Significant sensitivity loss due to Jelqing. Any thoughts/suggestions?
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I'll start by saying my goal in posting this is to find any and all ideas on how I might go about regaining sensitivity. I'm all ears to any thoughts, thank you. Hello all, I'm a 21 year old. Gender: male as you may have assumed. About a year ago I tried jelqing, a natural "penis enlargement" technique where you try to push blood flow into your penis and trap it there supposedly making it larger over time. In reality, I think it creates scar tissue which in a way does make your penis slightly bigger over time but of course is very damaging. I jelqed for about 6 weeks total. After the last session, I had an ache in my shaft for some days. I quit cold turkey after that. I noticed a pretty significant loss of sensitivity but ignorantly figured it would just heal itself and regularly masturbated the next couple months. I noticed it took much longer than usual to ejaculate and harder to hold onto an erection. I had lost a significant amount of sensitivity and was having to heavily rub my foreskin to make anything happen. I started getting to a point where I had to wait a week between masturbation to successfully make myself climax. I know it was idiotic to continue this but at the time, I stupidly stayed optimistic and figured things would magically heal themselves. As a guy that always had a sub-average sized penis, I constantly got erections whether it was because I had to pee, my penis rubbed slightly the wrong way on my shorts, something pushed against it, etc would cause me a never ending erection to the point where I usually had some daily discomfort in my shaft from constant stimulation. I decided to believe that maybe this new lack of erections was a step in the more normal direction. After some months, I noticed even more sensitivity loss and quit masturbating completely. Its been about 4 months since I last masturbated and I've lowered drinking to almost nothing. I've gained a very small amount of sensitivity back only in my foreskin so I'm starting to wonder if it'll ever come back.. I do have a history of very very low testosterone but recently got that fixed with some meds (Clomid) and was at 800 2 months ago. No longer on the pill so I should probably get it checked again as I assume higher T can only benefit this particular healing process.
I've seen 4 different doctors (2 being urologists) and no answers.
Symptoms: White spots on foreskin, less noticeable when erect b/c blood flow. A lot of spider veins. Entire shaft has almost no sexual sensitivity in it; the feeling of rubbing it can be compared to rubbing your finger; I feel it but no pleasing feelings/sensation. I sometimes get dull pain at the base of my penis, between the base and my pelvic floor only on the left side when I use the muscle for pushing out pee/poop (not often anymore, seems to be going away). When I masturbated often after the injury I noticed pain in this spot except much sharper when I achieved hard erections and would pull my penis to my stomach to relieve it. The belly of my shaft, only on the half closer to the glands is my most sensitive area since the injury and seemed to be the least effected spot. I do still achieve erections while sleeping so I don't think it's a vascular issue.
If you made it this far, thank you for reading. If there's anyone that has experienced something similar, any advice is greatly appreciated. If you're going through what I'm going through, lets talk! I'll tell you things I've tried and vice versa. If anyone has any knowledge or idea of how I might regain some sensitivity, please share your thoughts. Thank you. If anyone knows of any newly developed technologies that I don't with stem cells, etc. please share so I can raise different possible options with a highly recommended Uro I'm seeing in a month (probably my last doc attempt).
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ml66uk Darwayne
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If you've already seen two urologists and two other doctors, I'm not sure anyone here will be able to help, especially if there's an issue with low testosterone too. Don't give up though. Even if the next urologist you see can't help, there's probably some kind of treatment out there that will, or the problem may just slowly fix itself. There are also new treatments coming along all the time. It's less than 20 years ago, that Viagra was first approved.
Some questions:
Why did you stop taking the Clomid? Was it supposed to reboot your testosterone production, or was it intended for long-term use?
Was it an intentional decision to stop masturbating, or is it painful, or are you currently unable to, or don't have the inclination?
If you have erections while asleep, could it be psychological?
What do the white spots look like?
I wish there was a way to post warnings on all the sites the promote jelqing, as it doesn't seem to work, and you're not the only person it's caused problems for.
Darwayne ml66uk
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I appreciate the thorough reply. I'm not overly confident this Uro I'm seeing will have much to say about finding a fix but he's a very popular one in the area and has been around awhile so if not, I think he'll have an idea of which guy in the area would be the best.
I quit the clomid because unfortunately, althought it boosted my T to 800, it made me feel pretty s****y and ended up leading to permanent eye floaters. The warnings say if you have any side effects with eyes, quit immediately as I did but I wasn't expecting damage like that (considering it's such a popular and known medicine).
