Treating Long-term Peyronie’s Disease

Q. I read your article on Peyronie’s disease, in which you discuss treating the plaque by injecting it with medication. Do these treatments make sense when the trauma took place 13 years ago? I was 11 at the time. Or is it too late now for me to be treated?

A. Peyronie’s disease is scarring along the shaft of the penis. The scarring is a result of trauma to the penis. In most instances, the trauma may have occurred as much as 20 years earlier. In fact, most men can’t remember the event.