Dr. Levine answers: Any type of injury that occurs to the erect penis could activate Peyronie’s disease in the susceptible individual. This would include masturbation or penetrative sex. This would be most apt to occur if the penis had excessive pressures being placed on it such that
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Dr. Mulhall answers: Many experts believe that there is some genetic and/or immunological facet to Peyronie’s disease. How else could we account for why some men get the condition and others do not? As with much else in Peyronie’s disease, there has been no real study of
Read more →Dr. Mulhall answers: The penises affect by Peyronie’s disease present with variety of deformities. The type of deformity that an individual patient experiences depends on 3 major factors (1) the size of the plaque (2) the location of the plaque and (3) the elasticity of the tunica
Read more →Sitting in the straddle position with pressure on the perineum can cause penile, scrotal, and urethral numbness; there is no evidence at this time that this causes Peyronie’s disease or would exacerbate underlying Peyronie’s disease. It is simply due to a pressure on blood vessels and nerves
Read more →Dr. Levine answers: Any traumatic event to the penis could possibly activate Peyronie’s disease in the susceptible individual. It is not exactly clear to me where your piercing is located on the penis, but usually it is in the area of the urethral opening of the penis
Read more →Dr. Levine answers: The typical injury occurring with biking or any straddle sport is an injury to the vascular or nerve supply to the penis which can result in erectile dysfunction and/or a numb penis. The fact that there is pain may indicate a nerve entrapment. If
Read more →Dr. Levine answers: It appears that the most common cause for triggering Peyronie’s disease is local trauma to the penis, which most commonly occurs during sexual activity when the penis is erect, but a man may develop Peyronie’s disease following a direct trauma to the penis that
Read more →Dr. Mulhall answers: There exists no evidence that urethral catheterization causes Peyronie’s disease. Indeed, as you point out the “injury” would be remote from where the vast majority of the plaques are located. It is likely that the trauma that is implicated in Peyronie’s disease development is
Read more →Dr. Mulhall answers: This is an excellent and frequently asked question. There is no indication that ILV causes more trauma and the evidence for this is that many men have stabilization or improvement of the Peyronie’s disease when they have used ILV. Likewise, there is no evidence
Read more →Dr. Levine answers: Stress can certainly be a contributing factor to many disorders. It is unlikely to activate the Peyronie’s process directly, but stress may result in diminished rigidity which may subject the “at risk” penis to a greater likelihood of injury which would then activate the
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