determine which of these ideas works best for you. This is not an exact science, and these are not drugs used for treatment with exact dosages.
For most men it often comes down to deciding how much time and energy you have available to treat your PD each day, and how much money you can afford to spend each month; this is realistic. You might want to do much more for yourself, but can only afford a little. Do your best – whatever that is. Men who get the best results are those who do the most to increase their ability to heal. Do as much as you can to get this problem behind you. Many do very well with the Medium Plan, or some variation of it. Maybe that will be a good way to start your recovery from PD.
I get reports of success and progress weekly from men who use this approach for Peyronie’s natural treatment. You will only know if it can help you if you give yourself a chance. I will help you in any way I can to be successful.
What is Peyronie’s Disease?
Not all definitions of Peyronie’s disease are honest or correct
Great question, “What is Peyronie’s Disease?” However, an accurate and honest answer is not always easy to find. If you are one of the hundreds of new people each day who surf the Internet for an answer to this question, you need to pay attention to the kind of answer you might run across.
In my experience it is common to receive an incorrect answer when it is provided by someone who only wants to sell you something, like a magic herb or a manual penis stretcher. When a salesperson is the source of your information the answer will often minimize Peyronies by oversimplifying the real problem to the point the answer is not truthful.
The reason that someone will intentionally give you this false information is easy to understand. If Peyronie’s disease can be made to sound like a simple problem, then a simple solution can be more easily presented to you in a believable way – and the more likely you will buy a product if the problem and solution sound uncomplicated and straightforward.
The usual short (and false) answer you will see to this question is, “Peyronie’s disease is a curved penis.” This is almost like saying that Peyronie’s disease is no more complicated than a bent paperclip. All you have to do is straighten out the paperclip – and we all know how easy that is to do – and you are as good as new.
What you must understand is that the bent penis of Peyronie’s disease is just a symptom of what is wrong. The penile curvature is not the problem, it is just a sign of the real problem. What is causing the penis to curve is the actual problem that must be addressed.
If you have pneumonia, you will probably have a nasty cough. But, it is not correct – or helpful – to say, “Pneumonia is a cough.” If the problem was presented to you like that, and you believed it, then someone could sell you a cough suppressant as a cure for pneumonia. You would believe that stopping the cough is all you have to do. The truth is that the cough is just an outward sign of a deeper problem. To address your pneumonia correctly you must do what is necessary to help your body reduce and remove the lung infection, the inflammatory response that occurs because of an invasion of foreign bacteria, and the cough – and the pneumonia – will no longer be an issue. The cough is just a sign of the pneumonia, it is not pneumonia – just as a curved penis is a sign of Peyronie’s disease, but it is not the problem. The bent penis is just an outward sign of a Peyronie’s plaque or scar tissue within the tunica albuginea interfering with the normal filling of the corpora cavernosa, resulting in a bent or distorted erection. No mechanical penis stretcher or mystery herb from Afghanistan will eliminate the PD plaque.
So, what is Peyronie’s disease?
Peyronie’s disease is a problem with no known cause and no known medical cure in which the presence of a dense fibrous nodule or band in the tunica albuginea layer of the penis causes a variable degrees of pain, penile distortion during erection, reduced sexual function, and loss of physical size in length and girth.
If the explanation, “Peyronie’s disease is a bend in the penis” makes you think it is just like a wrinkle in your shirt that can be ironed out – then you are ready to accept the notion that pulling on the bent penis can magically remove that kink. If it were only that simple and worked that well.
You will notice that none of the advertisements for the magical herbs or mechanical penis stretchers explain how they work. The reason there is no explanation is because they do not affect the Peyronie’s plaque, which is at the heart of Peyronie’s disease.
For additional discussion to the question, “What is Peyronie’s disease?” please go to Peyronie’s disease discussion.
Penis Surgery to Treat Peyronie’s Plaque
Peyronie’s surgery from correction to amputation
It is not uncommon for a man to learn that he has Peyronie’s disease and to have his doctor immediately recommend penis surgery to attempt to remove the Peyronie’s plaque or straightened his curved penis.
When faced with even a mild degree of penis curvature someone might think that penile surgery is the only treatment option. It seems to me from my perspective in talking to a dozen men each week about their history with Peyronie’s disease that many of them are given strong pressure to have surgery far too early in the process.
It seems they are not being told that many who undergo penis surgery end up with numerous side effects like pain, numbness or loss of all sensation of the penis, additional loss of length and girth greater than their PD gave to them, greater curvature than their PD gave to them, and total impotence. I frequently communicate with men who have more pain, distortion and loss of sexual ability after penile surgery than before it.
In a desperate effort to satisfy their sexual partner, and under false expectation of how easy and safe the surgery will be, men sometimes make matters worse with Peyronie’s disease surgery. Worse yet, it often happens that a man will have a second Peyronie’s surgery to correct the errors and problems created by the first Peyronie’s surgery – only to have even greater problems after the second surgical attempt.
