Reversing Peyronie's Disease  

The blood vessels of the private parts become clogged up with fibrous plaque, which restricts it from expanding on the afflicted side. This causes it to bend, indent or create an hourglass shape when excited.

Peyronie's Disease can affect men of all ages. It can be caused by different traumas ranging from intercourse, a sports injury, or conditions like diabetes. Any of these can cause fibrous plaque to build up in blood vessels and the tissue, restricting one side of your private parts from expanding when excited. As a result, it curves upwards, downwards, sideways and occasionally around the circumference.

Peyronie’s disease can be caused by a minor injury to your manhood. This injury is often caused by intercourse, for example, bending your private parts do too undue pressure from your partner.

It can also be caused by sports injuries, such as a ball hitting you between your legs or otherwise what appear initially as minor accidents such as being kicked by a child. The injury can then cause scar tissue to develop in the cells of your private parts. This scar tissue then forms what is known as the plaque of Peyronie’s disease – a hard lump on the tissue.

There are other reasons for Peyronie’s disease plaques formation. Health related issues, such as high blood sugar, tobacco use, or historic pelvic trauma may help cause Peyronie’s disease.

Additionally, men with connective tissue disorders, such as Dupuytren’s contracture, may suffer from it. While there can also be a genetic link where men who have a family member who suffers with Peyronie’s disease have an increased likelihood of getting it.

The sooner that someone with, or who suspects they have Peyronie’s disease, sees a Men’s health specialist, the better the chances for a good outcome.

Here are some potential signs of Peyronie’s disease that you should seek advice about:

• Your Manhood curves when erect
• It shortens
• Narrowing or “hourglass” on the shaft
• Lumps in the manhood
• Painful when hard
• Unexpectedly soft

A physical exam by a doctor or other consultant is often sufficient to identify the presence of scar tissue in the private parts, allowing the diagnosis of Peyronie’s disease. On occasion, other conditions cause similar symptoms and these need to be ruled out.

During a physical exam, a doctor will investigate your manhood through palpation and observation when it’s not hard. This is so that the location and amount of scar tissue can be found. The doctor might also measure the length of your manhood. This initial measurement helps determine whether you have suffered shortened if the condition continues to worsen.

Peyronie’s disease is a condition that results from fibrous scar tissue developing in your manhood. It causes a curved bend in your manhood that can be significant. This bend can often cause pain especially during intercourse.

Peyronie’s disease mostly affects men aged over 40, although it can happen at any age. It can also be started following intercourse (read How do you get Peyronie’s Disease?).

When you get Peyronie’s disease, plaques (segments of flat scar tissue), form beneath the skin of your private parts and it is these that cause it to bend or become indented. The plaque (scar tissues) can develop anywhere along the reproductive organ and can often be felt through the skin and be painful when touched.

In severe cases, the curve in the private parts can make having intercourse extremely painful, difficult, or even impossible.

Peyronie’s disease may also lead to further rmen's health problems.

It is extremely rare for Peyronie’s disease to go away on its own. For the vast majority of men, the condition will remain as is or worsen in stages over a period of time.

Early treatment soon after developing the condition can keep it from getting worse and if using Shockwave therapy alleviate the condition. Even if you’ve had the condition for some time, this treatment can help improve symptoms in the majority of cases. Contact us for further details and confidential consultations.

You will need to provide us with your medical history and full details of any pills you are currently taking, so we can ensure you are a candidate for shockwave therapy.

You should also remove excess hair from your private regions and ensure good hygiene before the visit.

Peyronie’s disease (PD) is named after French surgeon François Gigot de la Peyronie, who described the condition in 1743. He described a patient who had “rosary beads of scar tissue to cause an upward curvature of the male private parts during erection.”

 PD is indicated by a curvature in the shaft that is often preceded by pain and accompanied by an area of fibrosis.

The condition was first described in 1561 in correspondence between Andreas Vesalius a Flemish anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (On the Fabric of the Human Body) and Gabriele Falloppio, an Italian Catholic priest and anatomist often known by his Latin name Fallopius. The Fallopian Tube is named after him.

Read more about The History of Peyronie’s Disease.

As outlined in our Peyronie’s Disease Treatment Option page, Shockwave therapy for Peyronie’s disease is the only non-invasive treatment that provides long lasting results without the need for surgery.

Unless you have a pre-existing condition like haemophilia you will not experience any marks or bruising during or after your treatment.

You may experience mild discomfort, but nothing worse than a moderate visit to the dentist.

Whilst the majority of patients experience improvements after the initial programme of treatment, Peyronie’s Disease can be a very stubborn condition and in some instances is resistant to all non-invasive treatments and non-surgical treatments.

We can only treat men over the age of 18-years. After that, we have successfully treated men well into their 70's.