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Men's Sexual Concerns
The problem of erectile
dysfunction or formerly called ‘impotency’
is a problem in which man can’t achieve erection
to mate with his partner or can’t hold the achieved
erection enough to complete the process of sex. It is
totally different from other problems or conditions
that affect the normal sexual intercourse such as lack
of sexual desire, various problems connected with ejaculation
and last but the vast “orgasm”. In this
article we will assess all the parts of erectile dysfunction.
This problem can occur at any age but it is most common
in the men past the age of 60.
The problem of erectile dysfunction or ED can be divided
into three different parts called complete inability
to achieve erection, inconsistency in achieving erection
or the third one called erection is achieved only for
the shorter period of time.
This variation makes defining ED a rather difficult
task. The next big challenge in curing this problem
is that because of social fear mostly sufferers are
often hesitant to discuss their sexual health problem
even with docs leaving this thing under diagnosed or
uncured forever. However it is estimated that this problem
had more than 35 million men in its claws in USA.
This problem is experienced in men’s
health in the in a very little quantity as early
as the age of 45. In this human body where everything
works under a predescribed sequence, erection also requires
a précised chain and the problem of ED occurs
when any part of this chain is interrupted. This chain
comprises of nerve function in the brain, proper movement
of spinal cord, sensitive areas around penis, the tissues,
veins and numerous arteries in and around corpora.
Any sort of damage to these nerves, arteries, and
tissues brings the result in the form of disease called
erectile dysfunction. Other common causes are diabetes,
problems connected to kidneys, addiction towards alcohol
or drugs, spinal cord injury and any problem relating
vascular or neurological structure.
Any abnormality related to hormones such as not having
enough testosterone also becomes one of the many causes
of degrading this part of men’s health. In addition
to this many medicines of daily use also brings erectile
dysfunction as a side effect. Among these are, the drugs
used to normalize blood pressure, anti depressants,
tranquilizers, anti obesity and diet pills.
According to the experts in this field, some psychological
problems such as stress, anxiety during sex, feeling
of guilt of not soothing his partner’s sexual
desire, low self esteem and biggest of them fear of
sexual
failure causes more than 20 percent of cases of
male impotency. In many cases ED is the result of physical
or emotional problem that needs to be treated
Basically, the treatment is started with a round of
some quizzing about your physical, mental and emotional
health followed by some tests of blood and urine to
determine the severity of the disease. Generally many
tests are advised but the doc determines which tests
are necessary for different cases.
In the majority of cases the treatment of erectile
dysfunction mainly depends of the factors that are causing
this problem of male impotency. It is advised that treatment
should be initialized from the least and proceeds to
the most intensive. In most of the cases making some
small changes in lifestyle solved this problem. Giving
up smoking, losing unwanted weight, and increase in
their physical activities helped them regain the most
requires sexual function.
Reducing the intake of drug that brings ED as the
side effect can be considered if it is found as the
reason for ED. After this, techniques based psychological
treatment is tested. These techniques decrease the anxiety
related with intercourse.
Patient’s partner is also made to work helping
the patients with some practice such as increased intimacy
and seduction followed by some stimulation given by
hand. Such procedures can prove handy when cases of
ED caused by emotional cause are being treated. When
all these do not produce the expected result drugs and
medicines comes into action.
Three types of methods are used to use these drugs.
Either they are taken orally or injected to the penis
or inserted directly into the penis through its tip.
In early 1998 FDA approved first medicine for oral intake
for the treatment of male impotency. Since than many
pills for this disease have been approved after various
tests for safety and efficiency. These pills come in
the class of drugs called phosphodiestrase. When taken
these drugs work by enhancing the effect of nitric oxide
resulting in the increase in blood flow. Although these
medicines improve sexual stimulation but the do not
shot automatic erections as injections do. These drugs
are recommended under high-class medical supervision
for those using drugs to some other health problem.
It is strictly advised that none of these drugs should
be used more than once in a day.
Many research committees have been working on the
program to understand the reasons of erectile dysfunction
and finding out its natural treatment. These researches
have made men more open minded towards this problem
resulting the increased the number of patients seeking
treatment to this problem. Doctors all around the globe
have been working on gene therapy for the treatment
of ED and it is a bright hope that in coming years it
will offer an ever lasting and permanent therapeutic
treatment for erectile dysfunction.
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