If recent study is anything to go by, man impotence is a bigger problem than was at first thought and in America for instance, erection problems affect 10% of males aged between 18 and 70 but worse still is the figure of over half of men in the 40 to 70 age range. From studies carried out into man impotency, in America alone anything from eighteen to thirty million males need many form of impotence treatment.
Where impotency interventions have been employed successfully they have shown improvements in the closeness between couples including sexual aspects and have helped with depression and aspects of everyday life. It is often thought that those who put up with premature ejaculation are suffering from erectile dysfunction and require impotence treatment but this is not necessarily true.
The majority of specialists in this field agree that impotence treatments should start with the least invasive methods first and only proceeding to interfering interventions if the others fail so that means reducing the use of any detrimental drugs first. Changes to conduct are looked at next and then mechanized vacuum devices, localised injections, penis implants and as a last recourse a procedure to correct the situation surgically.
Using the male’s partner, impotency treatment methods can be used that help relax and lower the man’s anxiety when he thinks about the problems he has with intercourse. Often the problem is a physical one and these methods are used to treat those with success as well.
Drugs when employed as an impotence treatment can be taken orally, injected directly into the penis, or introduced into the urethra at the top of the penis. After many trials, the wonder drug Viagra was given approval by the American FDA in March 1998, taken an hour before sex it was the first oral impotency treatment for males. While Viagra improves the response to sexual stimulus, it does not create an automatic erection as injected drugs do and should not be employed more than once a day. Some males have reduced levels of testosterone but this can be rectified with oral medicine although it is still not proved that the responses to this impotency intervention are not those that are provided by a placebo effect.
The impotence treatment which uses a drug injected into the penis creates the erection by filling up the penis with blood. Unfortunately, a continual erection and scarring are two unwanted consequence to this type of treatment. Pellets inserted into the penis via a pre-filled applicator are able to establish an erection in as little as ten minutes and can last up to sixty minutes.
Mechanical vacuum cylinders are used as an impotency intervention that pulls blood into the penis making it expand. Even So, to ensure the erection remains, an elastic band is positioned around the base of the penis to stop the blood flowing back into the body once the vacuum device has been withdrawn.
Medical research on impotency treatment is enlarging rapidly and patients should ask their physicians about the latest improvements. Prior to employing any form of drug or device for treating impotence, prescribed or not, it is worthwhile inquiring any potential side effects.
