Slate advice podcast How to Do It signed ‘Coming Up Short’. A thirty-year-old heterosexual (don’t know if that is a determining factor) complained that after he got out of hospital after contracting COVID in July last year he suffered some erectile dysfunction, which got better with medical attention.Unfortunately, he was left with a lasting problem.“My penis has shrunk.
Before I got sick, I was above average. Not huge, but definitely bigger, than normal. Now I’ve lost about an inch and a half and become decidedly less than average.
It’s apparently due to vascular damage, and my doctors seem to think it’s likely permanent,” he said.Director of Men’s Health at Albany Medical College, Dr Charles Welliver told the podcast, COVID Dick is indeed a thing.
He said COVID sometimes led to significant vascular issues in men. He said that could go two ways. Some guys ended up with priapism, a prolonged erection.
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