Ok, now that I have your attention, this is how I accidentally did it:
I had to put my cat in her carrier for a vet visit. She scratched the hell out of me, wrists, forearms … I didn’t use gloves or a towel, stupid me. Anyway, about 48 hours later, my penis had swelled to about twice its flaccid girth, but didn’t hurt at all. My wife called an emergency room, who advised that I be seen ASAP. I never went, because I’m scared of anything like that unless I’m in major pain, and within maybe another 48 hours, I was back to my original size. Well, not me, my penis.
Can anyone tell me what happened? The ER wouldn’t diagnose over the phone, and I don’t blame them. Thanks in advance.
I think this OP is better suited for another forum, I went ahead and reported it.
In other news, with the assumption that the OP will be moved to another forum… My roommate at the time once brought home a couple kittens. He was gone, so I figured it was as good of a time as any to have a bit of alone time. The kittens wanted to play, too. It didn’t end well!
But, brownsfan, you mention the cat scratched your wrists and forearm, and your penis swelled up? Did it turn you on that much, or is there more to the story you’re not telling? ???
Did any of the rest of you swell up? Like, say, hives around the site of the scratches? I’m speculating along the lines of some kind of allergic reaction/histamine response.
But hell, what do I know? My penis has been the same size for years.
Sorry you were offended, but that’s exactly how it happened. I was thinking along the lines of some blood-borne virus or something, hell I don’t know, IANAD. Did I mention I didn’t go to the ER?
Thanks for reporting me for asking a legitimate question. I had no idea it was a crime to fight ignorance.
Yeah, there were hives around the scratches, and I always get them when scratched by my cats (we play rough). I didn’t even notice it till I went to take a whiz. Then it was like, OMG!
Sorry if I came across as being offended, that was not my intention at all, nor was I in any way offended. Reporting a post simply flags a mod to check it out, it’s not like getting sent to the principals office. I just thought, based on the thread title, that you weren’t really expecting a factual answer. In another forum, we could have more fun with it. Welcome to the boards, hope you stick around.
The first thing we’d need to know to answer your question is the nature of the enlargement.
If the enlargement was similar to a partial erection, then you had a mild form of priapism. Speculation around why and how this might relate to the cat injuries/exposure would be interesting, but…
If the enlargement was more like the kind of swelling you might see in an eyelid that gets a bad allergic reaction–that puffy, soft spongy kind of swelling–then you had penis enlargement from fluid in the extracellular spaces. Causes of this type of swelling include capillary leakage from injury at the cellular level (an allergic reaction, say) or obstructed lymphatic drainage from a mechanical event or the like.
The former mechanism is a bit of an emergency if you get a sustained and very firm erection; the latter mechanism is benign, on average unless whatever is doing the obstructing (in the case of a mechanical obstruction) is not resolved. I’ve seen a penis swell to several inches across from mechanical obstruction (a male chastity device gone horribly awry) and resolve to completely normal. On the other hand a sustained priapism can ruin the venous mechanism which underlies erections, leading to impotence.
Well, cat scratch fever (or CSD, Cat Scratch Disease) is a real bacterial infection, transmitted by bites, scratches or sometimes just contact with membranes like your eyes. A swollen penis isn’t one of the usual symptoms, though.
Welcome to the boards, hope you stick around.
