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ED no Cause for Shame
Erectile dysfunction or ED is the one
of the most common problems of men’s sexual health
and the most common form of male impotency. Throughout
the world ED affects the sexual lives of many men of
every age group and their partners in the one way or
another. This disease usually covers many disorders
but commonly ED is referred as the inability to obtain
an enough erection for an absolutely fulfilled sexual
activity. This should be noticed that the word ‘impotency’
could also be used to describe other sexual problems
related with lack of sexual desire, ejaculation and
orgasm. The word ED clears the fact that other problems
are not concerned with erectile
dysfunction.
Erectile dysfunction or ED varies in severity. It can
be of three types. They are, the total failure to achieve
erection, inconsistency in the ability to get erection
or a habit or tendency to sustain erection for the very
shorter period of time. This discrepancy makes defining
and estimating ED a rather tougher task. The bigger
problem is that mostly suffering men are often very
hesitant in discussing this problem. So this problem
usually remains undiscovered. While ED can occur at
any age but, naturally it is uncommon among the youngsters
and more frequent in the elderly people. Only some sort
of physical injury can make any young man suffer from
this problem. By the age of 45 this problem starts developing
as a very negligible part of sexual
life. Studies conducted in USA showed that only
5 percent of men of the age of 40 were experiencing
natural ED. The penis contains two hollow pipe like
and spongy structures that goes along with the tube
that carries urine and semen out of the body. When a
man gets sexually aroused the signals from brain causes
more blood to flow through these pipe like structures
causing them to expand as much as seven times of their
normal size. This increase in blood flow produces erection
by straightening and stiffening the penis. When this
sexual arousal is finished the blood is drained out
of these spongy muscles and the penis regains its normal
non- erected size and shape. Sexual arousal, response
of nervous system and the response of blood vessels
are the three components that work in a very delicate
collaboration with each other to produce and sustain
erection. If the work of any of these components is
disturbed by any external or internal threat it can
disturb man’s health and cause erectile dysfunction.
Many physical problems can cause ED, such as, diabetic
neuropathy, any cardiovascular disease, surgery of prostate
cancer, injury to spinal cord and hormonal disorders
such as low testosterone count. Sexual health of the
men with addiction of excessive smoking, alcohol and
other drug abuse also suffers from ED. Some psychological
issues like stress, anxiety, depression, guilt of not
completing the expectations of his partner, low self
esteem and fear of sexual failure also contributes as
much as 20 percent to the reasons of erectile dysfunction.
The condition worsens when both physical and non-physical
factors combine to cause ED. For example a small physical
problem that delays erection may cause anxiety and doubts
in man’s mind about achieving an erection. This
anxiety further degrades the condition of ED. Generally
it is noticed that a man suffering from ED, caused by
any physical factor also suffers from these psychological
factors. In a one line it can be said that erectile
dysfunction is a sign of any physical or psychological
problem that needs immediate treatment.
In the current era, where so much research had been
conducted to find out the treatment for every thing,
medication of ED was also given special attention. The
treatment for erectile dysfunction has a wide variety
of options that includes everything from medication
to use of mechanical devices to surgery and psycho counseling.
Before deciding the best treatment or the pair of treatment,
the physician had to examine the exact cause and the
severity of your erectile dysfunction. In some cases
the treatment also depends on the man’s willingness
to spend money and also on the preference of you and
your partner. Oral medication for ED includes drugs
like Viagra, Cialis
and Levitra. The first to come in market was viagra.
It was approved by FDA in 1998 and was launched in the
very same year becoming the first FDA approved medicine
for the treatment of ED. Since then, cialis and levitra
have also been approved, which provided more choices
in oral medication. These pills share many thing but
they also have many dissimilarities. They vary in doses,
effectiveness, power and side effects. Needle injection
therapy and muse also comes as the treatment of ED.
In NIP a very fine needle is used to inject alprostadil
(Caverject, Edex) into the base of the penis. It produces
erection in about five to twenty minutes, which can
last up to 1 hour. It has proved handy because injection
goes directly to the spongy tubes and because very fine
needle is used pain is also minor. But side effect like
bleeding from penis can also occur. Prolonged erection
is the most common side effect. MUSE or Medicated Urethral
System for Erection is used to insert a small suppository
into the tip of penis. It helps to increase the blood
flow, which causes erection. It is a painful therapy
in which side effects like pain, minor bleeding from
urethra can occur. The next treatment uses vacuum devices.
This is done by putting a plastic tube around the penis
and then pumping to create a vacuum in that tube. Once
erection has occurred a ring is placed around the base
of the penis to maintain it. This ring is removed after
sex is over. The treatment of surgery is for those who
are suffering from ED caused by some physical damage
to penis or pelvis area. Psycho counseling is advised
to the cases where stress, anxiety or any sort of psychological
factor is responsible for ED.
Erectile
dysfunction was once considered a very rare and
a taboo subject but now that more and more people are
coming out to see treatment it has no longer remained
the same. Because of this, doctors are getting help
in researching about the causes of ED and are finding
new and better treatments.
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