# Bent Spike syndrome

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-spike-syndrome/54054>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [February 11, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-spike-syndrome/54054 "2001-02-11T19:50:20Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Catenary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@Catenary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catenary)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-spike-syndrome/54054/1 "2001-02-11T19:50:20Z")

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Has anyone had symtoms of this cursed problem spontaneously disappear? For those that don’t know what this is (Peyronies ), the subject says it all.

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**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2001, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-spike-syndrome/54054/2 "2001-02-11T22:23:08Z")

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Gee, thanks for giving me something else to look forward to as I creep slowly towards middle age. “Pie-ROE-nees” kinda sounds like the next Taco Bell catch phrase.

Several links I found indicate that the course of the condition varies widely from one man to the next, so it’s really hard (har!) to say how common a remission is.

From the [National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases](http://www.niddk.nih.gov/health/urolog/pubs/peyronie/peyronie.htm):

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> While trauma might explain acute cases of Peyronie’s disease, it does not explain why most cases develop slowly and with no apparent traumatic event. It also does not explain why **some cases disappear quickly** , and why similar conditions such as Dupuytren’s contracture do not seem to result from severe trauma.

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> Because the course of Peyronie’s disease is different in each patient and because **some patients experience improvement without treatment** , medical experts suggest waiting 1 to 2 years or longer before attempting  
> to correct it surgically.

_(Bolding mine)_

Talk with your doctor, and try not to get bent out of shape.

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**Author:** ![gardoglee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/94ad74/32.png) [@gardoglee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardoglee)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2014, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bent-spike-syndrome/54054/3 "2014-12-02T07:03:41Z")

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I developed pyronies during my early twenties (unusual, but not rare). I was given various pharmaceuticals, which basically did nothing to help. Eventually I gave up, and accepted I would have the problem for life. Then over a period of about ten years the fibroid mass that was causing the bend spread the rest of the way around my penis. This left me “straight”, and about an inch shorter. I was happy to accept the loss of an inch in length to lose the 80 degree bend.