Erectile dysfunction is considered to exist when the penis is erect but not long erected, and general measures, medication, physical therapy, and surgical treatments should be performed as prescribed by the doctor.
1. General measures: patients usually need to actively improve their lifestyles, develop good habits, quit smoking in a timely manner, appropriate physical exercise, and ensure a balanced diet. Patients also need to actively treat diabetes, depression, hyperlipidemia and other underlying diseases. At the same time, patients also need to psychological counseling and sexual life guidance under the guidance of the doctor, so as to promote the recovery of sexual function.
2. Drug treatment: usually patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to use sildenafil, vardenafil and other type 5 phosphodiesterase inhibitors, and also with the use of androgens and other drugs. All the above drugs need to pay attention to the side effects and adverse reactions, please use the above drugs under the guidance of a doctor.
3. Physical therapy: some patients can also be taken under the guidance of the doctor vacuum erection device therapy, mainly the use of negative pressure to attract blood flow into the cavernous body of the penis for treatment.
4. Surgery: If medication and other treatments are ineffective, penile vascular surgery and penile prosthesis implantation can be performed as prescribed by the doctor. Surgery involves certain risks or may not be able to meet psychological expectations, and should be chosen carefully with full knowledge of the pros and cons of surgery.
If you have an erection but it is not long, there may be psychological factors interfering with it, so you should make a clear diagnosis under the guidance of your doctor and then deal with it accordingly, and do not make blind judgment and dispose of it on your own, so as not to intervene inappropriately, which will lead to undesirable consequences.