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Symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction

noreply@blogger.com (Hard Erections Online Blog) — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 13:27:00 +0000

It may seem silly to discuss the symptoms of erectile dysfunction since it shows up in such an obvious way. If you have it, there is one major symptom that you notice. A symptom is defined as a condition that signifies the presence of something else. In this case, the ED is the symptom.

Erectile dysfunction, however, is usually the result of some other underlying condition. This underlying condition could be either psychological or physical. Disease, hormonal issues and neurological conditions could all trigger the onset of ED. More serious cases could be caused
by things such as depression or anxiety.

Due to the fact that modern medicine and technology are allowing people to live longer and healthier lives, many people are enjoying sex later in life than they once did. This, and the fact that ED affects more men over the age of 65, is why this problem is now being looked at as a real medical condition.

If a person is unable to enjoy sex, which is a natural part of life, there can be devastating psychological effects. The presence of ED can also indicate the presence of some other disease. This is why the treatment of ED can be so difficult. There is often an underlying condition that also requires treatment.

Aside from the obvious symptoms of ED, there are many other physical symptoms that may accompany it. One example of this would be high blood pressure. Diabetes is another underlying condition that is characterized by excess blood glucose and continual thirst. These are just two possible conditions that could be related to the onset of erectile dysfunction.

There may also be various psychological symptoms that accompany erectile dysfunction. Chronic depression is often associated with this condition. The difficulty arises when trying to decide if the depression is causing the impotence or the other way around. Either condition can cause the other.

The reason for impotence may be something as simple as performance anxiety if no other underlying condition can be found. This could occur if a man is once again trying to begin a sex life after a long period of time without. This could be because of being widowed or divorced, for example. The worry and anxiety of beginning to have sex again can cause doubt about one's ability to do so. This can often lead to actual impotence. A pattern of self doubt and lack
of confidence can begin if one starts to believe they cannot perform sexually.

It is up to you to sit down with your doctor and try to determine what the actual causes of the condition are. No treatment will be successful without a proper diagnosis. The condition may be able to be treated with drugs, such as Viagra or Cialis, or some other treatment may be necessary. Either way, proper diagnosis is the key.

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Healthy new year resolutions for better sex life for you in 2009

noreply@blogger.com (Hard Erections Online Blog) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:20:00 +0000

Every year we make new year resolutions and try to make our lives better. Try these healthy resolutions this year and see how your sex life also gets improved:

Lose weight this year:

With the launch of "change4life" compaign in the UK this year, more and more focus is being drawn on the soaring problem of obesity in the UK adults. Obesity is really bad for many health risks related reasons such as diabetes, heart problem, stroke etc but it is also linked to erectile dysfunction. If you are obese or over weight and having erection problems as well, losing weight can help reverse erectile dysfunction (ED). Studies show that almost 40% men over age 40 have some degree of ED. About 75 per cent of cases have an underlying physical cause, including serious medical conditions such as heart disease, high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol levels, and obesity is a risk factor for all of these. There has been no better time for losing weight then now as more and more help is in hand now. Visit Online Slimming Clinic to read more about losing weight.

Quit smoking:

The mere promise of better health might not be enough for many to quit smoking, but visualizing yourself with bladder cancer may give you a better reason to quit smoking. According to research, smokers are twice as likely to get bladder cancer as non-smokers. Quit smoking and improve the prospects of your overall health this year. See if Champix can be of any help.

Reduce Stress:

Stress can cause Erectile Dysfunction, so trying to become stress free is a very good idea if you intend to bring the energy back into your sex life.

Control cholesterol:

High cholesterol is a leading cause of heart disease and also seems to affect prostate health. There may be a link between high cholesterol and prostate cancer in men, so eating properly and exercising regularly can keep this risk lower. You can get lots of help online on how to control your cholesterol.

