| 'I
Feel I'm in my Twenties Again'
August 08, 2003
Ray Reynolds discovered that
his erectile dysfunction was an early warning
sign of heart disease. He talks to Christine
Doyle
Ray Reynolds is a happy man.
After 10 years during which his sexual performance
dwindled to "nothing", he now takes
Cialis,
one of the latest anti-impotence drugs. He is
59 and had put his lacklustre performance down
to age. "I did not discuss it with anyone
- men don't - not even with my doctor. But I
was depressed and angry. A great pleasure had
gone from my life."
Young again: Ray Reynolds
Cialis has transformed him, he
says. "I feel I am back to the youthful
vigour of my twenties."
It took a heart attack and an
operation to insert two stents into his coronary
arteries before he realised that
erectile dysfunction could be a sign of heart
trouble. "I read about it in a leaflet
from St Thomas' Hospital and asked for a referral
to Emma Martin, the sister who runs a sexual
advice clinic for men with cardiovascular problems.
"She was wonderful. I take
the new drug a few hours before I need to and
the effect lasts for at least two days. I only
wish I had known early on that my trouble could
be an early warning sign of heart disease. I
might have been able to prevent the coronary
through diet and drugs."
He tells men who confide in him
with similar trouble to ask their GPs for an
assessment of their risk of heart disease or
other possible causes of erectile decline.
source:-http://www.telegraph.co.uk
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