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Penis injury. How do I make it heal? does this look serious?

I'm a diabetic 25 year old male and i masturbate a lot. i noticed that i injured the head of my penis but i'm worried that more might be going on. here's what it looks like right now: https://imgur.com/a/GX1RclK  it's actually very dry but i have been putting some Neosporin on it to help it heal. it's been 1 day since i have masturbated.

does it look serious?
how long will it take this to heal?
should i go see a doctor?
and what does it look like is going on? is it infected?


i was just worried about it turning yellow like that.
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it's healed now
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Glad you're feeling better. :)
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UPDATE: here's what it looked like on May 7th, when i first noticed something weird was going on: https://imgur.com/a/9rujFdw
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i was actually afraid that it could be herpes at first, but i don't think herpes starts out crusty like that
No, that isn't herpes. I don't know what that is, but that's too uniform and too scabby to be herpes.

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Have you ever had sex - like oral sex, vaginal or anal sex?

If you haven't, you don't need to worry about it being an STD.

Other things can be really dry skin, eczema, psoriasis, yeast or another fungal infection - it's a long list. Your best bet would be to let a doctor see it, maybe get it cultured and go from there.
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actually i have. just oral preformed on me. why? does it look like an std?
UPDATE: just came back from urgent care clinic. they didn't swab or culture the wound at all but the doctor told me that it's cellulitis and they put me on doxycycline for 10 days. they rushed me out pretty fast.
Wow, okay. Take your meds as directed, and I hope you feel better. :)
I've had cellulitis, and it took two rounds of antibiotics to make it go away. Take it seriously; if it isn't gone by about day 9, see the doctor again.
it's actually starting to heal up a bit now. i took 4 of the pills already. have 16 more left over the next 8 days. i hope it goes away fast.
That's good news. I think (if memory serves), cellulitis is an infection of the layer of skin below the top layer, meaning that once it gets in there, washing doesn't reach it. Mine was on my upper arm; it grew and got really red, and took two rounds of antibiotics to subdue. It sounds like you caught your problem earlier than I did.
mine never really turned red. it just started out brown and crusty and then got bigger and gross looking and yellow and crusty then a bit bloody
here's what it looks like now :( May 15th: https://imgur.com/a/sT7SgoG
im not sure if it's getting better or not.
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forgot to mention. it only hurts when i touch the affected area.
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