Should I worry as much as I am? Please help...

[McB52]

Well, thanks for the kind words and reassurance jadzen.
I sure hope you're right.
I am trying to take my mind off it... but here I am, just in my lonely apt by myself, and contemplation of the worst case scenario is hard to avoid and feeling pretty heartbreaking...

I think I'm going to make a urologist appointment tomorrow, in any case...

Dduster, your freaking yourself out and causing your body to stress. Stress will kill the best attempt(s) to get an erection. Trust me, I know what stress can do, no BS!!! Going to a doctor will not change anything. He/She will listen to your story, look at it and tell you to rest. Come back in a week or two!! By then your will be back to normal. The only thing your going to do is spend money for nothing.

Relax, relax...if your lady is as special as you say, she will understand if things don't pop-up..lol. Tell her your under a lot of stress lately, again, she'll understand.

We have all been where you are today, it will pass, but you need to give it time!!

Good Luck, be patient and most important RELAX!!

McB

[Dduster]

Well, thanks everyone. I can't say I'm not still very worried.
Interestingly, I woke up with morning wood (if not quite fully hard), and thought that was a great and relieving sign. Since, though, my penis still feels strange, generally hanging very small and compact. No erections coming at all. I am taking some advil for imflammation... should I also perhaps be doing occasional warm compresses? For those of you who have had this sort of thing happen- about how long did it take to heal?

Again, thanks!

[Big Al]

Originally Posted by Dduster

Well, thanks everyone. I can't say I'm not still very worried.
Interestingly, I woke up with morning wood (if not quite fully hard), and thought that was a great and relieving sign. Since, though, my penis still feels strange, generally hanging very small and compact. No erections coming at all. I am taking some advil for imflammation... should I also perhaps be doing occasional warm compresses? For those of you who have had this sort of thing happen- about how long did it take to heal?

Again, thanks!

Warm compresses and light massage will help. Avoid masturbating and PE until you're 100%, and more importantly- avoid overreacting to this situation. It's obvious that you're capable of getting erections, but the enormous stress you're putting yourself through is enough to cause you ED.

[PhibbysHammer]

One thing that almost always gets overlooked for newcomers is what to expect immediately upon starting exersizes. Just as if you started lifting weights today and your muscles were sore that evening, your penis will react from exersize with similiar symptoms. Loss of EQ, minor soreness and especially turtling are all very normal when you first start PE and it should be expected. These symptoms will improve as you become conditioned to working your unit. Remember this is something new that your body has to become accustomed to.

[Nacho]

You guys need to recognize a troll better.

No one could make it through everyday life if they experienced this much anxiety over an issue that even a medical doctor said not to worry about.

If this guy is for real. BIG if ... then clearly at this point it is all in his head at this point, which of course is why I think its a troll.

[JonPop]

Dduster, the post is in your court.

[ron8711]

You should try cutting your reps by 50%(after a few days of rest of course) and see what happens, if there are no negative results, slowly work your way up, raise the percentage in small increments every week or so.

This worked really well for me. Good luck with your recovery!

[Dduster]

Nacho, I don't know what to say- I'm totally not a troll, my friend... but believe what you want, based on what you read.
I'll agree with you that my anxiety is outsized... you can attribute it, first of all, from coming from a long bloodline of worriers, and secondly to being (for now- I have to stay positive), stuck in a place where I have virtually no close friends (most have moved out-of-state over the last few years) or family (all in Jersey and Florida) to support me while, for the past year, I have been dealing with my break-up... the single hardest thing I have had to deal with in my entire life, on every level. All the while, I have continued a hectic pace at my very busy, pressurized, underpaying corporate job. The past eleven months have been a daily grind of worry over my son, worry over my ex's extreme, rollercoasterish instability, and worry over how the hell I'm going to get my finances in order to move out of this shithole town and job I'm stuck in, and do better for my boy. My gf has been, as I said, an amazing, joyous ray of light in all this. So, for this to happen now... it was a problem I definitely DO NOT NEED, and I felt INSANELY bad, because it was so unnecessary- I had done it to myself. I guess I can give a little bit of understanding to your suspicion, with the alarmed cry for help being my first post- well, whatever, that's just the way things turned out. Sorry. I lurked around this place, reading and reading, for a few months before now.

The good news I have at this point is this: I had to talk to someone about this today, someone close who I could trust. I called my girl. I was really scared to do so, for so many reasons, as you might imagine. I gave her the whole story, totally honest about everything. We had a long talk, and she was- I guess it comes as no surprise- remarkable. Like many of you here, she really talked me down (naturally, it had more weight coming through to me in her sweet, warm voice, rather than you from you very well-intentioned (and I thank you for it) but anonymous lot), and told me that I had to stop making it worse by stressing about it in the extreme. She told me to relax, meditate and send healing energy to it... and that she felt everything would be fine.

So... that 's where I'm at it.

Physically- things were feeling much better.... and I actually, outta the blue, got a pretty full erection during a second phone call w/ my gf on the way home from work a little while back. Afterward, though, my tip was achy... and actually, just now during the typing of this, I got a rather sharp pain, twice, on the left side of my flaccid shaft...

[JonPop]

Thanks for the very open post and this side of yourself. You have friends here, you can talk to us whenever you want.

I know what you mean about no close friends. I have had so many move away or die in the last few years.
These forums have become my social life and I have made many, dear friends on line. We only really know each other by our writings, but the written word is powerful and the people who write them have become a very important part of my life. So, relax, enjoy the experience that this site offers. JP

[PhibbysHammer]

Originally Posted by JonPop

Thanks for the very open post and this side of yourself. You have friends here, you can talk to us whenever you want.

I know what you mean about no close friends. I have had so many move away or die in the last few years.
These forums have become my social life and I have made many, dear friends on line. We only really know each other by our writings, but the written word is powerful and the people who write them have become a very important part of my life. So, relax, enjoy the experience that this site offers. JP

I feel I need to echo JP's Words to you Dduster and anyone else who may lack the courage to post yet and reitterate that we are indeed here for each other and ready to offer support and guidance at the first call of need. So what if you in fact might be a troll? Trolls need support and friendship also.