Prop, can you explain your reasoning for asking this? I’m not trying to be condescending, I’m legitimately curious. I don’t have hemorroids myself, but I do have really irritated skin near my anus that I’ve had for nearly two years now. I’ve gone to a derm and a couple colon rectal surgeons but they all told me it would go away with some regimen…yet, it never heals. It’s extremely annoying, difficult to have to explain to people, and I’m entirely sure it’s related to my body not utilizing testosterone correctly to heal my skin. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Thanks man.
err… well, i have no studies nor medical community link hemorroid and sexual problem such as numbness or penis shrinking, but i read cases were ppl was arguing about some relationship. i’m not saying that fina causes rectal problems, however if u have it they could contribute worsen ur sexual issues
read this for example
I have experienced hemorrhoids. Bad ones actually for years and years, ever since I was in my early 20s! If you read about hemorrhoids, most all of us experience them in life. If they are internal near the rectum they may not be able to be noticed by pain. If they are real bad, in my case and since my entire family has them, it appears that the swollen tissue inside the rectum is in the same area as the pudendal nerves, which contain the dorsal nerves that lead to your penis. I have real bad cases of hemorrhoids in last 12 months of bleeding, hard to take a dump, etc. With this condition of swollen tissue inside my rectum, it seems to be an real problem with the feelings of numbness, loss of sensation on my foreskin, swollen prostate gland, etc. Since all these nerves are in the same area, I think this is the issue. The same nerves that control the anus muscles also are intertwined with the nerves that make your penis have feelings, The ejaculation muscle is the same muscles that that make all that area work too. If your penis has seemed to shrink up inside you, and if it looks like a tiny little mushroom when its relaxed, then it means the that there is pressure in your rectum, thus leading to loss feelings. A rubber feeling on the foreskin is usually the sign of these loss feelings. With this theory, and since the majority of 40s plus men have hemorrhoids, no wander ED is an issue. My penis still works, I wake up with wood, I still can cum, but its not near the same. I’m hopefully getting the hemorrhoid surgery done, or whatever other method fixes these things, and hopefully the feelings will return. Hope this helps…
or this
I had erectile dysfunction for a couple of years. Somehow my doctors thought that this was not going to last long, because all my test came in ok. But it lasted almost 2 years. My doctors thought it was an overactive bladder and gave me flomax . It worked for the erection only because it relaxes your muscles. He also gave me some viagra. I mentioned to my doctor once that my anal area is always painful and itchy. I asked him if it has anything to do with my erectile dysfunction or overactive bladder. He said that they do share the same nerve system, although he doubts if thats the cause. After going to see so many doctors and going through so many test. I finally decided to see a colon specialist and have my hemorrhoids removed by banding. Within a few weeks, I was feeling better. Within 2 months I have stopped all medications. I made love to my wife everyday this week. All natural, no viagra, no flomax. I would say I am close to 100 percent recovered. I plan on going back to see my doctors in about a month and report what I have gone through. I hope this will help other men as well.
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You know, I wondered if that had any effect on me…I know that my rectal problems had shown signs of returning during my run of finasteride but were not caused from finasteride, as I’ve had them before. And this is interesting because I was actually thinking the presence of the skin that’s sensitive has been detracting from my healing overall because my body’s trying to heal too many things at once and not having success. This, to me, just gives credence to my thoughts, and will likely have me go to my derm to hopefully get some more help. Maybe once I fix this, some other areas, e.g. sensitivity as the two accounts implied, can improve, and maybe once those improve my body will have even less to work on and I’ll be able to recover completely! Oh, what a nice thought that would be. Well, regardless, I’m going to have this situation fixed if I can. Thanks tremendously for your feedback prop.
Great find, prop. Will look into this immediately.
u r welcome 
Hey man, I don’t really have bowel problems. I’ve had hems in the past, but they have since healed. So like a lot of the other guys on here, my libido was awesome after New Years (from the alcohol), but it’s kind of gone back to normal (low) since then. I’m still getting mild morning erections though so that’s a good sign, but it’s still pretty veiny down there.
I’m considering getting an rx for Cialis and trying that out, but I don’t feel like spending the money! I wonder since I didn’t get the major shrinkage/total impotence problems, something like L-Argenine and something milder might work. Tab, have you taken any supplements that have worked for you?
Yes I used L-arginine (5mg maybe? I don’t remember, I’ll let you know), a very low dose, it did work pretty well on me; it did give me some spontaneous erection too in the day, pretty normal penis if I remember correct. I suggest trying this, maybe by cycling it if you take a higher dose. But don’t expect long term effects. In the very best case it can make you more relaxed because you don’t have to deal with your penis all the time; and the healing might come over easily.
