What are some common misconceptions about erectile dysfunction (ED)?

When it comes to “not working”, many men or women will first determine whether there is a problem with sexual function. Some people, due to a lack of sexual knowledge, have difficulty making an accurate analysis, so that the common more normal situation is mistaken for a big problem. All day long, fearful, scare themselves, the ultimate result of the evil is really caused by erection problems. In the clinical work, often meet patients about ED questions, I put some common misconceptions are summarized below. (1) A failure of intercourse is ED. Some men are anxious and nervous about having sex for the first time due to lack of experience, which can easily cause poor erection. If there is not enough understanding of this, it is likely to have doubts about their own sexuality, and thus in the future sex life, there will be the above-mentioned problems. This makes men enter a vicious circle: the more they worry the more they can’t get hard, the more they can’t get hard the more they worry. In fact, the man’s life, inevitably because of mood, work, environment, overwork, physical health, husband and wife feelings and other factors, in the sexual life of one or several poor performance, especially newlyweds or premarital cohabitants, the chances of encountering this embarrassment is higher. Therefore, the newcomer has one or two failed sexual intercourse, is not a big deal. If you set your mind right, build confidence, learn about sex, and make appropriate adjustments in the future life of the couple, you can revive the “masculinity”. (2) the woman did not orgasm is ED. Some patients come to the clinic, said “I am impotent”, a detailed inquiry, it is in the same room, the woman did not reach orgasm and suspect the man “sick”. In fact, the sexual response process of men and women is different, one of the main differences is that “men are fast and women are slow”. Therefore, if the man in the case of normal hardness has ejaculated, and the woman has not yet entered the orgasm, which has nothing to do with ED. What is needed is to go to the hospital for advice, to learn about sex and sex skills, rather than first buckle a hat of ED, making the man worried all day, the woman cynical. (3) masturbation, seminal emission is bound to cause ED. The ancient Chinese concept of sex has “a drop of semen ten drops of blood”, that “the discharge of semen will lose vitality”. Many masturbating men believe that masturbation is bound to cause ED, which feels guilty and ashamed, and even a psychological burden. In fact, this concern is completely superfluous. It can be clear that masturbation is unmarried men, divorced and widowed men, men living apart from their partners often have sexual behavior, is very natural sexual lifestyle, and the occurrence of ED is not directly related, not necessarily linked. But if you have been worried that masturbation will induce ED, then eventually ED may really happen. this is actually related to your abnormal sexual psychological activities, because long-term masturbators often have excessive anxiety, guilt, depression, restlessness and other negative emotions, these negative thinking activities will prevent the normal performance of sexual function. This is also true of seminal emission. It is completely normal for healthy unmarried men to have seminal emission two or three times a month, more than this frequency can be relieved by appropriate treatment. (4) the morning erection is reduced or disappeared is ED. Some patients find themselves in the morning, the penis will quickly erect and very hard (morning erection), but now much worse, so think they have ED. indeed, the morning erection can show the status of sexual function to a certain extent, can be used as a reference indicator of whether the sexual function is normal. The actual fact is that this kind of erection condition is not regular, with a person’s physique, thoughts, emotions, external environment and other changes, sometimes good and bad, there is no “normal” standard, can not be used as an indicator of ED. In fact, men in the disease or fatigue during the morning erection phenomenon may disappear, and in good health that will recover on its own. (5) take Western medicine side effects, eat addictive. Many patients come to see the doctor, first told the doctor “better not give me a prescription for Western medicine, because those drugs have a lot of side effects, but also addictive”. In fact, this is the biggest misconception about ED! The current Western medicine mainly refers to PDE5 inhibitors. According to the principle of drug action of PDE5 inhibitors, such drugs do not promote sexual desire or make people become aroused, not addictive, the underlying cause of the patient and the severity of the disease is the main factor in determining whether it needs to take long-term medication and the amount of medication. As for the side effects, they basically do not cause long-term chronic damage to the human body, but rather the damage to the human body from various “health products” may be greater. Of course, such drugs must be applied under the guidance of a doctor and not taken casually. In addition, some patients will be erectile dysfunction as an inevitable natural phenomenon of aging and do not pay attention to, there are some patients who believe that the ED can not be cured. This is a misunderstanding of ED, need to be decisively abandoned. In fact, after suffering from erectile dysfunction do not have to panic, to go to a regular hospital in a timely manner, and actively cooperate with the doctor’s treatment, so as to facilitate the early recovery of the disease.