stretching injury may have destroyed my nerves and my penis feels dead

[Jrohny1 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jrohny1]

Hello everybody,

I’m here because I need your help. Ii specifically registered here because of my problem after reading some posts and doing some research.

it will take all the strength that I can generate and help that I can seek to get through the situation that I find myself and I am prepared for the worst already. I'm at my early 30s and very healthy, I was very potent until this happened all my life. here is what is going on and what happened:

last week I had another jelquing/stretching session in which I injured myself while stretching I believe. when stretched my penis to the left side, it kind of snapped or bended, not sure how exactly to describe. looking back, I think something detached, at least that’s what it feels like now. there was no pain and I did not think any of it. nothing that suggested a sign of a really bad injury happened at the time. what I remember is that maybe my penis was a little cold when I stretched so I may have not prepared (warum-up) well. I stretched hard, but it wasn't uncomfortable and I've been doing this for a couple of weeks already at that point. only once did my penis feel numb once a few weeks earlier, so I stopped for a week until everything was back at normal before I continued.

back to the accident, the next day I already had a weird feeling on my erected penis. masturbation felt weird, there was no pleasure at all and I stopped. One day later it was weirder, but this time I forced myself to an orgasm. it was very uncomfortable, there was at no point any kind of usual pleasure and when i ejaculated it just came out in a weird, powerless and different way. there was no pain but it was uncomfortable, unusual and like my penis didn’t even know that I masturbated. one day later I would be able to have blood go into my penis, but as before and even more so, it wasn't a real erection, since i didn't feel anything. it was just my penis reacting in a way that it was used to, but less and less so. only by lots of stimulation, and like a fake erection already. skip a few days, now I cannot get any erection of any kind, nothing happens, absolutely no sensation at all.
this is bad, and I know that something really bad happened to my penis. tt just hangs and doesn’t function, at all. when i would at least get an erection i would think there is some kind of injury that heals quickly, but I believe i literally detached the fundamental nerves in my penis from my body. there are no signals from my penis, nothing happens. It seems to start to get smaller every day since this happened. i already did some research as I naturally worry and panic, so it seems I must have injured the dorsal nerve or more in the worst way. again, I’m only one week in and next week I will go to doctors and such. there is no pain at all, there is just nothing right now.

please help me if you can. any comments are welcome and appreciated, that can actually give advice or good information about my situation. the best kind of support would be from similar or same experiences. if you know some story, link it to me. any ideas what exactly could have happened or what i could do to test what is going on down there. i know that if there is nerve damage, it may be permanent or take very long to heal. be honest and be brutal if you must. ask me anything. thank you

[JonasP Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JonasP]

No sensation as in you don't feel touch, hot and cold there or you "just" can't get it erect?

First, I think he's been telling you all this time to leave him alone for at least a few weeks. Stop trying to even get it erect.

Second, and this is a big one, you must get that stress and anxiety under control and try to get decent sleep. Stress and anxiety only hurts, it doesn't help. Not only does it messes up your hormones and locks your body in "fight and flight" mode making it harder to get aroused, but in certain type of injuries (hard flaccid / pelvic floor), it affects the recovery by not letting a tight muscle to relax. That's right, the problem might not be even with your penis and might be affected by your mental state. If you're a frequent "butt clencher", I'd check the symptoms listed in the "Hans protocol" on this site or for any of those "bad habits" listed there.

[Jrohny1 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jrohny1]

it's not that i "just" can't get it erect. there is just no respons, in any way. there is no signal between me and my penis which would even allow anything to happen. just a few days before this i wouldn't been able to imagine that this is even possible.. there isn't even the slightest sign of a tingle that would provoke blood fill my penis. nothing gets in, it just doesn't work.

there isn't even any story here that I've found in which this is the case, mostly people tell how hard it is to get an erection. in my case nothing happens.. that's why i'm certain it's nerve damage and it's really bad. i think i can feel a little something on the skin of my penis (cold/hot/touch) but it's dead inside. the signals which i'm used to naturally which i would locate in the base inside the penis are not there any more. i couldn't hurt my penis with erections even if i wanted to.

thanks a lot for your answer by the way. what do yo think might have happened.. at best?

not easy to keep calm with this, i am already trying my best.

[JonasP Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close JonasP]

Nerve problem would mean you wouldn't feel the touch (and even then, iirc, it could be muscle-related).

