Causes of Peyronie's Disease

Peyronie's disease causes suffering in at least 1 or 2 out of every 100 men. This condition is not life threatening, but it can surely affect your sex life to a great deal— you might not able to enjoy your game of love for many months. And your sex life may never be quite the same again.

If a man has peyronie's disease, then he will definitely get to know about it because one morning he will wake up and his erection will be curved or bended. It can happen that suddenly. The penis may also be hard at the base but soft up top, or skinny in the middle as if there were an invisible band clamp cinched around it. Or just agonizing, but most often it takes a sharp bend, even a right-angle sharp.

This condition occurs because something has gone seriously wrong beneath the surface of the penis. Inside the penis, there are two cylinders called the corpora cavernosa. During an erection, these chambers fill up with blood during an erection. But they don't enlarge everlastingly of course: they are encased in a jacket or sheath, the tunica albuginea, which gives erection rigidity when inflated. The tunica is like the leather on a football-it defines and limits the shape. The penis can hold some bending—there's a built-in safety factor of about 10 to13 times the normal erect-state pressure.

In peyronie's disease, that's exactly what happens. The sheath break apart and your body, in the course of repairing it, lays on so much scar tissue that, well, things take a turn for the worse. The problem with peyronie's is not the fractured tunica. Sorry to say but it fact that many guys bust their buddies in the course of wild sex or walking in the dark; in most cases, however, it scars and heals relatively quickly. But in case of men, peyronie's the scarring process does not function properly. Too much scar tissue is developed and it does not repair the sheath to its former glory. It just sits there, a knotty lump beneath the surface that's easily detected by both touch and ultrasound.

But also remember, there's no such thing exist as a perfectly straight penis, thus don’t rush to your urologist because of that lifelong swoop to the left. But consult with your urologist immediately if you are experiencing a sudden shift in direction, painful erections or pain during intercourse.

Today, treatment options available for patients with Peyronie's disease are limited. The motive of treatment is to lessen pain and maintain sexual function. Among different option, surgery is the only effective treatment, and because Peyronie's may resolve on its own, physicians often advise waiting 1 or 2 years before choosing this option. But this treatment option is recommended in severe, persistent cases of Peyronie's that have not responded to nonsurgical treatment.