The US Covid patient has spoken of his ordeal since recovering from the virus. He says it left him with vascular damage that led to erectile dysfunction (ED), impacting the length of his penis.
While his ED “gradually got better” following treatment, it turned out the new size of his penis could be permanent.
He said: “I seem to be left with a lasting problem.”
The victim, who describes himself as “a heterosexual man in my thirties”, contracted COVID-19 in July last year. He said the situation has affected his self-confidence.
Speaking on sex advice podcast How To Do It, he claimed: “My penis has shrunk.
“Before I got sick, I was above average, not huge, but definitely bigger than normal.”
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He added: “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.
“It shouldn’t really matter, but it has had a profound impact on my self-confidence in my abilities in bed.”
A study published in The Lancet medical journal last year looked at more than 3,700 people with confirmed or suspected long-term Covid with illness lasting over 28 days.
It found more than 200 potential symptoms from several different areas of the body – including reports of “decrease in size of testicles/penis”.
These, however, were registered in less than 10 percent of respondents.
Another study, published in May 2021 in The World Journal of Men’s Health, found evidence of the virus in the human penis long after the initial infection and suggested the impact of Covid on the penis’s blood flow could result in ED.
Dr Charles Welliver, a urologist and Director of Men’s Health at Albany Medical College in New York, confirmed to listeners COVID-19 can indeed cause ED and, in some cases, when ED persists over time, a shrinking of the penis.
He said: “You can connect these dots… There are pretty significant vascular issues that occur with guys.
“Studies have actually shown that guys can get priapism — the prolonged erection that is dangerous in its own right — and guys can also get ED from Covid, so it can kind of go both directions.
“When guys get ED, they get a lack of erections for a while, and when that happens they actually do get some shrinkage.”
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He added: “Probably every guy that has significant ED… probably gets some shrinkage.
“We see that particularly in guys after they have their prostate out for cancer and have zero erection for 6 to 12 weeks. They all get shrinkage.”
Dr Welliver stressed it remains unknown exactly how widespread the issue is as asymptomatic cases make it difficult to calculate a precise enough number of males who have suffered from Covid.
Urologist Ashley Winter MD said: “Covid d*** is a real thing.
“It is true that having erectile dysfunction leads to shortening.
“You have this period of time where the penis is not stretching itself out, where it’s not, you know, getting all this full blood into it, and that can lead to scarring of the penis and shortening of the penis.”
Dr Welliver and Dr Winter both insisted rehabilitative practices involving medication, stretching and vacuum devices might restore the penis’s lost length over time.