Weak Erection Causes and Symptoms–cure Weak Erection

noreply@blogger.com (Hard Erections Online Blog) — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:48:00 +0000

Introduction:

The weakness of erection during sexual intercourse can occur when the two small arteries do not receive the flow of blood from the heart and the aorta. The weakness in erection is the lining of blood vessels too weak to get to the penis.

Weak erection could be defined as inability to keep an erection strong enough to continue sex during love-making. This is sensitive part of the body must be in good conditions to keep the erection such as nerves pulses in the brain, spinal column around the penis, fibrous tissue muscles and veins near the corpora must be also in good conditions to allow full erection penis to take place and its occur when any of this activities disturbed.

Research has shown that weak erection has affected millions of men in the world today. It occur occasionally with man having experience at early stage does not mean that one has weak erection; it is normal and should not be worry, but if its more than two months, one can consult a specialist.

Weak Erection is an Aged Problem.

The new ways of handling this problem that causes failure in life has being discovered in recent time. The strong bond has been broken, to openly discuss the problems among themselves. Men have openly talked about the weak erection among themselves on the subject matter, initially they were ashamed, embarrassed and feeling incomplete. The treatments of this peculiar life problem are available in order to overcoming the inadequate situations, because to discuss about the problem is acceptable and willingness to search for better solutions in recent time.

What are the Causes of Weak Erection

The disruption of blood flow to the penis vein is a major cause of weakness of penis during sexual intercourse. Although, there are other causes to the weakness in erection such as suffering from diabetes for a long period of time which must have damage the nerve system, cardiovascular disorder, prostate cancer operations, side effects of using hard drugs, multiple sclerosis, hormonal disorders, alcohol and drug abuse, emotional problems such as depression, anxiety, fear of guilt, low self-esteem; and also old age plays importance rule in the development of weak erection in a man's life, because weak erection occur so much in the age bracket of 40 – 65 years. This age group seems to live in total weakness of penis due to their past activity in their early age.

Who suffering from Weakness in Erection

i.Those involve highly in use of drugs and alcoholic,

ii.Those suffering from trauma or surgery damage on the vein around the penis,

iii.Those living in depression, stress and anxiety,

iv.Those who smoke heavily with serious disorders such as High Blood Pressure, and

v.Those who lives overweight, etc

What are the Symptoms of Weak Erection

Many men take much of stimulants for direct actions when having sexual intercourse, when there are no symptoms of weakness in erection, and practice of this method for long time may cause weak erection. Alternatively, if a man notice sign in weakness of erection or organism taking longer time to achieve erection during love-making, which some stimulation drugs being apply to increase volume of ejaculation, then, specialist should be contacted immediately.

How Weak Erection Diagnosed?

Consulting medical experts on weakness in erection for proper cross-examination on your medical and sexual details to figure out the source of problem is necessary. Please be honest when discussing with your medical consultant so as to enable him conduct correct diagnosis.

Your doctor may want to carry out a several medical examination to rule out any possible effects which will result conducting many tests for proper results to determine your blood count, liver enzymes, free testosterone in the blood and urinalysis.

Ultrasonography test should be carried out in order to ascertain the arterial circulation in the genital organs, neurological evaluation to assess nerve damage, cavernosometry to determine the penile vascular pressure in the blood flow to and fro the penis to be traced with an injected dye may be scheduled. Erection during sleeping is another way of testing but does not guaranteed perfect result. It is very necessary to conduct psychosocial examination to reveal the causes of weak erection problems.

How to Cure Weak Erection

Use of stimulants and other means to achieve quick erection during sexual intercourse causes weak erection; why not discuss with your consultants of the possibility of your weakness of penis and present treatment taken. Frequent use of stimulant during sexual intercourse accounts for 35% of weakness of penis during love-making among men.

Changes in lifestyle may reverse weak erection such changes may be to stop smoking, loss of weight, exercises, reduces stress, sleeping well, attending physical and medical seminars, group discussions, and medical examinations.

