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How is impotence treated?
For all of us love is something special and it makes us really happy if we find it even for a short while.
It’s a pity when low male performance puts a strain on romantic relations. Worse still if people get parted
merely because of this point since impotence is a treatable problem and not an inevitable result of aging.
Surprisingly, but less than 5% of men with impotence - erectile dysfunction - have ever been treated.
Why?
Part of men think that is too embarrassing to discuss such an intimate problem with another person, even that person is a doctor.
Young and middle-aged people have fear to cancell their male image. Older people think is just natural.
Part of men are uninformed, they really don't know that their condition could be improved.
Fortunately, nowadays there are many ways to treat impotence. Treatments for impotence vary a lot and depend on the cause.
1. Treatment of impotence with psychological/emotional causes.
Only about 10% of impotence cases have a psychological or emotional cause. Many cases with a physical cause also
involve psychological issues. Men with impotence can feel anxious, guilty, or depressed. This anxiety can often make
the impotence worse.
The American Medical Association estimates that doctors can effectively treat 95% of such impotence cases
with one of the following treatments:
- Psychotherapy/counselling: The key of treatment is communication. Communication with
your partner, your doctor with yourself. This treatment is mainly for use where the main cause is guilt, anxiety or a hang-up.
Sometime just close examination of your sexual partnership could improve the situation
- Lifestyle advice: this is mainly of help when the problem is related to stress, tiredness, abuse
of alcohol, nicotine or using of non-prescribed drugs.
2. Treatment of impotence with physical causes.
A. Drug therapy.
- Alteration of medication: This kind of treatment is useful when the impotence is caused by side effects of pills
that are being taken for high blood pressure or other disorders.
- Specific medication: The most common drug in use is Viagra. Cialis and Levitra is a good solution too.
- Injection therapy: The medication is self injected into the side of penis to make the blood vessels
widen. Blood flow increases in "dilated" vessels creating an erection.
- Urethral suppository: A a soft pellet of medication is inserted into urethra. After medication adsorbtion the blood
flow increases, creating an erection.
B. Mechanical devices.
- Pubic ring: A rubber or bakelite ring is put around the base of the penis to maintain blood in the
penis and keep it firm. This method is claimed to help men who can't sustain an erection for very long.
- Vacuum erection device: AS tight-fitting cylinder, in which low pressure can be created by pumping the air out,
is placed over the penis. The vacuum draws blood to his penis. This makes it erect. Then a pubic ring is placed.
C. Surgery.
- Microsurgery: Blood vessels can be redirected through microsurgery but this is often very expensive.
- Penile implants: In the case of nerve damage the penis can have a small air or fluid bladder
surgically implanted inside to be filled via an external valve. The device transfers air or fluid to the penis
when an erection is desired
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