I also used Cialis and a pill containing various herbs that act like a natural viagra/cialis. Cialis is stronger, but in turn it has terrifying side effects 
They both worked and made me quite normal. Tough when I withdrawn them, I still didn’t get morning or spontaneous erections and hourglass returned. Erections were sometimes really difficult to achieve. So I turned to the holistic approach.
Tab, what kind of autogenic stuff have you tried? Also, how often did you take your doses of L-arginine?
My symptoms are still coming and going (hopefully in the right direction), I just want to take it easy and not worry so much.
Mine actually does the opposite and seems to try to fill up occassionally when I take a dump. I have no idea what that means.
Also, what’s “hard flaccid”? Is that where it’s flaccid, but seems longer than normal? Mine is like that. It used to be tiny when flaccid, now it hangs pretty long. Not sure what that’s all about.
WorstTimingEver, I do autogenic training on occasions, with a focus on whole body/mind relaxation but particularly on the pelvic area. You can find mp3s on emule or other sharing netowrks. They will give you a guide on doing autogenic training (find a good one). This gives me some good momentaneous relief, but I know it has long term benefits (eventhought slowly) and at this point, other than the tinglings I have, I am getting somewhat better by using this one and Intermittent Fasting. There is a tension, at least in my case, in the pelvic area and in the penis; this has been discussed many times. This is extremely clear when I do autogenic training. Sometimes when I try to relax, my penis starts to contract repeatedly, which is really incredible. I do not use it, as it should be, 3 times a day, because that pelvic area is so tense that it is sometimes frustrating to try to relax it, and also autogenic training requires some time and the correct atmosphere. If you stress out it might be counteproductive.
I am experiencing that profound respiration is also very important, and I do it pretty often. When done correctly it stimulates the vagus nerve when you exhale. The vagus nerve is the major nerve of the parasympathetic nervous system. This literally kills stress and in the long run it would help restoring a balance between the sympathetic and parasympathetic NSs (I was diagnosed with sympathetic nervous system hypertone, which has something to do too with the tension in the pelvic area). I also use it before the autogenic training.
I was taking L-arginine two times everyday (lunch and dinner), a low dose. I used it for some weeks. Things got much better when I started trying to kill the stress.
I see. The only thing I experience similar to that is that it sometimes seems semi-full when flaccid, but I wouldn’t say hard. More like it tried to get erect and failed and is in that inbetween phase.
Random musing: My testicular pain came back with a vengeance recently, and I’ve found the more I ejaculate, the more the pain/irritation goes away. No idea if this helps anyone, but it’s helped me a lot.
My god! Very similar, however mine is little different i can feel in my mind when my penis actually shrivels and creates an hourglass shape. I have flaccid hourglass issue and it happens when i try to hold my poop or urine or… if it gets cold… Has anyone know anything about this?
- There must be a connection between pelvic muscles and penis tissue? I don’t know how! Is pelvic floor and general pelvic (gluteus maximus) muscles have an effect on Penis tissue? How the hell my squeeze of the ass affects my penis shape???!! Please someone has to shed a light on this! There is no muscles involved on penis, just tissue right?
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no one???
What is the relation between hemorroids and hourglass penis?? I just realized i developed painless hemorroids this winter and the exact time line my hourglass flaccid penis got worsened. Wtf is going on?
My penis is exactly like this: shrivels and develops a hourglass shape when taking a shit.
My guess is, it’s pelvic floor related. I did a few sessions with a chiropractor who relaxed pressure points down there, and it helped by quite a large degree (but still not complete recovery). He told me in all his years he’s never seen anyone’s pelvic floor so tense.
My guess is this is due to prostate volume changes induced by Finasteride, and the pelvic floor muscles adjust accordingly.
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Any opinions about this one? My hourglass flaccids are still there… its weird. Happens before going to toilet or stressed or after going out from the sea.
anatomical proximity to the urogenital tract if I was to take a stab at this. I think it could be as simple as some type of inflammation pinching nerves, blood flow, oxygen, muscles. I had a colon polyp this past year, now I get to go back in 5. im 36. i’ve even read on something that might be a possibility, colon shortening. I’m not sure how easily recognizable this would be from a colonoscopy.
On a positive note, I did read on a experimental study this was restorable.
These are different diseases, but an example.
In UC the involvement of the mucosal and submucosal layers causes a thickening of the muscularis mucosae with accumulation of ECM that may contribute to shortening or stiffening of the colon, whereas in CD the transmural nature of the inflammatory process is followed by bowel wall thickening, and eventually formation of stricture and stenosis.1
They found no indication of cd or uc on my last biopsy.
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So you are recovered your PFS with removing your hemorroids?