Surgeries are rare to cure weak erection, and can be recommended when necessary. But there are some drugs to revitalize the weakness. However, some drug having worse side effect when used, may be recommended before using it. Research shown that mechanical vacuum devices involve several parts which must be intact during sexual intercourse; and oral testosterone is option to cure weak erection, but this may cause liver damage. Weak erection is commonly among young men in recent time.

Living With Weak Erection.

You need to talk to your partner and also study material on weak erection. You should discussing and asking questions from your medical consultants. If possible you can meet community health researcher for possible advice and prescriptions for appropriate treatments. Research confirms that weak erection is not disease to be hopeless in life. There is hope to lives with Weak Erection.

Author's Bio

Dr John Anne is a Herbal and Sex Specialist having years of experience in the field of Sexual Health Care. Read about Weak Erection Causes at Sexual Health website.

New Jet lag Pill

noreply@blogger.com (Hard Erections Online Blog) — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 13:56:00 +0000

For anyone who has been unfortunate enough to be stuck looking up at the ceiling of their bedroom or hotel trying to sleep. But have been unable even though it maybe 3.30 in the morning. Will know that crossing time zones (jetlag) & shift work is a nightmare.

But a new drug that has been successfully tested in human volunteers may offer hope for future travellers and shift-workers.
In two clinical trials the drug tasimelteon, which helps to shift the natural ebb and flow of the body's sleep hormone, melatonin, increased the time volunteers spent asleep, helped them to get to sleep quicker and reduced the amount of time they spent awake during the night.
The research team did not test how well their subjects performed the day after taking the drug - something that would be crucial on a business trip - but it should help travellers to feel more normal.

"All the evidence suggests it would because if you have shifted your clock and you've slept well, then you should perform well the next day," said Dr Elizabeth Klerman, at Brigham and Women's hospital, Boston, who led the study.

Melatonin is released naturally by the pineal gland deep in the brain in response to light levels. It binds to receptors in the brain's circadian clock and acts to entrain the clock to the day-night cycle. "You can think of melatonin as something which quiets the awakening signal from your body clock," said Klerman. "It does not put you to sleep ... but once you drop off it prevents you from waking up early if you are trying to sleep at an unusual time."
Tasimelteon mimics melatonin and binds to the same receptors. Klerman and her colleagues conducted two clinical trials in which they studied volunteers who had their body clock advanced by five hours - the same as travelling from New York to London.
They compared sleep patterns in people given the drug and those given a placebo. Neither the researchers nor the subjects knew who had been given which.

The researchers report today in the Lancet that in the larger of the trials, volunteers on the medium dose of the drug slept for an average of 48 minutes longer. The time they spent awake during the night was also less: 140 minutes on average for the placebo group, compared with 106 minutes for people who took a medium dose of tasimelteon. The study was funded by Vanda Pharmaceuticals, which makes the drug, though it has not yet been approved by the Federal Drug Administration.

Klerman said although melatonin is available in US health food stores - it is not legal in the UK - there is conflicting evidence about how well it works. It is licensed as a supplement and does not fall under the remit of the FDA. "What you get in a health food store isn't necessarily pure and the dose isn't necessarily what they say on the bottle," she said.
To combat jet lag, the NHS recommends topping up on sleep before you travel; adjusting to your destination, by shifting your watch as soon as you get on the plane; avoiding alcohol; and by spending lots of time outdoors in the daylight. If you are considering taking melatonin supplements the NHS recommends consulting your doctor first.

Study Confirms That Levitra® On Demand Is Effective In Patients With ED After Nerve-sparing Prostatectomy

noreply@blogger.com (Hard Erections Online Blog) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:23:00 +0000

