The prostate gland is located just below the bladder and is surrounded by nerves and blood vessels. These nerves and blood vessels are needed to achieve a normal erection. Much research has been done to understand where these nerves are located and how to prevent them from getting damaged during surgery or other treatments.
Roughly 30 million men in the United States have problems achieving or maintaining an erection. The frequency of ED increases with age, affecting only 5-40% of men in their 40’s and up to 50-80% of men over 70 years. However, while the risk of ED increases with age, the condition is not an inevitable consequence of aging. Good health is the key to a lifetime of good sexual function.
.
Vardenafil is effective in men of all ages, different nationalities, and in men with such medical conditions as diabetes mellitus and erectile dysfunction after prostate surgery.
Don’t hold your breathDon’t push down — instead, squeeze your pelvic muscles together tightly as if you are trying to lift something up with those musclesTry to keep your stomach muscles relaxed throughoutRelax your pelvic floor muscles between each squeeze
Dr Aifric Boylan2021-10-19T12:37:09+11:00August 19th, 2018|Categories: Women's Health, Contraception & Family Planning, Contraception, Birth control, IUD| Considering a hormonal IUD? common questions doctors get asked What is a hormonal IUD? A hormonal IUD is a small device that is inserted into the uterus (womb) by a trained doctor or [...]
Vacuum devices for ED, also called pumps, offer an alternative to medication. You’ll place your penis inside a cylinder and use a pump to draw the air out. This creates a partial vacuum around your penis, which causes it to fill with blood and leads to an erection. You’ll wear an elastic band around the base of your penis to keep the erection while you have sex.
So, what are the options for a man with ED? Well, there are a few. Usually the first option we (urologists and primary care doctors) will try are medications like Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, etc. All those medications function by bringing more blood flow to the penis. They are all pretty similar in their action, and if one of them works for you, chances are the others will, too. Some men will experience side effects, most common being facial flushing.
Stem cell transplant (also called bone marrow transplant) involves getting very high doses of chemotherapy drugs. One complication of a transplant is graft-versus-host disease. Men who have had graft-versus-host disease are more likely to have a long-lasting loss of testosterone. In some cases, these men may need testosterone replacement therapy to regain sexual desire and erections.
But the main risk for having ED is age. Yes, unfortunately, the older you are, the more likely you are to have ED. You cannot be 67 and have a 21-year-old penis.
Alprostadil, available as an injection or a suppository, is a drug that makes the blood vessels expand. That boosts blood flow throughout the body, including the penis, so it helps men with ED have an erection.
Since the release of NO is dependent on sexual stimulation/arousal, PDE5 inhibitors only work if there is sexual stimulation. Simply taking the pill will not produce an erection. This is important because this is different than other treatments for erectile dysfunction.
“There are many lifestyle changes that are erectile dysfunction remedies, but among them, exercise is the ED treatment that can have the greatest impact,” says Zachary R. Mucher, MD, a urologist in Sugar Land, Texas. “Exercise works on several fronts to combat the development of ED and help reverse it once it has become a problem.”
Dr. Natalya Lopushnyan treats many patients suffering from erectile dysfunction. Below is an article she wrote describing erectile dysfunction treatment options.
Some men will have issues with erections (erectile dysfunction or ED) within a few years of external beam radiation for prostate cancer. Some of these men may have erections that allow penetration, but only a small portion report their erections are as good as they were before treatment.
The major breakthrough occurred in 1998 when sildenafil became the first oral drug to be approved to treat ED.4 This was followed by the use of tadalafil and vardenafil as similar phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitor oral medications for treating ED in 2003.4
Your partner may suffer without saying much, so it is very important that you openly discuss the best way to cope with this condition.
The pulsating waves of GAINSWave improves blood flow to the penis by dissolving plaque build-up and stimulating the growth of new blood vessels. The improvement results in stronger, harder, and more sustainable erections.