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I am looking for a muscle that is in the abdomen that can effect a persons sexual performance. Like as in a rare full muscle partial or muscle rupture. This is not a psychological problem or anything like that. I literally felt a muscle snap and immediately went limp. I can literally point to the two sides of the muscle and say that is it right there. No doctor i have been to can properly diagnose it. It is a muscle that is from my belly button to the edge of my pubic hair. Is in constant pain but not overbaring. The pain is about 2 inches below my belly button. I have what is called a 10 second erection and it is directly linked to this injury. I went to a Urologist and he told me everything down there is fine with my, uh, penis. Like the skin is still fully attached to the muscle wall. That isn't it and i knew that just a little background. Also, i didn't break the shaft. My erection when i get one has zero reflexive tendancies. Like before It used to hit me in my belly button, now it hangs to the floor. It is not a disease at all because i caused this injury to myself on accident.
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Well, CT scans do image soft tissue, but their resolution is crappy compared to MRI. I'm not sure on the specifics of what type of MRI would be needed for this, and whether you'd need contrast or not. And yes, an MRI should be able to catch an old injury if something's still out of place. Writing down your history and a list of your symptoms to bring with you to your appointment might help make sure you tell them everything and make them believe you. I'm still flabbergasted that with such an obvious change they're trying to tell you that nothing's wrong.
I have went to a doctor and they are going to focus on getting me a MRI after reading all your comments on MedHelp. Thank you. They will need to review the CT scan even though it wont show anything wrong. Its something of a formality and actual attempt to see something wrong. Next step in my journey is MRI with contrast. Please stay in the conversation and watch my medical journey progress. Thank you your comments actually helped understand the injury more. They think that it could be a penile suspensatory ligament. And that would be less damaging than a muscle due to nerves being damaged. However, I can still get an erection so i'm optomistic in a full recovery, because there are not as many nerves in a ligament as a muscle. The symptoms are very similar to a penile suspensatory ligament from what i've read.
Yes i could be a tendon. Actually i don't know because don't tendons connect to bone? I think that this is soft tissue to soft tissue. thank you for your awnser Anonymouse88
It is possible to get an MRI from an imaging place if you are willing to pay out of pocket. I once went into an imaging place on my doctor's orders to get a certain procedure, and the doctor there offered to do an MRI of my abdomen if I wanted to have it. Maybe they had to call my doc and find out if it was OK but I don't think so.
This is actually a very good answer. How do i convince a Dr. that a MRI is the next step? They did a CT scan and I even told them that it wouldn't show a muscle problem. Then they refused to do an MRI even when i requested that first and my next question this happened a little while ago would a MRI show a little older an injury?
You might have snapped a tendon and not a muscle. My anatomy knowledge isn't good enough to tell you what muscle or tendon it could be. Go see another urologist, and demonstrate your erectile difficulties if need be (actually, just taking a video at home might be good so that you can show what happens without having to do it in person). I think an MRI would be the next logical step, since those image soft tissue.
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