A study published in the European Urology journal demonstrated that Levitra® (vardenafil, HCI) is highly efficacious in men with erectile dysfunction (ED) even shortly after radical nerve-sparing prostatectomy. This landmark study conducted by Bayer Schering Pharma was a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicentre study, the largest of its kind until. It investigated the tolerability and efficacy of Levitra taken once nightly as a prophylactic treatment versus Levitra PRN taken on demand (i.e. when needed) versus placebo after a bilateral, nerve-sparing, radical retropubic prostatectomy (BNSRRP).In the first, double-blind phase of the study, which started approximately 14 days after surgery and ended nine months later, men experienced excellent results with Levitra. 36 percent of men taking Levitra on demand (on demand vs. placebo p=<0.0001), 20 percent taking Levitra nightly (p=<0.01) and 17 percent of men on placebo reported normal erectile function (represented by an International Index of Erectile Function (IIEF) of ≥ 26) measured at last observation carried forward (LOCF). Over the entire double-blind period the mean per-patient success rates for a successful intercourse were 46 percent for Levitra on demand (vs. placebo p=<0.0001), 34.5 percent for Levitra nightly, and 25 percent on placebo as measured by one question of the diary-based Sexual Encounter Profile (SEP). The study does not support its primary endpoint, the concept of maintaining erectile function by an early intervention with nightly dosing of Levitra in patients after nerve-sparing prostatectomy.....

Full article: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/116222.php

Sexual desire elusive for many women

noreply@blogger.com (Hard Erections Online Blog) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:19:00 +0000

It’s the biggest sexual problem women have, and the little blue pill doesn’t seem to help.

Viagra – the medication that enables male erections – doesn’t enhance sexual interest among women taking anti-depressants, a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says.

The drug does help women taking the drugs have orgasms more frequently, the JAMA study reports. And it does engorge the clitoris, although this doesn’t yield higher sexual satisfaction, other research shows.

But desire, that elusive flame that propels women toward sexual partners, remains untouched, according to this new study and earlier research by Pfizer Inc., the company that makes the medication.

Viagra “doesn’t have any effect on libido," Robert Taylor Seagraves, a psychiatry professor at Case Western University, told US News & World Report.

"It doesn’t work for desire," echoed Lillian Arleque, 62, a Viagra user and the author of “When Sex Isn’t Good,” quoted in today’s Baltimore Sun. "When you take Viagra it increases blood flow to your genitals. It increases sensation."

Just how big a problem is a lack of interest in sex among women?

A study in last week’s Archives of Internal Medicine shines new light on the question.

Researchers conducted phone surveys of 2,207 women age 30 to 70 and found that 36.2 percent – or more than one out of every three women – admitted to tepid sexual desire in the last 30 days. All the women had been in a steady relationship at least three months.

The finding is consistent with earlier studies. For instance, when University of Chicago sociologist Edward Laumann asked U.S. women about sex in a landmark 1999 study, also published in JAMA, 32 percent reported having low libidos. (By contrast, 15 to 17 percent of men acknowledged a diminished sex drive.)

Another study of 1,355 Swedish woman between the ages of 18 and 74 that year found that 33 percent reported low sexual desire "quite often," "nearly all the time" or "all the time."

And two years ago, in a survey of 2,050 U.S. women published in the journal Menopause, researchers found that 24 percent to 36 percent reported a distinct lack of sexual interest, depending on their age and menopausal status.

The new Archives of Internal Medicine review also documents declining interest in sex for a significant number of women after menopause.

(The study was funded by Procter & Gamble, which wants to sell a testosterone patch for women in the U.S. It’s already available in Europe.)

Of women who entered menopause naturally as a result of aging, 52.4 percent confirmed low levels of desire. By contrast, 26.7 percent of women still getting their periods and 39.7 percent of women in menopause because of surgical interventions (removal of the ovaries) found themselves without sexual urges.

What’s going on?

Changing hormones, which are disrupted through menopause, may explain some of the falloff in sexual interest, says Suzanne West, the study’s lead author and senior public health researcher at RTI International. And clearly, the quality of women’s relationships may be a factor, although this study doesn’t examine inter-personal influences, she adds.

Particularly notable is a somewhat surprising finding: Most women who experience subdued desire don’t seem particularly perturbed about it.