See Hans protocol and read the "signs" and "bad habbits":
https://www.pegym.com/forums/penile-...-protocol.html

It's a popular injury over here. It doesn't mean that you damaged the nerves or even your penis. Some of those pelvic muscles are responsible for the blood flow into your penis. The muscle could be too tight or injured.

After my injury, I don't know how bad I had it during the first week since I didn't test, but I didn't get aroused or get morning erections. Almost 2 weeks later, it would take an incredible visual and lots of physical stimuli to get a small semi that quickly faded.

An urologist couldn't find anything wrong. He told me to drink half of Viagra and Amitriptyline before sleep for a week. I took a quarter of Viagra (not long lasting Cialis) and half of 25mg of Amitriptyline for one night. I finally got decent sleep and was relaxed after that. Things got better from then on (without pills): I got semi morning woods, could get aroused by visual stimuli (not 100%, and it quickly faded, but still progress).

I still have some soreness, so trying to play with it is probably not a good idea in my case. After finding this website and reading the Hans protocol, I noticed I had many symptoms even before the injury and had bad habits. I was wondering why my butt was often sore, had PE, etc. Now I know why. It's probably all related. So I'm going to try those exercises or find a specialist.

In other words, just because it seems dead right now, doesn't mean that you permanently broke it, it doesn't get better and that the problem is even there.

[Jrohny1 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jrohny1]

i went to two urologists today. they both had no idea. one of them dismissed my concerns as a typical ed-problem and freaking out too much. he was just not able to imagine what actually is the problem exactly how i would have thought just a few weeks ago. it's so much part of you and being (hu)man that its like breathing, so how could one understand. there is just no impuls between my penis and my brain, it doesn't work. if someone has an idea about what else then serious nerve damage this could be, tell me please.
anyways i will have to wait, hope, and see, and go to a neurologist..

i got something like viagra prescribed and took it. but no errection, even though at least a little more blood runs into my penis it seems.

any posts are welcome, i will be posting updates for anyone who is or will be interested how this will turn out for me. it's hard to accept that this shit is happening to me.. i didn't even know you could injure yourself this badly.

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thanks again jonasp,
i read the hans protocol and it doesn't relate to my problem. let me try again to describe the problem. you know that little feeling like the tiny "tickle" within you before you can get an erection, and i imagine most with ed have that but then the penis just won't fill up and stand. my problem is that there is no "tickle" any more. i just have a memory of it and don't understand why it doesn't happen when i see something hot. it's a fundamental connection which seems to be missing. it's like being paralysed, from the very top of the penis to the glans...

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i run around between doctors like a crazy person and noone cares or listens. they tell me there is nothing and it's all in my head. i'm a sceptic myself and i would doubt the sanity of this if i truly couldn't imagine it since i could not have thought this kind of injury is possible. i thought that ed is simply that u can't get it up or can't hold it, which is exactly the case, but it's also possible that you can lose the feel which makes an erection even possible, that's when the neural connection is no more. i found only very few posts of people who describe a similar problem and they are horrifying, as is what im going through. i can assure you those storys are very likely true and you can fuck up your penis and your life.

anyways im trying to stay hopeful and positive. still no feeling. i do feel touch on my skin, even cold or heat but the penis does not react in any matter. also there is no impuls no matter how hot the visual that i see or imagine is to my brain. today i was able to let some blood through so the penis was filled with more blood, kind of how i sometimes wake up. i wouldn't call it an erection but it's better than nothing.

does anyone think it's possible to detach the nerve whithin the penis? otherwise i must have shattered them completely. that's my hope, so there may be a chance for recovery. again, any suggestions, ideas, experiences will be helpful.

[CUSP82 Administrator Admin of the Month Dec 2014PEGym Hero Find all posts View Profile Close CUSP82]

No you didn't detach it or shatter it or anything else. Nerves are quite flexible; kind of like bungi cords. The most you did was really piss them off, especially masturbating after you knew you injured yourself. That was not smart. I would say it was dumb but the administrators get mad at me when I say that stuff.

Nerves are a lot like women. Stay away from them for a while and they'll eventually forgive you. With nerves sometimes it's days or weeks or months but they heal. Just like when a woman gets pissed off stay away from them so stay away from your dick until they heal.

