What is Peyronie’s disease?
Peyronie’s disease is a condition where scar tissue (called plaque) forms inside the penis. This plaque is not visible on the skin but develops under the surface, in the tunica albuginea — the elastic tissue that normally allows the penis to straighten during erection.
When scar tissue builds up, it cannot stretch the same way as healthy tissue. This creates an abnormal bend or curve in the penis during erection.
The condition was first described in the 1700s by François Gigot de la Peyronie, a French physician who served King Louis XV.
What causes Peyronie’s disease?
Doctors do not fully know why Peyronie’s disease develops, but research suggests several possible causes:
- Genetics: Men with a family history or with connective tissue disorders (such as Dupuytren’s contracture) are more at risk.
- Injury or repeated microtrauma: Bending or trauma to the penis during sex, sports, or accidents may trigger abnormal healing.
- Abnormal scar formation: Instead of repairing normally, the body forms hard fibrous tissue that pulls the penis to one side.
In some men, Peyronie’s disease may appear suddenly without any clear trigger.
Common symptoms
Peyronie’s disease affects men differently. The most frequent symptoms include:
- Curved penis: The bend can point upward, downward, or sideways.
- Penile pain: Usually worse in the early phase, even without an erection.
- Lumps or hardened areas: Plaques may be felt under the skin.
- Erectile dysfunction: Trouble getting or keeping an erection.
- Penis shortening: Caused by the scar tissue contracting.
- Sexual difficulties: Penetration may be painful or impossible if the curve is severe.
Is Peyronie’s disease dangerous?
Peyronie’s disease is not life-threatening, but it can seriously affect quality of life. Men often experience stress, anxiety, or embarrassment, which may lead to avoidance of sexual activity.
Treatment and management
Treatment depends on the severity of the curve, how long symptoms have been present, and whether sexual function is affected. Options include:
1. Watch and wait
Mild cases may not need active treatment if curvature is small and sexual activity is still possible.
2. Medications
- Injectable therapy (collagenase clostridium histolyticum): Available in some countries to help break down plaque.
- Other drugs: Oral medicines and injections are under study but results vary.
3. Traction devices
Medical traction devices gently stretch the penis over time. With regular use, these can reduce curvature and sometimes restore lost length.
4. Surgery
For men with severe or stable Peyronie’s disease who cannot have sex due to curvature, surgical options include:
- Plaque incision or excision with grafting
- Plication (shortening the opposite side)
- Penile implants (for men with erectile dysfunction and significant curvature)
When should you see a doctor?
You should consult a urologist if you notice:
- A new curve in your penis
- Lumps or scar tissue
- Painful erections
- Trouble with sexual intercourse
Early diagnosis can help determine the best treatment and prevent worsening of the condition.
Key facts to remember
- Peyronie’s disease is a condition caused by scar tissue in the penis.
- It may be linked to genetics, injury, or abnormal wound healing.
- Symptoms include curvature, pain, erectile dysfunction, and sexual difficulty.
- Treatment options range from observation and traction therapy to injections and surgery.
- A urologist can provide the most effective and safe treatment plan.
Summary
Peyronie’s disease is a penile condition that causes curvature, pain, and erectile problems due to scar tissue buildup. It can affect men of all ages but is more common after 40. Treatments include traction therapy, injections, and surgery, depending on severity. Men noticing a new curve or pain should see a urologist for diagnosis and treatment.
Peyronie’s Disease — FAQs
1) What is Peyronie’s disease? Peyronie’s disease is the development of fibrous scar tissue (plaque) in the tunica albuginea of the penis, which can cause curvature, pain, and erectile difficulties during erection.
2) What causes it? The exact cause isn’t fully known. Likely factors include repeated micro-injury during sexual activity, a genetic predisposition, and abnormal wound-healing that leads to scar formation.
3) Who is most at risk? It’s more common in men over 40 and in those with certain connective-tissue conditions (e.g., Dupuytren’s contracture). Diabetes, smoking, and vascular disease may increase risk.
