Sexual Side Effects - It's Your Lifestyle
An erection is a marvel of engineering. As in any modern factory, damage to any aspect of the complex mechanism can cause the entire system to break down. Impotence can result from a single factor or have multiple causes. Stress, anxiety, and depression are all common triggers for impotence. While excitement and arousal are necessary for erections to occur, an extreme excess of either can overload the circuits and cause shutdown. Under psychological siege, your body shifts into combat mode, pumping extra adrenaline that directs blood flow away from the penis into core organs. Unfortunately, this crucial survival mechanism can kick in and cause problems with your erection. It’s common for men to experience a loss of erections when they are worried about finances, relationships, or troubles at work.
Depending on the type of therapy used, as many as 50-60 percent of men will suffer from at least short-term impotence. Fear of impotence is not a sound reason to avoid consulting your physician and discussing the options for impotence treatment. Here’s a brief look at helpful impotence treatments available to discuss with your physician. Urologists differ in the types of treatments they recommend for impotence, but many opt for non-surgical treatment.
- Injections-The injection of a prescription medication designed to treat impotence is injected using a fine needle directly in the base of the penis. It is important that both patient and doctor work closely together to find the exact dose that produces an erection. The initial injection is given by the doctor, after that, the patient self-injects himself at home, at appropriate time.
- The vacuum device has been around for years, dating back to the 1930’s. The flaccid penis is put into a cylinder, and the air is pumped out of the cylinder, generally causing an erection. A constricting band is put around the base of the penis to trap the blood in the penis, keeping the penis hard. This may not be the most appealing of techniques.
- For the past ten to twelve years some physicians have been using implants to help men with impotence. The devices are like long, thin tubes, which are surgically implanted into the spongy part of the penis, on the under side, on each side of the urethral tube.
For those with impotence, a wide array of effective treatments is now available; more than at any previous time in history. Instead of having to deal with any of the above procedures or take a medication that will certainly have side effects. If you suspect impotence may be related to a prescription drug you are taking, discuss this with your physician. Impotence prevention is about changing your lifestyle instead of having to deal with medication or surgery.
- Eat a healthy, well balanced diet.
- Avoid alcohol, particularly before sexual encounters.
- Limit animal fats, sugar, fried foods, and junk or processed foods.
- Do not smoke.
- Avoid Stress.