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The whole theory of stretching pulling on the pelvic floor muscles and causing all these symptoms make more sense everyday

[Pegasus AdministratorPE Gym EditorPEGym Hero ☺ Admin of the Month Mar 2015 Find all posts View Profile Close Pegasus]

You seem to want some dire incurable injury to drama over .

As Cusp said it's hard to do any serious injury to nerves . You may have pissed them off as Cusp suggests . More likely you have spasmed muscles in the pelvic floor which now interfer with nerve conduction.

A physio who does male pelvic floor work is treatment of choice.

[Jrohny1 Member Find all posts View Profile Close Jrohny1]

no i do not want to have drama or any of this. there is nothing more that i hope and wish for than you guys being right, me freaking out and everything healing from time to time. if i could get only a small erection, i would be able to cool off and do not touch my penis any more and just wait. but there is no impuls, and this happened immediately, not over time. that's what's most scaring and why i really have reason to be scared, i think. also, i cannot stress enough how weird it is to not have any sexual impuls between my brain and my penis, just gone. it's truly nothing you could imagine.
by the way my pelvic muscle works fine.. doesn't help either.
i do feel some weird feelings which i couldn't really locate or describe.. maybe little tingeling inside my body.. i do hope it's some kind of healing of the nerves or whatever.

[Jay1983 Senior MemberMember of the Month Apr 2014, Sept 2016 Find all posts View Profile Close Jay1983]

I know what you're going through. I was there. My brain sensed my penis as it was a lousy piece of rubber. There was no pleasure, nothing, just rubber. It was the strangest thing ever. Once recovery set in I was able to ejaculate, except there was no orgasm, just ejaculation dribble. It has gotten better, but not fully recovered. It's as if something happened along the way to my central nervous system. There was just no communication between my brain and penis; paralyzed.

You'll get better bro, it's just gonna take time. I have strong faith that you will recover, if you allow yourself to. Stay well and keep standing.

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guys.. guys.... he is alive!!

yesterday i was able to get a little erected with a lot of mental strength and a little stimulation. the best part of it was that my penis received signals from my brain finally to some degree. this assured me a connection which i missed and it gave me hope. i burst out in tears of relieve like never before...
later on i continued to feel little tweaks and pulls in my penis, pretty much exactly what you hope for and what is described as nerve healing. i had more and more senstation during the evening every hour. and today i woke up with a morning wood, about 80-90%... never before was i that happy about a morning erection. i'm getting back my penis, already. i feel like i lucked out.

it seems my injury pissed off my nerves only first degree and the healing kicked in quickly. i guess they were not really injured but traumatized, i don't know. obviously i am very hopeful and confident at this point that i'ts going to heal completley.

i'm still scared and cautious.. i didn't even try to masturbate and there is still some stuff that frightens me.
i will continue to post about my healing process. this experience has an incredible impact on me already.

i'm thinking of not masturbating for about a month or when everything feels completely normal.

can you guys advise me on this or for how long should i leave my little friend alone?

thanks everyone by the way. i'm happy that you guys were right in my case.

[Jay1983 Senior MemberMember of the Month Apr 2014, Sept 2016 Find all posts View Profile Close Jay1983]

Leave that banana alone for as long as you can, but if you can't, be gentle.. and that's an absolute can't.

Stay away from pornography.

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thanks a lot Jay1983 you're very helpful. can you tell me if you had any discomfort when you were able to ejaculate without orgasm? was it just the orgasm or was it the building up to it aswell? how long did your recovery take? and when did orgasm satisfaction feelings kick in again? thanks man.

well, i sure as hell wouldn't wanna hurt him (again).

today i had no morning wood, but attempts - to get erected - work. it's a good strong connection, but he is very weak.

still afraid to masturbate and my penis still feels weird.. i would describe it as numb on the outside but stronger in the inside, pretty much the opposite of what was the case in the first days, with an erection also. i can't be sure if everything is (going to be) okay unless i ejaculate/orgasm once. so on the one hand something tells me to do that in order to help my body strengthen the orgasm mechanism, on the other hand i'm scared to hurt him if i get to it too early. i'm especially horrified of an empty ejaculation which is my memore of the last time (the day after the incident where in my defense i didn't yet know that i screwed up).

not sure what to do here. whenever i manage to get an erection i do feel horny though.

guys?