u/RugoseBeef

I made a post already regarding tadalafil, but I recently tried using a cock ring and it made my dick harder than it ever has been before. I even got one where there is an attached bottom ring to put your balls into, which is amazing for hard flaccid because my balls while Im erect always stay high and retracted. This completely solved the issue. I've also come to the conclusion that having orgasm wont make your HF worse and nofap is a complete waste of time.

Hey everyone, I just want to make a quick report that if youre not on cialis and you haven't tried you are making your life more miserable than it needs to be. I got HF about 3 months ago so way early into this still, but I presented with the usual signs: cold glans, poor glans perfusion, hard and tight retracted penis in the flaccid state, intermittent transitions to LF, random pains in the penis and in the region, twist to the right, scrotum sagging more on the same right side, and worst of all ED. I will say that my ED wasn't so bad that I didn't have any morning wood, I still got it everyday just about, but it was mediocre at best, sometimes just a quarter chub, and never any glans perfusion. The past week I've been taking 5mg Tadalafil every night and my penis is functioning way better. I've been able to get 100% erections with full glans perfusion and tried masturbating and everything was fine. I am single right now so I haven't had sex but I imagine it should be fine as well. So much of the psychological burden of this has been lifted. Yes, things are still not normal or perfect, but knowing I can still have a normal sex life is so relieving. Please try it if you haven't yet.

Hello everybody, I wanted to make this post primarily to share my experience and also if someone had a similar origin of their issue as me, to maybe reassure them it could be okay. I am not sure I qualify as someone who actually suffered from Hard Flaccid Syndrome, I'm pretty sure I didn't, but I definitely 100% experienced the state of hard flaccid as well as soft glans.

Prior to the day everything started going wrong, I had been jerking off twice per day, in quick succession. Meaning that the second time I would jerk off I would still be mostly flaccid and hadn't given myself anytime to recover in the refractory period. I had been doing that for maybe 2-3 weeks. And one day, after I had finished that way, I went to pee and felt a sharp pain that I've never felt before.

I didn't think much of it after that until the following morning. My morning erection was extremely weak, and not only weak, but the blood was not reaching the top of my penis leaving it entirely soft. I thought that was strange but I just figured maybe it was just a weaker morning. But a little after that I went to do my morning routine involving a wank, and noticed that again I could not reach a full erection and the blood was unable to get to the glans. And it wasn't a floppy weak erection, but it felt concerning like something was just really wrong with it. I did orgasm but I figured I should give it a couple of days before going again.

However, the following morning I had the same kind of weak soft glans erection. I tried pushing blood into the tip but I was unable to. This scared the shit out of me. I started googling and found out about hard flaccid and soft glans. I started panicking and thinking I had destroyed my penis forever. This was possibly one of the worst days of my life. I was crying and convinced it was over for me. This is when I first started noticing the actual "Hard Flaccid" quality described. It was retracted, unable to move in any normal capacity, felt detached from my body, was cold, and basically as if nothing were there at all. It was really spooky.

The next day I tried to calm down a bit. I read around here and other places on the internet and learned that doing stretching can help. So I began maniacally stretching my pelvic floor. Doing deep squat holds, child's pose, and a bunch of others I can't remember the name of. I was stretching easily 30 min- 1 hour per day, as well as walking for 1-2 hours.

After that I began noticing that whenever I went to pee, my penis would temporarily go back to normal while I peed. It felt like how it always did and would go to normal flaccid. Shortly after peeing it would return to hard flaccid, but this gave me some hope.

Almost miraculously when I woke up the following morning, my penis had returned to its normal flaccid state. My erections were still weak and basically non existent outside of morning wood, but my flaccid penis returned. Slowly thereafter each day, my erection quality would improve until I was finally seeing the glans engorge with blood and my full erection return to how it was.

I can't say what happened or why, but I do know that for at least a few days I had what was called Hard Flaccid, and I am using the definition that Dr Goldstein has in paper that defines it. I don't know if stretching did anything, I am inclined to believe it would have healed naturally anyway, but Im not sure. I am also a long time weightlifter and have being doing heavy squats, deadlifts and hip thrusts for years anyway, so maybe that helped me.