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Yeah I'm taking a daily multivitamin so its all good. I haven't noticed any neuropathy anywhere else.

Can't remmeber if I mentioned, but sometimes, rarely though, I feel pings/tingles going on in the injury area. Is that a sign of healing? Sometimes its intense and makes me go "geeeee", weird feeling. Goes away in like 5 to 10 seconds.

And those pings and tingles could get pretty awful as the new nerves try and figure out what to do.... My experience has been that when they 'come alive' again? Strange feelings mite last for 30 seconds to 10 minutes, not the constant neuropathy thrum many of us have. I welcome every new twinge as a sign of hope. Whether it is or not.
Nerves die very fast from trauma [which is what it sounds like] but take years and years to regrow! Both the large fiber and small ones as well.
All I gotta say, is....what ever you did? Don't do it again!
Good luck - j

True, thanks for the support.

All I have left is hope, amazing neurology hasn't found a solid remedy to speed the healing process.

Really does get daunting afterawhile and waiting and waiting, I honestly don't think anything else can help you attain patience than nerve damage. It's been quite the setback, but takes great mental strength to hold on and still have faith it will without any true indicators of progress.

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Originally Posted by acer123 (Post 332679)

So these nerves will heal? I'm just scared its permanent. That's why I came here, for knowledge and hope. I can't believe these things take so long to heal, practically permanent with how long they take.

hey acer, i've been batteling real bad loss of penis sensation for a long time now. over 2 years. not sure exactly how if started.(too tight a cockring for to long? street drugs? neuropathy? too many caverject injections?) sensation seems to improve sometimes, but then my sexual proclivities (cock rings and street drugs, and caverject)seem to bring it back. i'm totally impotenet with out viagra and sometimes that doesnt even work. i've resorted to caverject(u actually inject it in to ur penis, but since loss of sensation i hardly feel it)...anyway, been taking alpha lipoic acid and b-12 (1000 1x day. think i'll got to 5000 as stated above) but its still pretty bad....if anyone has any suggestions as to how to heal this damage, please bring em on. its sad and depressing arrrgh!

I've been on neurontin for about 2 years and it hasn't affected me negatively there. guess I've been lucky so far.

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Originally Posted by acer123 (Post 331063)

Literally one year ago, I happened to be partaking in penis exercises, where you try to stretch and squeeze the penis to try and make it bigger. I figured what the hay and give it a try. Unfortunately I think I pulled too hard or held to tightly on my glans.

Well my glans went numb! In a week, the numbness was gone, but I've had reduced sensitivity. I must say the sensitivity has gotten better over this past year, but still not where it's supposed to be.

I realize I can feel touch on my glans, but I cannot feel temperature (only a little bit of heat, but no cold) or much pain on it. So it goes to show some small fibers must have been damaged. Thinly myelinated and unmyelinated fibers.

Will these ever heal?? I don't believe I tore my nerve, I think that would have hurt! I probably stretched and/or compressed it too hard. Will this finally heal? Has anyone had this happen? What's the last word on nerve damage if it wasn't torn/cut? I mean its been a year now, and I admit it has felt better, and I've felt tiny tingles directly in that area in the past month.

But I think I need some hope or something, this is taking absolutely forever, for such a tiny trauma, that induced no pain, but just numbness at the time. I really pray and hope everything returns to normal. :(

Injury related neuropathy - compression/stretch, need some help.

--Please take time to read.

Hey everyone I posted in this forum about the unfortunate incident of me stretching my penis (penis enlargement exercises found on the internet), and then causing numbness in my penis glans. The numbness has definitely gone away but I still feel some reduced sensation (it has been over a year now). Actually the left side of my glans feel a bit more temperature than the right side for instance. I know this sounds like an odd story but its as true as can be, and other people who have done these penis stretching practices have experienced this.

The thread was called, nerve damage in the most unlikely places.
Here is that thread I first posted: http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/thread50665.html

I however am on here, because most of those people on those sites have limited knowledge on injuries with nerves. So I figured everyone here would know best. I realize the majority of neuropathy here deals with disease/auto immune related. This is one is without a doubt injury related however.

I've done tons of research. I must say I am getting improvement of sensation. I am just wondering if a I have a second degree injury, and not anything further. All I did was use my hands to hold onto my penis and pull, the penis is really resistant to pulling so I think the pressure of my grip over the nerve right behind the penis glans is what caused the damage. So I'd consider it more of a crush injury than a stretch, but you never know.

From what I've read as long as the epineurium is still intact recovery will be 100%, but will take much time (axonotmesis 2nd degree). However beyond 2nd degree, which as far as I can tell seems to be more from missile or blunt trauma types of injuries. The injury I suffered wasn't as I would call it 'severe'. I did not tear my penis, no blood, no bruises, nothing. However I did get numbness the next day I pulled on it.

I am hoping it is only 2nd degree injury known as axonotmesis. And not neurotmesis, which requires 'at least' the epineurium to be ruptured.

I'm just looking for answers, and I can't seem to find anymore than what I know already. I just fear I'll have reduced sensitivity forever, which would be horrible, just from a little experimentation.

This has been a very depressive, slow, yet patience gaining process. I appreciate any help.

I am currently taking about 1 gram of alcar arginate and 40mg's of methylcobalamin to help the nerves out (for a month). I just want to forget this incident and get 100% full recovery. :(

Will it heal to 100%? Do you think it was just 2nd degree nerve injury known as axonotmesis or worse (neurotmesis)? Do the small nerves that don't have myelins heal 100% as well? I really, really appreciate the help. I wish luck to all those with neuropathy of any kind, this is a very tough process.

I think your self induced injury is very difficult to visualize.

An experienced urologist would be your best bet.

I personally don't understand how you could have done this.
Given all the potential injuries this part of the body can sustain in crimes, athletics, and surgeries, one would think a doctor
would be able to advise you.

There are websites that discuss circumscision injuries, done to infants, that manifest later in adults. I'd suggest you Google those keywords.

I don't think you need 40mg of B12, that seems like an awful lot. 5mg tops. You also need attention to omega-3's, B6 and folic acid, for nerve repair.