Personal Priapism story.

To anyone that has a penis, or loves someone that does, please don't hesitate to go to the ER in case of any unexplained issue.

Priapisms are serious.

I write this sitting with stitches in the head of mine. These stitches were put in on Sunday, and will not be coming out until next Thursday. This is because I was a stubborn ass, and instead of canceling plans on Saturday to go to the hospital, or at the very least going to hospital after other events happened, I chose instead to believe I could/was fixing it myself. I based this on past experience, as for the last 8 months or so, I have been suffering with stuttering idiosyncratic priapism. There is no definite repeatable cause of it, I don't do drugs of any kind, not a heavy drinker, don't smoke, have had no injury/trauma to the area. The only thing I know is that since last August/September, there has been many occasions when my normal sleep erection cycle has resulted in my waking up early with pain. Other mornings I would wake normally and think it was just the normal wake up erection, only to have it persist throughout my morning routine. I first went to hospital in Sept, as a Saturday morning wake up persisted even after masturbation and other physical activity. This was solved by the urologist on call performing aspiration of the blood from the corpus cavernosum. This experience taught me I am not a fan of needle play. (If any of you have seen the series True Blood, this is what Jason had done when he was doing V.)

For the next few weeks, I would wake up on Saturdays in this state, though movement and going for a drive made this go away. The next time I had to go to hospital was during the work day. I had waited until after work, after uncomfortably going about my day, and went to the hospital closest to my work. Unfortunately, this hospital did not have a urologist on call, and they sent me to the other hospital. By the time I'd gotten there (about an extra hour drive) and then sat waiting for the urologist to get there, I had started to return to a flaccid state. I informed the Dr when he arrived about my past and had thought there was arrangements made for me to have testing. This turned out not to be the case however, and I never did hear from the urology department.

For the next few months, any time I had a priapism event that was approaching the 4 hour mark, it would reset itself. A week ago, on the Tuesday, I had one that had gotten to the 4.5 hour mark, and was about to let work know I needed to leave, and it went down. Then Thursday, I woke up with one and it was gone before I even got to work.

Saturday I woke up, only about half hard, thought nothing of it. I was surfing a little porn, as you do, and after completion, went for a shower and to get ready to do a bit of work. I was still hard as I left my apartment, but didn't really think about it. A few hours later, after meeting some friends for a chat and returning to the job, I noticed I was still hard (but not painfully so). As I was finishing the job, I thought I felt myself returning to a flaccid state, but when I got back home it was hard. I started doing some stretching and movements that have helped in the past, and they seemed to be helping. All in all, I was up all night, thinking to myself that if this last bit of stretching didn't work I'd go to the hospital. Of course they felt like they were working. I don't know if that was my mind just hoping, or if it really was. I tried another round of masturbation, hoping that would reset the whole get hard/soft signal, and when it didn't I showered and left for the hospital.

Of course the hospital chided me a bit for waiting so long, to which I replied that I knew, but thought it was going away. So about 10:30am Sunday (nearly 24 hours since I woke up Saturday) the on call urologist was attempting to to aspirate, and declared the blood was too thick and I would need a procedure called Winter's Shunt. He went to check OR availability and I was told an opening would be available within the hour. As I was wheeled down the hall and waiting for the OR, I could feel a slight lessening the erection. Later the Dr told me he noticed as well, but still needed the procedure.

When I woke in recovery, I was told it went well, and it was then I noted I had a catheter in, which was a first. I had a less than comfortable night in the hospital, and in the morning the Dr looked me over, said the stitches (yes, 3 in each side) looked good. I was de-cathetered and I drank as much water and OJ as fast as I could to make sure the urine was working. At the end of the day I was given a prescription for Tylenol 3 w/codine, and polysporin for the stitches. I got the call today to come in to the Dr's clinic next Thursday, so the stitches will be in my glans for 10 days total.

I feel stupid for not going on Saturday, but I feel lucky that it seems like I'm going to get out of this with just a couple of scars under my foreskin and some bruising/swelling on one side. I will be getting the Dr to make a case study of me, because this should not be happening to me.

So guys, please, if you're erect for more that 3.5 hours without constant stimulation, start getting your ass to the ER. Ladies, sub or domme, do not let your guy ignore this.

(I originally wrote and posted this on Fetlife, but it got no response, and want as many people as possible to know about this)

(I just want to note, the reason I haven't been going into the ER every time hasn't been from embarrassment or anything like that. I live a 45-60 min drive from the hospital that has urology on call, and 9/10 times just going for a drive or shifting my seat around "cured" it. No longer will that be a factor for me however. Any sign of a priapism state, and I'm calling in sick to work and getting myself to the ER, even if it goes away on the trip.)

For those that will no doubt ask, I do have some pics. I didn't get as many as I wanted in the first little bit after the procedure because my phone battery died (I had no idea I was going to be in over night and hadn't planned/brought anything)

**UPDATE

Just saw the Dr again this morning, had the stitches removed. I have had a broken leg and having the stitches and staples (20-30 total) were no where near as painful as these 4 :(

Going to have bloodwork and see the Dr again in 6 weeks. Unless I have another event

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**UPDATE

1 week after stitches removed, still have little pangs of pain every now and then, but no priapism so far. I'm a bit worried as getting a full erection seems to need quite a bit more stimulation than before. I'm hoping this is at least semi-psychological stemming from fear of the priapism returning.