Indeed, only one-quarter of the women who said they weren't inclined toward sex were disturbed by their lack of feeling. Distress levels were lowest among women in natural menopause and highest among women in surgical menopause........ Source http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/triage/2008/07/sexual-desire-e.html

Have you got an erection problem? - Erectile Dysfunction in a nutshell

noreply@blogger.com (Hard Erections Online Blog) — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:36:00 +0000

Did you ever wonder what does the term "Erectile Dysfunction" stand for? You might be subject to an erection problem or Erectile Dysfunction if you have any one or all of these symptoms:

Low sex desire

Not being turned on

Insufficient erection (for intercourse)

Unable to keep an erection during intercourse

Not having an orgasm

Quick ejaculation

Weak orgasm

Having an orgasm but unable to ejaculate

Painful sex

Erection problem can have many forms in different men:

Some men are able to get an erect penis but cannot ejaculate or have an orgasm. Some men can erect and ejaculate but experience a decline in the intensity of the orgasm. Others are able to ejaculate and have orgasm with a soft penis. Some men can attain an erection but not sustain it in order to penetrate and complete the sex act. Others can erect and penetrate but ejaculate too quickly to satisfy themselves or their partner. Some men will experience pain in the genitalia with sexual activity.

How to tell if your erection problem has an underlying psychological reason?

Impotence of short duration is very often psychologically related to a specific event or has a physical cause such as beginning a new medication or having gone through a surgical procedure. If you can achieve a fully hard erection with self-stimulation or with the help of your partner, indicates normal blood and nerve supply to your penis.

If you get a good-quality erection at any time that is sufficient to complete the act of intercourse, yet at other times you are impotent, or being able to become erect with self stimulation but not for intercourse is usually an indication of a psychological problem.

If you are impotent only with a certain partner there is not likely to be any physical problem causing impotence.

Impotence with longer duration suggests a physical cause:

Impotence that is of a longer duration and has come on slowly but progressively usually has a physical cause such as poor blood flow.

If you had any of these illnesses in the past, your doctor needs to know about it because these may indicate an underlying physical cause of impotence.

Heart Problem

High Blood Pressure

Diabetes

Thyroid gland disease

Testicular disease

Parkinson's disease

Stroke

Cancer

Kidney disease

Any Other neurological disease

Some drugs can cause Erectile Dysfunction:

Commonly prescribed medicines such as antidepressants, blood pressure pills, sedatives, hormones, drugs for peptic ulcer, and over-the-counter cold medications can contribute to erectile failure in some men. You should review your medications with your doctor.

ED Treatments:

For more information on Erectile Dysfunction, please visit the following web sites:

http://www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk/articles/article.aspx?articleID=210
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/104740.stm

http://www.viagra-information.co.uk/

Viagra helps depressed women: study

noreply@blogger.com (Hard Erections Online Blog) — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:48:00 +0000

The erectile dysfunction drug Viagra has proven effective at combating sexual dysfunction in depressed women, according to a study published Tuesday.

Sexual dysfunction is a common side effect of antidepressants and a major reason why people stop taking medication for their depression.

This is particularly problematic given that twice as many women as men are prescribed antidepressants but the most effective drugs used to combat sexual dysfunction in men are not approved for use in women, the authors wrote.

Researchers tested Viagra on 98 women whose depression was in remission but were still experiencing sexual dysfunction such as lack of arousal or pain during sex.

The women were told to take a pill one to two hours before sex for eight weeks. Half were given placebos pills which had no pharmacological effects.

Some 73 percent of the women given placebos reported no improvement with treatment while only 28 percent of the women taking Viagra said they did not notice an improvement, the study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found.

Some of the women experienced headaches, flushing and indigestion but none of them withdrew from the trial because of side effects.

"By treating this bothersome treatment-associated adverse effect in patients who have been effectively treated for depression, but need to continue on their medication to avoid relapse or recurrence, patients can remain antidepressant-adherent, reduce the current high rates of premature medication discontinuation, and improve depression disease management outcomes," wrote lead author George Nurnberg of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine.

Source: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5g3N8_g1vIiMgKatK04yBYjgLluog

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