Hey Neuropathy76,
I have been experiencing the same numbness in my glans due to nerve compression as with you and acer for about 5 weeks now. There is some touch sensitivity on the outer skin but no temperature or pressure sensitivity.

Has your numbness recovered any since you posted last month? Mine has been staying the same so far. I am optimistic considering no serious damage could have been done but also frustrated that I have to wait for an uncertain amount of time to heal.
I've found a few older internet posts on this subject where the original poster drops off after a couple weeks and does not give status updates further down the road, which sucks. Personal accounts are far more valuable than articles.

Hey, Acer, I'm sorry for such long post, but I'm sure that I could relate to your thread here.
I have Penile numbness too. I will explain my numbness in this comment.

I read through most all of the comments you recieved here and I'm sorry that you have been given little sympathy. I haven't seen much sympathy either since I began seeking medical help for mine. I guess it is easy to say that we are seeking attention cause being men we tend to freak out when we are faced with genital problems. But I wouldn't see it as a weakness cause we have to take care of our reproductivity ability (if no men cared humans could end up extinct!), Right? Because of my situation I've taken alot of time and effort searching for techniques, treatments and nutritional advice, so that's how I came across this at neurotalk. That all was promising but for me not the least bit of a cure. Perhaps you'll do well to take nutrition and healthy living as a "must do" since it could avoid some other problem that is potentialy just as undesirable as the numbness or worse. Just common sense is not what I mean to preach, but since you have seen recovery of some sensation, it's hopefull that with time, more improvement will occur. I hope you can keep a record/diary of the changes since that could help others in future if you'd be willing to share it. I've also found info pertaining to injury to a penis from stretching exercises/techniques. I know you're not alone for that type of injury.
The likely cause of my numbness is from nerve damage in the penis itself. I have had Stuttering/Recurring Priapism throughout the past 17 years. This is an erection that persists without reason for times longer than normal (more than 4 hours at a time)causing variable degrees of damage to erectile tissues, nerves, blood vessels, tunica albuginea, and various related muscles. There has not been any reason determined (diagnosis) why I have these priapismic episodes. And in all my research Stuttering Priapism is usually not found to have any underlying cause. In my case it started gradually in my early teens and became most severe in my early 20's then stopped suddenly only to begin gradually again in my 30's. Throughout all this time I've suffered with loss of sensation in my penis to many varying degrees. The worst being in my 20's after an episode that lasted 11hours. It was traumatic to realize that I had no feeling in my penis anywhere like it was no longer a part of me. I couldn't acheive erection or pleasure until more than a year later. But it never ever became 100% sensation since that time. My penis glans has become the least sensitve of all my genital areas. I'm assuming its because that is the longest and most delicate/vulnerable of the nerve pathways in the penis. When I did recover some sensation it was always the frenulum that recovered first. I'm very thankfull to still have that intact since I was circumcised as an infant but have read that some circumcision procedures do remove the frenulum portion too. I seemed to recover sensation gradually but only when the priapismic episodes stopped occuring for longer than a month. And I often had sensation loss immediately after the next episode of priapism. As you might guess my sexlife is an "isn't",but I'm very happily married to the most wounderful woman and have a miracle too (my very own son)!
The other possibility to my numbness is a spinal nerve issue. I have had some traumas in the past to my lower back (car accident x2) (falling on ice ahhh TAILBONE!)(hit in back with baseball bat)(heavy lifting and immediate pain) (riding bicycle BMX style)and (off-road motorcycling). The last two were almost worth the risk but at least "intentional".
I'd be ok with sharing more if you can reach me on this forum or via email. But best of luck and hope your future is brighter.

Back in 2006 when I was 19 I was masturbating and was too rough with my penis. I pushed down on it heard a crack their was hematoma, pain followed by numbness. I went to the urologist days later. He told me everything was fine and just wait. Then he gave me an ultrasound just in case. So I took the ultrasound and everything came back fine.

My penis was numb for a couple of months until I masturbated one day and all the sensitivity in my penis came back after orgasm. Stupidly, I masturbated again and this time the ejaculate was 5 seconds off from the orgasm. That never happened to me before so I masturbated again, but this time I had no orgasm but I ejaculated. I masturbated again but the same thing happened. I masturbated again but the same thing happened. So I freaked out and grabbed the bottom shaft of my penis and squeezed it hard with my right hand. Then all the sensitivity just drifted away and I was numb again.

