Help pls.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2024 6:39 pm
Hello everyone,
I am new here and I need advice and information considering my current state.
This is my story. Late October last year I had noticed a curvature in my penis followed by some discomfort but nothing major. Few days pass by and after the first sexual activity i notice intense pain unilaterally on the right side. Decided to brush it off for a while because it wasn’t something that I couldn’t bare at the time and everything looked normal. A few months pass and the pain persisted and it started to migrate to my buttocks especially while sitting. Around my 22nd birthday I became really concerned about the condition and decided to visit a radiology specialist. I’ve done an ultrasound of penis which showed calcifications of distal part of the penis. The radiologist had no clue as to why the pain is present. After that I saw a urology specialist who told me that the calcifications are probably there because of microtrauma that resulted from sex and masturbation and that the curvature isn’t so bad that it would be detrimental to my sex life. He didn’t really take the pain into account and when I asked him what should I do he said that I should refrain from sexual activity for about a month and take pain medication whenever I felt pain. A month passed and not only did the pain persist and did not react to medication but it has worsened quite a bit now migrating all the way from my lower spine to the tip of the penis and into the buttocks. The two things that really aggravate the pain are sex/masturbation and prolonged sitting. The pain isn’t as bad as some of other people describe it and I have no difficulty urinating or defecating but it lasts all day and the numbing is unbearably hard to tolerate when it lasts that long.
Now almost a year later from when the pain started in October I kind of lost hope that I will ever be in no pain. I’ve spent countless hours online looking for a possible cause to my condition but the diagnosis of Peryone’s disease or Pudendal neuralgia feel a bit severe to me. The pain is obviously present and doesn’t seem like it’s passing. I have a few doctors in my family and I myself too am a med student but talking to them is quite confusing because some say that it’s probably nothing while others say it might indeed be serious.
My question to you here is what do you think of my condition, could it be PN or is it something less serious and will I ever be able to live life pain-free. I’m only 22 and I already feel robbed of my youth as my university, private social and sex life suffer from this condition. This is truly devastating and I am getting more depressed each passing day. I have another urologist and neurology specialist appointment in about a month and I would appreciate if you suggested what to say to them and what procedures should I be adamant about going through when talking to them because from all that I gathered here online is that doctors rarely take PN into account when diagnosing a patient?
I am new here and I need advice and information considering my current state.
This is my story. Late October last year I had noticed a curvature in my penis followed by some discomfort but nothing major. Few days pass by and after the first sexual activity i notice intense pain unilaterally on the right side. Decided to brush it off for a while because it wasn’t something that I couldn’t bare at the time and everything looked normal. A few months pass and the pain persisted and it started to migrate to my buttocks especially while sitting. Around my 22nd birthday I became really concerned about the condition and decided to visit a radiology specialist. I’ve done an ultrasound of penis which showed calcifications of distal part of the penis. The radiologist had no clue as to why the pain is present. After that I saw a urology specialist who told me that the calcifications are probably there because of microtrauma that resulted from sex and masturbation and that the curvature isn’t so bad that it would be detrimental to my sex life. He didn’t really take the pain into account and when I asked him what should I do he said that I should refrain from sexual activity for about a month and take pain medication whenever I felt pain. A month passed and not only did the pain persist and did not react to medication but it has worsened quite a bit now migrating all the way from my lower spine to the tip of the penis and into the buttocks. The two things that really aggravate the pain are sex/masturbation and prolonged sitting. The pain isn’t as bad as some of other people describe it and I have no difficulty urinating or defecating but it lasts all day and the numbing is unbearably hard to tolerate when it lasts that long.
Now almost a year later from when the pain started in October I kind of lost hope that I will ever be in no pain. I’ve spent countless hours online looking for a possible cause to my condition but the diagnosis of Peryone’s disease or Pudendal neuralgia feel a bit severe to me. The pain is obviously present and doesn’t seem like it’s passing. I have a few doctors in my family and I myself too am a med student but talking to them is quite confusing because some say that it’s probably nothing while others say it might indeed be serious.
My question to you here is what do you think of my condition, could it be PN or is it something less serious and will I ever be able to live life pain-free. I’m only 22 and I already feel robbed of my youth as my university, private social and sex life suffer from this condition. This is truly devastating and I am getting more depressed each passing day. I have another urologist and neurology specialist appointment in about a month and I would appreciate if you suggested what to say to them and what procedures should I be adamant about going through when talking to them because from all that I gathered here online is that doctors rarely take PN into account when diagnosing a patient?