Peyronie’s Disease – Long Term Effects

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If Peyronie’s disease is left untreated, there’s one of a few things that could happen. In a small minority of guys, it will get better. It will just get better on its own, it’ll naturally start to straighten out a little bit. Maybe not to the same degree that it was before, but it should straighten out a little bit. If left untreated, there’s a couple of things that can happen with Peyronie’s disease. A small minority of men will start to get better. It won’t necessarily get to the same straight penis as it was before, but it should get somewhere close to that. A good chunk of men will actually have a stable disease where it won’t get better, it won’t get worse, but it’ll essentially just stay at that degree of curvature. No real pain associated with it, but you’ll have a curvature. And a lot of those guys do well without any kind of treatment, and the angle and the curvature of the penis doesn’t limit their ability to have intercourse. And then there’s a good chunk of men with their curvature will actually get worse. Slowly over time, that collagen deposition, that plaque formation, that scar, will slowly start to become so tight and so severe that that tethering, that curvature, even penile shortening will start to happen. At that point, that’s really when they’re unable to have a good sexual quality of life.