Peyronie’s surgery to the extreme
The worse case of failed Peyronie’s disease surgery I ever spoke to occurred sometime in 2006. I received a phone call from a man who asked if I guaranteed the treatment we present in the PDI website. I told him that no medical procedure or therapy is ever guaranteed – even aspirin. I said there is no such thing as a medical guarantee provided anywhere in the world because of the complexity of human physiology. I asked him why he was interested in a guarantee. He said he was desperate for something to help his terribly curved penis that had gotten progressively worse after each of three separate penis surgeries. He said he was scheduled to have his fourth penis surgery in two weeks, but he would cancel that surgery if I could give him a guarantee that the PDI process would correct his problem. I told him I was sorry that I could not make such a guarantee, and said I doubted his surgeon was going to guarantee the next operation. He corrected me. He told me that the next surgery was going to “fix’ his problem because the next operation was for the surgeon to amputate – completely cut off – his penis!
He went on to explain that his penis was now just a tiny two inch mass of twisted scar tissue; he had no feeling in his penis; for the last two years when he urinated he would get his abdomen wet; his wife was long gone and he felt that suicide was his only other option, so having his penis cut off made sense to him.
I was shocked. Just as I was starting to explain that I could not guarantee his results at this late stage in his problem I heard a click, and the phone was silent. The entire conversation took less than five minutes, but it was the most powerful discussion I have ever had with any of my Peyronie’s men. I will never forget the empty and desperate tone of his voice.
Penis surgery for a man who already has Peyronie’s disease presents a greater risk than for someone who does not have a Peyronies problem:
- High degree contracture due to fibrous tissue buildup, resulting in greater curvature than prior to surgery.
- Greater chance for numbness or total loss of sensation, or Peyronie’s pain,
- Greater chance for impotence.
Start with conservative Peyronie’s treatment, then penis surgery if it fails
I am not saying that a bad outcome will happen to all men who have Peyronie’s surgery, but it can and does happen so the possibility should be clearly kept in mind before rushing into surgery. Every day I hear from men who tell me their doctor on the first visit suggested penis surgery to “correct” their Peyronie’s disease.
It is my opinion that it is safer and wiser to take a more conservative route of care using the Alternative Medicine form of natural Peyronie’s treatment options that have been presented here since 2002, before considering surgery.
Peyronie’s and Verapamil
Verapamil and Peyronie’s disease treatment
Verapamil is used in Peyronie’s disease treatment by injection directly into the Peyronie’s plaque or a topical Verapamil cream is applied to the skin over the Peyronie’s plaque. For more information about this method, see Peyronie’s disease treatment via direct drug injection.
Verapamil is a calcium channel blocker of the phenylalkylamine L-type. It works by relaxing the muscles of the heart and blood vessels. Verapamil is an anti-arrhythmic drug approved by the FDA in 1981 to treat hypertension, angina, cardiac arrhythmia, and recently, cluster headaches. No oral or transdermal Verapamil is approved for Peyronie’s disease treatment. Most used for Peyronie’s treatment is in the form of a topical Verapamil cream that is applied twice daily for many months.
There are many different companies that compete against each other with their own unique patented Verapamil formula, creating difficulty to know what to believe about the use of Verapamil for Peyronie’s disease treatment.
With so much competition among companies and unsafe practices of illegal companies, some even resort to making inferior and dangerous topical Verapamil cream products. As a result, Peyronie’s patients who use counterfeit Verapamil have reported:
- Changes in blood pressure, causing dizziness, fainting, heart beat irregularities, often requiring changes in other medications to become stabilized
- Severe skin irritation
- Skin burns and blistering
Peyronie’s Verapamil connection
As with many popular medications, the exact way Verapamil is supposed to benefit Peyronie’s disease is not entirely known. Keep this in mind when someone says they do not know how vitamin E or acetyl-L-carnitine or PABA helps Peyronie’s disease.
It is proposed that long term use of Verapamil blocks calcium from entering into the Peyronie’s plaque or scar. Another theory s that Verapamil increases fibroblast activity to make more collagenase that breaks down the Peyronie’s plaque or scar. However, calcium is an essential mineral that must have free access and movement in all tissues and hundreds of different normal and healthy chemical, enzyme and hormone functions of the body. The body needs calcium to function normally and healthfully, and it does not do well when it is blocked by a drug like Verapamil.
Peyronie’s disease and Verapamil side effects
When taken topically or orally for Peyronie’s, Verapamil can cause side effects that may impair thinking or abnormal organ function because of calcium metabolism interference. Care should be used when driving a car, operating dangerous equipment, or any skill in which mental alertness or memory is needed.
Verapamil and Peyronie’s disease warning
Men treating Peyronie’s disease with Verapamil must deal with extreme fatigue, loss of energy, blood pressure problems and skin reactions that often occur. Also, if Verapamil is stopped suddenly any side effect or problem for which it is being taken (like Peyronies) may become worse.
You should not use Verapamil if you are allergic to it, or if you have:
- Serious heart conditions, especially “sick sinus syndrome” or “AV block” (unless you have a pacemaker)
- Low blood pressure
- Recent heart attack
Personal experience with Verapamil and Peyronie’s disease
After attempting to treat my own Peyronie’s disease with topical Verapamil cream for eight months, my overall health suffered from weakness, fatigue, memory failure and low blood pressure caused by the Verapamil in my blood stream. However, worst of all, while using Verapamil my Peyronie’s disease worsened. The size of each Peyronie’s plaque increased and my Peyronie’s curve doubled.
Shortly after using Alternative Medicine to eliminate my Peyronie’s problem, I started the Peyronie’s Disease Institute with my MD colleagues I was working with at the time. With this organization I communicate with dozens of men daily about their problems with PD. Considering the information outlined above, it seems fewer and fewer medical doctors use Verapamil for Peyronie’s disease management.