Instead, a vascular radiologist often inserts a catheter into the artery and injects a blood clot to stop the bleeding. When the clot dissolves, the hole has healed. If the urethra has been fractured, surgery may be required to divert the urine from pooling in the penis, according to Dr. Blank. Check your medicines. Drugs also cause extended erections by interfering with normal blood flow, Dr. Goldstein says.
Some antidepressants are common offenders, as are some drugs for head and back injuries.
Improper use of drugs to help men achieve erections can also cause a painfully prolonged erection. Out P eyronie's may be painful, but it's not always necessary to operate to take the kink out of the erection, doctors say. Wait it out. In about half the cases, the pain, if not the curvature, goes away in a year or two. If it interferes with sex or if there's a lot of pain, then it's something we look at.