The decision to quit masturbating was fully an intentional choice in hopes to let things heal without disruption. Last time I did masturbate about 6 months ago, I got some pretty sharp pain in base of my penis where it connects to body on left side. I rarely get a dull pain there now maybe during bowel movements or pushing out pee. I'm going to start stretching my pelvic floor as this could be a symptom of that and a tight pelvic floor can compress the pudendal nerve.
I can achieve an erection right now if I wanted to but rubbing my foreskin and belly of penis. Although the contact is far less satisfying as it used to be (I'd compare it to how it used to feel before the injury rubbing the base of the penis, probably the least satisfying area but still some arousing feeling there) , it can definitely give me an erection. The rest of my penis can feel touching and rubbing, it just doesn't feel good. If I watch porn right now, I will feel increased blood flow down there. The problem solely lies in the satisfying sensitivity from contact aspect. Also, my nocturnal erections I really only notice if I wake up in the middle of the night. I rarely get morning wood anymore. I used to get morning wood to the point where it wouldn't go down for like 10 minutes.
The white spots are little 2-3 millimeter wide spots in a few different areas only on the foreskin that look the same as if you put pressure on your finger nail and it changes from red to white. They're actually far less visible than they once were perhaps because of the masturbation prohibition lol. Thinking things were able to slow down in there and heal up a little.
I agree with you. I can't imagine with how many people surf the web and how common it's always been for guys to look for methods to get bigger, this won't become a more common problem.
ml66uk Darwayne
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I've written a reply, but it's "waiting to be moderated".
Pepasan Darwayne
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Hi Darwayne,
I don't have personal experience of your issue, but I did once research Jelqing, as it was a potential issue for a client I once had (I'm a retired psychotherapist).
I didn't pick up from that research that loss of sensitivity was a danger, but I'm interested in your experience.
Without wanting to get 'all psychological' on you, I wonder whether you have as much loss of sensitivity as you seem to think? The zones of relative penile sensitivity you describe sound fairly normal to me.
I'm also wondering whether you really needed to be concerned about penis size in the first place.
It's obviously up to you, but I would recommend seeking some psychological help so you can be helped to become more at ease with your body as it is made, and accept and love yourself unconditionally.
Darwayne Pepasan
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I'd like to think it's psychological but I had 6-7 years of sensitivity as it's supposed to be and it's infinitely different now. When I finally decided I had an issue from jelqing, it was after a couple months of me thinking nothing was wrong when there was a clear lack of sensitivity, I just thought things would heal on their own. That alone tells me its not psychological as the lack of sensitivity portrayed itself even when I felt I didn't have an issue.
I went more into detail on some of my symptoms with ML66UK above. Thank you for your input. This has really been the only health forum site I've found with active and curious users.
As for size, I learned shortly after the injury that being smaller wasn't the end of the world.. Unfortunately, it had to be after injury I found a girl I was very comfortable with and we got intimate more than once. I just told her ahead of time I had an injury and performed oral the entire time and she was totally fine with it. I was always insecure about my size and would turn girls away when they wanted to be more than friends. I don't have much insecurity about it anymore, just want sensitivity back so I can get on with my life.
Pepasan Darwayne
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Yes, clearly you must have done something in the way of damage if you noticed such a sensitivity change. I didn't mean to question that too far. However, what about the original belief that you were too small? So many of us (me included) had these anxieties as teenagers, but subsequent experience (in my case a happy marriage and two children later) all these concerns melt away with the knowledge that sex has been both pleasurable and successful for self and partner. Did you measure yourself back then?
Darwayne Pepasan
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Agreed, it's something I was far more insecure about in highschool. In the locker rooms or around my friends, Every single kid's junk was bigger than mine. I did measure and compared with legit size averages and was smaller in both dimensions, mainly girth.
It's nothing too small to work with, that's for sure and it's something that no longer concerns me. I got a lot better at talking to girls since the high school days, grew confidence, and more recently did what I should've done in the first place; started researching ways to please girls with smaller junk and/or orally. I just learned that a bit too late unfortunately.
Now I'm just focused on trying anything that might gain sensitivity back.
Pepasan Darwayne
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That explains a lot. Pity you've had to go though the anxiety of fearing you weren't made big enough and to use a remedy that has now brought on more problems than solutions. I guess if you have damaged the tissue in your penis, it may be similar to scarring on the skin surface. I'm hoping for you that time will in fact heal the damage. You may just have to be super patient. Scarring takes up to two years to heal. All good wishes.
Darwayne Pepasan
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