PICTURED: My penis turned into an unusable blob after cosmetic mistake

A man's penis swelled to 5 times its mean size and became an unusable 'blob' aft years of silicone injections.

The unnamed individual, from confederate California, near Los Angeles, was near incapable to get erections, usage the restroom decently oregon person sex.

His penis was stone hard and helium had a citrus and lime-sized lump signifier astatine the basal of his scrotum that were abstracted from his testicles.

The swelling and scar insubstantial were caused by silicone injections into his penis done implicit the past 17 years to boost its size and his confidence.

The FDA warns against these injections, saying they tin origin swelling, scarring, imperishable disfigurement and adjacent decease if the silicone moves into the bloodstream.

But patients tin inactive get them connected the achromatic marketplace oregon successful countries wherever clinics are little well-regulated.

Plastic surgeons told DailyMail.com they were seeing an uptick successful patients coming to them with complications from silicone injections successful caller years, arsenic they urged everyone to beryllium alert of what is being injected into their bodies.

Silicone is simply a gel-like worldly typically utilized successful bosom implants due to the fact that it mimics the consciousness and look of a earthy breast.

If it is injected, however, the silicone tin beryllium attacked by the body's immune system, starring to inflammation and the build-up of hard fibrous insubstantial astir the substance.

In superior cases, the silicone tin besides determination into the humor watercourse wherever it whitethorn origin an embolism, oregon humor vas blockage, changeable oregon death.

The FDA says superior complications tin hap immediately, weeks, months oregon adjacent years aft the injections. They urge anyone who has had a silicone injection gets the merchandise rapidly removed.

In this case, revealed by Dr Timothy Katzen — a integrative surgeon successful Beverly Hills, Los Angeles — the patient, present successful his 60s, received the injections successful Tijuana, Mexico.

He had injections into the shaft of his penis and the scrotum, oregon country containing the testicles, to springiness them a much pronounced and larger shape.

At the time, the diligent said helium knew others who had the injections — including men who had died aft injecting themselves with silicone astatine home.

He was initially thrilled with the results, but implicit the past fewer years had been near struggling by infections, symptom and discomfort sleeping oregon having sex. 

He was inactive capable to urinate and ejaculate without issue, adjacent aft his penis swelled up.

Revealing the surgery, the diligent — who worked successful the big amusement manufacture — said: 'I americium conscionable implicit this.

'It was amusive erstwhile it archetypal started, [but] it seems similar I person conscionable been trying to drawback up and trying to marque it look a small amended with each injection, and it conscionable hasn't worked, it's go a blob.

'It's go painful, uncomfortable to sleep, uncomfortable to person sex, and the infections the past mates of years... it's conscionable time.'

In the hours-long surgery, Dr Katzen chopped unfastened the caput and shaft of his penis earlier cutting done the scar insubstantial that was 'like marble' and removing the scar insubstantial and the silicone.

After the surgery, the diligent was capable to person enactment and summation erections again helium told doctors. He was blessed with the results.

Warning implicit the risks, Dr Katzen said helium is present consulting with astir 1,000 patients each twelvemonth who had complications from silicone injections — and operated connected 200 annually.

For comparison, astir 5 years agone helium said they were consulting for conscionable respective 100 patients.

The uptick whitethorn person been caused by increasing consciousness of his practice, helium said, oregon beryllium from injections done years agone due to the fact that these tin instrumentality years to origin an effect.

But helium besides said galore of his patients were getting the injections astatine events specified arsenic 'pump parties', wherever an injector whitethorn circulate and past inject radical with silicone astatine random.

He besides said that successful immoderate cases patients person to motion a ineligible papers earlier going to a silicone injector, oregon request to beryllium referred by a person to get the injection.

Warning implicit the risks, Dr Katzen told DailyMail.com: 'People privation bigger butts and penises, radical privation different assemblage parts augmented.

'So they inquire their friend, and their person says, "Oh, I got it done by this person".

'And they virtually instrumentality silicone successful a edifice country and inject their buttock oregon their look oregon their breast, and past horrible things happen. It gets injected, it moves around. It's conscionable a horrible thing.'

He added: 'And we person patients from England, We person patients from Ireland, Scotland, each over, who coem ehre to get it removed.'