Ever since then the underside of my penis has been numb. The right underside of the shaft is numb. The right shaft is numb. The head isn’t as sensitive anymore. Orgasms are less pleasurable. And the head doesn’t get super sensitive after orgasms anymore. Now I can’t get erections from visual stimulation ,or hugging and kissing or just being close to a girl. I need direct stimulation to my penis to get an erection.

I’ve done 2 ultrasounds and a MRI that all came back normal.

Cause of numbness?
1. Dorsal nerve is compressed
2. compression of the dorsal nerve of the penis against the lower border of the pubic bone
3. dorsal nerve is compressed by penis ligament
4. pudendal nerve entrapment
5. damaged dorsal nerve in penis
6. damaged sensory nerves

i went to the neurologist 2 days ago and he said it could be a compressed nerve or it could be peripheral nerve damage which im praying its not. he gave me 2 mri's one for lumbar spine and one for pelvis which im going to do in 4 days.

what do you guys think? do you think it could most likely be peripheral nerve damage? or a trapped nerve?

is their surgery for this type of injury?

do you think this is permanent? its already been 5 years

--that these symptoms followed trauma, compression of either the dorsal nerve of the penis or the major nerve it branches off of, the pudendal nerve, is likely.

It's good they're doing MRI's, but make sure that when they do the one of the pelvis the radiological interpreters are told to specifically look at the pudendal nerve branches and the areas they pass through--soemtimes they pay more attention to the hip bones themselves.

See:

http://www.pudendal.com/

http://www.pudendalhope.org/

http://www.tipna.org/

Hello everyone,

Have posted this elsewhere but this seems the better place.

Sensitive info here but hopefully you can help.

About 8 months ago I sustained a sexual injury to my penis where I felt an extremely sharp pain at the base. I had been experiencing some loss of sensitivity leading up to this (possibly due to alcohol or a little to much masturbation) but after this injury I have now sustained about 60-70% loss of sensitivity.

I am trying to abstain from all sex and masturbation and have been doing hot/cold wraps, b6, b12, sam-e, carnitine/ALA.

I believe when symptoms first started to appear I didnt give things enough time to heal and most likely kept irritating the nerves. Just these past couple months have I started this regimen.

So my question is after all this time and some repeated irritation of the nerves after injury, am I past the point of no return? Could I still have a chance to regenerate? Can nerves heal if not completely severed?

Maybe I should get some MRIs of the pelvic/penile area as well to make sure nothing major happened during the injury in terms of a compressed/pinched nerve?

Any advice greatly appreciated. Thanks.

so it turn out iv been doing some research and when all the sensation came back i think i had a incomplete injury **

im hoping that it is still incomplete injury even through 5 years have passed...sigh

just in case you don't know after the sensation came back...i ** squeezed my penis because i was ejaculating and then orgasming 5 seconds later so i freaked out and squeezed my penis ** and its been numb ever since

in the mornings its the worst its extremely numb and uncomfortable i feel like theirs so much pressure on my pubic bone. i still get morning erections but they go away extremely fast unlike before.

can people give me opinions please?

I know you're a bit young, but has anyone screened your prostate just to rule it out as a factor?

yeah they my uro would of told me about it in the soft tissue mri that i got back.

i really wish i just didnt squeeze my penis once i got the sensation back and its been 5 years already. im so sad. iv been praying so much that this isnt permanent.

Hey man,

I hear you guys, I have had the exact same problems. I did those stretching exercises (even though I didnt need to, I was just very insecure) and after masturbating one night I was left with little sensation in m penis and all the other classic symptoms.

Symptoms included, as Im sure you may have experienced:

- Lack of sensation
- Lack of nocturnal and spontaneous erection
-'Firm flaccid' penis

My Dr was absolutely of no help - he said to just take it easy and hope for the best.

I have found that in the year since it happened, Gingko Biloba has helped a lot and there are other similar products out there.

My feeling is that the nerves are so delicate etc that it will take a few years to fully rejuvenate.

Thanks and please share your thoughts on this