Many men worry about their heart condition and take precautions to prevent heart disease. Few knows that anything that’s bad for your heart is also bad for your sexual health. Men who drink excessively in the decades prior or who abuse drugs can develop heart condition as well as ED. If you smoke, you’re also [...]
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Stress, anxiety, guilt, depression can cause ED
Although medication can cause ED, psychological factors such as stress, anxiety, guilt, depression, low self-esteem, and fear of sexual failure can also cause ED. Even when ED has a physical cause, psychological factors may make the condition worse. Hormonal abnormalities, such as low levels of testosterone, are a less frequent cause of ED. Many men [...]
What are exactly erection problems?
Erection * problems can be a difficult topic to discuss, but if you have problems getting or keeping an erection, you have good reasons to talk with a doctor: Erection problems not only interfere with your sex life, they can be a sign of other health problems. Erection problems can be a sign of blocked blood vessels [...]
Erectile dysfunction isn’t exactly the same as impotence
Erectile dysfunction sometimes is also called “impotence”. The symptom is the repeated inability to get or keep an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse. Although ED is often known as impotence by many people, there’s a slight difference. The word “impotence” may also be used to describe other problems that interfere with sexual intercourse and [...]
ED usually has a physical cause in elder men
Although ED can happen to men at any age, in older men, ED usually has a physical cause, such as disease, injury, or side effects of drugs. Any disorder that causes injury to the nerves or impairs blood flow in the penis has the potential to cause ED. So even younger men can suffer ED [...]
How many men are affected by ED?
ED affects 15 to 30 million American men. ED stands for erectile dysfunction which is the repeated inability to get or keep an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse for men. In most cases, ED has a physical cause. Although it can also be caused by psychological problems. The good news is, and you probably [...]
Does surgery help with Erectile Dysfunction?
Many experts choose ED treatments proceed from least to most invasive. Surgery, of course is the most invasive procedure. If everything else fails, your doctor might recommend surgery. Erectile surgery usually has one of three goals: to implant a device that can cause the penis to become erect; to reconstruct arteries to increase flow of [...]
Psychological factors such as stress and anxiety can cause ED
There are many health issues that can cause erectile dysfunction, but many experts believe that psychological factors such as stress, anxiety, guilt, depression, low self-esteem, and fear of sexual failure cause 10 to 20 percent of all ED cases. Even men with a physical cause for ED frequently experience the same sort of psychological reactions [...]
ED usually has a physical cause in older men
In older men, ED usually has a physical cause, such as disease, injury, or side effects of drugs. Health problems that can cause injury to the nerves or impairs blood flow in the penis can cause ED. The older the men get, the higher the erectile dysfunction incidence. For 40 year old men, the chance [...]
Impotence is a little different from erectile dysfunction
Many people use impotence to refer to erectile dysfunction, in fact, these two terms are quite different. ED is the repeated inability to get or keep an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse. However, impotence may also be used to describe other problems that interfere with sexual intercourse and reproduction, such as lack of sexual [...]