4) What are typical symptoms? Curvature during erection, palpable plaques or hardened areas, penile pain (often early on), shortening or narrowing (hourglass deformity), and sometimes erectile dysfunction.
5) Does Peyronie’s disease have stages? Yes. An early “active/inflammatory” phase (pain and changing curvature) is followed by a more “stable/chronic” phase where pain often settles but curvature tends to persist.
6) How is it diagnosed? Clinical examination and medical history are key. Doctors may use penile ultrasound (often with Doppler) and, in some cases, photographs of the erect penis to document curvature.
7) Can it go away on its own? Spontaneous improvement can occur, but many cases stabilize and some worsen. Early medical assessment helps guide timing of treatment.
8) What non-surgical treatments exist? Options may include observation, pain control in the active phase, collagenase injections (available in some countries), and medical penile traction therapy used consistently over months. Evidence for oral supplements is limited.
9) Do traction devices work? When used correctly and consistently (typically hours per day over months), medical-grade traction can modestly reduce curvature and may help recover some length. Discuss suitability and technique with a urologist.
10) When is surgery considered? For stable disease with function-limiting curvature or complex deformity, or when significant erectile dysfunction coexists. Procedures include plication, plaque incision/excision with grafting, and penile prosthesis in selected cases.
11) Is Peyronie’s disease cancer? No. Peyronie’s plaques are benign scar tissue, not cancer.
12) What can I do at home? Avoid traumatic bending, manage cardiovascular risk factors (e.g., stop smoking, control diabetes), and seek early urologic advice. Psychological support may help with stress and relationship impacts.
13) Can it be prevented? There’s no proven prevention, but reducing penile trauma and managing vascular health may lower risk.
14) When should I see a doctor? If you notice a new curve, pain, plaques, shortening, or trouble with intercourse/erections—book a urology consult.
What is peyronies (kw) disease? Is the percentage of men getting peyronies more than 3% of the population, as reported by medical industry? Are peyronies and arthritis (kw) diseases similar to heavy plaque calcification (kw) formations in the body? Are peyronies and arthritis true diseases or ´old age´ pain zones?
According to medical industry there is no known cure to peyronies, also known as ´bent penile.´ There are lots of websites on the subject penile repair, mostly linked to medical doctors pitching their preferred medical medicines or surgical recommendations. Several active bulletin boards on the internet are pitching their favorite doctors and services to the general public. All have given the Bee venom treatment plans a bad report.
There is much of evidence about hard plaque calcification, regarding Arthritis suffers and their long term relief programs via honey bee venom injections. There are thousands of these Bee Venom clinics worldwide.
Since the immune system is basically responsible for placing heavy plaque calcification throughout the body, including the plating of teeth. It is the same immune system that puts heavy plaque calcification deposits on the male penile appendage (kw).
Once the immune system identifies any area a damaged zone, like hands and feet or other skeleton joints of the body, heavy plaque calcification deposits are imminent to keep the body in a state of well being! In other words, when the body receives impacts, internal bruising of sorts, the same immune system begins immediate repairs via patching up within the damaged zone with heavy plaque calcification deposits which I call, ´c-patches.´
With more than 100,000 Honey Bee Venom Self Treatment Therapists (kw) in USA alone; worldwide the numbers must be huge. By searching on the internet many of these clinics called, Bee Venom Treatment (BVT) c enters, can be found!
Unfortunately like medical doctors discussed above, Honey Bee Venom Self Treatment Therapists do charge fees. The cheapest bee venom clinic is in China, charging $18 per session (Kang Tai Bee Clinic.
For arthritis suffers the number of required sessions to achieve some long-term pain relief is expensive. This is generally true for entire BVT industry; fees can be well over $100 each.
Even so, peyronies suffers must start somewhere, even learn how to copy the BVT application process as do insulin suffers.
