Erectile Dysfunction – Does medication help?

Socially, potency indicates strength, power, and masculinity. To men, bedroom performance settles their self-esteem.

Generally, a man’s sex life blues are his closely guarded secrets. Even in relationships on brink, a couple projects a blissful image though it is messy inside the bedroom.

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is inability to have or sustain erection with adequate rigidity and duration for mutual sexual gratification.
Every man has ED occasionally. While embarrassing during the heat of passion, it is not big enough to feel miserable. Everyone has trouble getting an erection some time due to nerves or booze. Only when it is frequent, it needs attention.

ED is an age dependent disorder. Levels of testosterone, the "male" hormone, decrease gradually with age and may affect sexual function.

Stage fright - the fear of failure - generates tension in some making it impossible to relax and enjoy. When pressured to "achieve", they get nervous. Stress increases body's production of adrenaline and nor-adrenaline, which act as erection inhibitors. This recycles the failure feeling, pumping more anxiety.

Depression is another cause of psychogenic sexual dysfunction. Many antidepressant medications have side effects including erectile failure.

Sexual dysfunction is a common side effect of surgery and radiation treatment for prostate cancer.

ED is more prevalent in patients with other medical conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and cigarette smoking.

Diabetes results in poor circulation and peripheral neuropathy. When nerves are involved, sexual stimuli are not transmitted appropriately to or from the brain and erectile dysfunction develops.

Among medications frequently prescribed for ED, Generic Cialis is popular.

After sexual stimulation, the penis fills up with blood. Generic Cialis relaxes the penile blood vessels when a man is sexually stimulated. This allows blood flow into the penis, leading to erection.

Generic Cialis with considerably less side effects than of the other identical medications, works longer and is not affected by eating and drinking. Users can even drink alcoholic based beverages moderately without impacting the drug’s ability to work.

Taken about one hour before having sex, Generic Cialis’s effect starts in about 30 minutes and lasts up to 36 hours.