What’s wrong with a not-so-hard morning erection?

Morning erections may be caused by non-disease factors such as bad habits, or by pathologic factors such as chronic systemic diseases, venous fistulae, genital inflammation and so on.
1. non-disease factors: bad habits such as long-term smoking, alcoholism, late at night, mental stress, excessive anxiety, etc. can cause the symptoms of morning erectile dysfunction, timely adjustment of a good work and rest, reasonable exercise, relaxation of the mood after the symptoms can be gradually relieved.
2. Pathological factors:
(1) chronic systemic diseases: such as diabetes, hypertension and other diseases can cause the hardening of the deep penile arteries, not conducive to the congestion of the corpus cavernosum, resulting in insufficient blood supply to the corpus cavernosum, the symptoms of the morning erection, and diabetes will also produce damage to the autonomic nerve, which can also be caused by the morning erection is not hard.
(2) venous fistula: can cause venous impotence, early in the morning male parasympathetic nerve excitation, causing the corpus cavernosum to be engorged with blood penile erection, but due to the existence of arteriovenous fistula, blood from the arteriovenous fistula outflow, thus causing the symptoms of morning erection is not hard.
(3) genital inflammation: such as infection caused by prostatitis, epididymitis and other diseases can cause patients to appear morning erection symptoms, can also be accompanied by pelvic area or epididymal pain and other symptoms.
After excluding physiological factors, it is recommended that patients with the above symptoms consult a doctor in time to improve the penile erection test, male genital ultrasound and other examinations to identify the cause of the disease and actively treat it to avoid delaying the condition.