If interested, go visit Honey Bee Venom Therapist in the local area and make an appointment to receive one bee sting at a time. The target area is top side of penis in the center, avoid any blood vessels. Do not sting anywhere else on the penis. The treatment is one injection in center on penis shaft –always topside– for 5 seconds to 10 seconds. Do this once a week for 6 months. After 6 months increase dose to 2 beestings, but one bee sting into the two expansion chambers on each side of penis shaft. This can be applied 1 bee sting every 3 or 4 days per week, not at the same time. The bee stinger injection time can be increased from 5 seconds, 10 seconds and after a few months to 1 minute maximum. Please note, it takes 1,200 bee stings to be in critical condition.
Also, removing bee stingers is always by the sliding of one´s finger nail to flip it outward from the penis. Avoid pinching bee stinger with finger tips.
The treatment schedule is once a week. If done by a doctor or BVT specialist the bill could be rather expensive. With all said, it now becomes obvious one must become a Honey Bee Venom Self Treatment Therapist! If one takes time to learn this special skill it could become very useful to family members suffer from Arthritis of hands and feet.
What are the levels of peyronies in men? There are possibly 6 levels total, four are commonly claimed, and two less known. All are due to one´s immune system declaring the penis a damaged zone, followed by immediate c-patch deposition during deflation. And when the penis expansion chambers are activated one only needs to look downward to see the level of distortion.
1. Any major bend extended over the entire length of penile appendage or penis.
2. Any bend in area of penile head.
3. Bumps on the penile shaft called, heavy plaque deposits.
4. Ridges running length of penile shaft called, fibrous plaque deposits (kw)
5. Non-fibrous plaque that sheet entire penile shaft resulting in loss of hardness.
6. Heavy plaque calcification fractures, breaking penile shaft into several smaller links.
There are few useful documentation linking arthritis and peyronies diseases on the internet.
Simply speaking, the immune system has chosen to repair all internal bruising within the body with heavy plaque calcification deposits. These deposits are laminates of calcification deposits, to include plaque on teeth, fingers or toes joints.
The immune system seeks a state of well being when not protecting the body for infections of all kinds. When immune system is alerted it goes directly to the — damaged zones, and it will place c-patches 24 hours a day.
THE GOOD NEWS
It takes the immune system many years of laying c-patches in any declared damage zone, and it takes Honey Bee Venom Therapy only a few months to remove all signs of c-patches put on by the immune system!
THE C-PATCH STORY
To keep it simple the immune system makes these c-patches out of excess calcium within body. The state of well being is always the goal of the immune system. Therefore easy repairs of internally bruised areas, due to work or play, receive c-patches. The laying down of these c-patches by the immune system is long-term and will not stop! In the case of Arthritis of hands and feet, distortions are both visible and painful. In the case of the penis, the same conditions c-patch placement s apply.
The process of injecting honey bee stingers releases venom into the selected body parts, in this case the penis. The venom travels across all connective tissues within the penis, so one bee sting is ample venom per application to begin with. The two bee sting method, after six months of one bee sting per week, is to remove all c-patches within the two side expansion chambers on penis shaft.
Basically, the bee venom coats everything in its path like all venoms do in nature. Since the penis is rather isolated extension of the total body mass, all the connective tissues within the penis get contaminated with bee venom—to including many of the laminates of c-patches within the penis structure.
The immune system is alerted and sent to the zone with bee venom contamination to make a determination of the toxin invasion. It immediately selects and removes all free moving bee venom toxins within all connective tissues of penis structure. But when it comes to removing the bee venom contaminated c-patches laminates– the immune system cannot separate the venom for c-patches are not living tissues, only inorganic matter. Since many of the laminates are tinted or coated, all contaminated c-patches get removed by the immune system.
Eventually and after several months of bee sting injections the entire penis area gets devoid of c-patches all together. The results are visible and immediate relief from peyronies occurs.
Honey Bee Venom Treatment Therapists have known the link between bee venom injections and arthritis relief. Maybe this same group will take a more serious look at the above folk bee venom treatment plan and begin treatments plans of their own for peyronies suffers.
Sincerely,
beesting