Peyronie’s disease: the penis condition that affects one in 10 men

The life-changing disorder can make sex uncomfortable or impossible, mainly for men in their 40s and older. Embarrassment delays treatment – but attitudes are changing.

 No, I Don't Want To Hear About Your Bent Penis While Dining

TV commercials are vile and profoundly irritating. Perhaps none is more so than the ad for Xiaflex – a drug that can straighten your bent penis. I cannot possibly describe how much I want to throw a brick through the TV when that idiotic bent carrot shows up at dinnertime.

Bent But Not Broken

Cummings alternates his search for relief from Peyronie’s with flashbacks to his childhood, college years, early adulthood, and past relationships.

Xiaflex for Peyronie’s Disease

Study reported in The Journal of Urology reported that XIAFLEX therapy improves the curvature deficits in patients of Peyronie’s disease by 32.5%. In untreated or placebo subjects, a worsening of curvature by 2.5% was observed; suggesting that XIAFLEX is an effective, non-surgical and minimally invasive procedure for the management of this condition.

Peyronie’s Disease: A Review

Peyronie’s disease is an acquired benign condition without known systemic sequelae with presenting symptoms that include the presence of a plaque or induration of the penile shaft, penile curvature or deformity during erection, penile pain, and erectile dysfunction.

Preventing penile fractures and Peyronie's disease

Penile fractures, in which penis tissue ruptures, occur more often than you might think. Other injuries from wear and tear are even more common and can lead to Peyronie's disease, which leaves the pen

That Painful Bend ‘Down There’? It’s More Common Than You Think

Don’t let embarrassment about a common, treatable condition impact your life.

The Devastating Disease Too Many Men Are Hiding

You’ve probably never heard of Peyronie’s Disease. It’s not in most people’s medical or health lexicon. But it’s a condition an estimated 5-7% of the male population suffer from and can have devastating consequences if left untreated.

Can Peyronie’s Disease Be Treated Without Surgery?

Are you one of the men also looking for a Peyronie’s disease treatment? Utilizing pulsed acoustic wave technology as well as the P-shot can help to break up the plaque that causes the disease and causes. Xiaflex and surgery are commonly prescribed, but these options have been shown to be more effective while being much less invasive.

A New Treatment for a Painful Penis Curvature

Dr. Mills emphasized that although there is still no sure cure for Peyronie’s disease, therapy often lessens the problem. “Xiaflex is the best treatment we have, and it got only a B rating from the American Urological Association,” he said.

How an Extreme New Bend in My Penis Changed Everything About My Sex Life

While most experts suspect that physical trauma—either one big blow to the penis, or the gradual wear and tear of sex, masturbation, and daily life—triggers the onset of Peyronie’s, no one’s sure why only some people develop the condition.

Injection therapy for Peyronie’s disease: pearls of wisdom

This commentary summarizes the combined experience of verapamil and Xiaflex injection by the authors. Other practitioners use interferon and other medications. We do not use these and therefore have eliminated this from the discussion.

Injection therapy for Peyronie’s disease: pearls of wisdom

The main difference between Xiaflex and other injectable therapy is Xiaflex’s ability to dissolve the collagenous fibrous tissue within the plaque (4,5). However, Xiaflex also carries the risks of hematoma and penile fracture due to thinning/softening of the tunica albuginea.

Peyronie's Disease Treatments

Treatments include medication, plasma enrichment, penile traction devices, physical therapy, surgery and counseling.

Peyronie’s disease – Watch out for the bend

Peyronie’s disease is an aberrant wound healing process culminating in excess scar formation in the penis, which may cause penile pain, shortening and curvature. It is often accompanied by erectile dysfunction, and can result in progressive and severe impairment of penetrative intercourse.

Recent advances in managing Peyronie’s disease

The aetiology of the disease is thought to be repeated minor microvascular trauma during intercourse, resulting in intra-tunical bleeding and subsequent inflammation and fibrosis. Interestingly, we have seen PD in sexually naïve men who have never had penetrative intercourse.

Treatment for Penis Curvature Sees Results

In both trials, injections of Xiaflex reduced the curvature by significantly more than placebo injections, according to a news release expected to be issued by the company Monday morning. And in both trials the drug also reduced how bothered the men felt about their condition significantly more than the placebo did.