What Causes Erectile Dysfunction?

Psychological issues is believed by many to be the root cause of erectile dysfunction problems but, it is important to understand that there are also other root causes of erectile dysfunction problems. One of the other causes of erectile dysfunction in patients is that there might be an intrinsic medical cause.

Let us use a situation as an example. A married couple, after being married for some time, found out that the husband has erectile dysfunction. Due to her concern that something may be wrong with her husband, the wife encouraged him to go to the doctor for consultation. Due to the husband’s view that it makes him less of a man if it is to be let known that at a young age, he is suffering from erectile dysfunction, he went against his wife’s suggestion and did not go see a doctor. After some time, he experienced different symptoms that he thinks are not related to his erectile dysfunction problems. As their sexual relationship and their marriage is affected by his erectile dysfunction problem, the wife finally insisted that he should go to the doctor for check-up. And so, he paid his doctor a visit. After running some tests, it was found out that in his pituitary gland, there is a growing tumor and, that is the reason why his testosterone level is insufficient. He then enjoyed a blissful sexual relationship with his wife the moment the tumor was removed from his pituitary gland as the tumor is in fact, the reason why he once had erectile dysfunction.

Hence, it truly is not just a psychological thing when we say erectile dysfunction. Stress, depression, or other emotional concerns may be the reason why a man has erectile dysfunction but, it is still important that he seek a doctor’s help because there might be an underlying medical attention that is being ignored but has to be given the needed medical attention.

In many cases, an erectile dysfunction can be treated and it is a problem that needs to be dealt with. There are a lot of available drugs in the market that can help with erectile dysfunction. If the medications that are easily available in the market are not applicable, then there are other means that can be done like implantable penile prosthesis and drugs that are injected directly to the man’s sexual organ. If, eventually, the above solutions that are mentioned does not work, a microvascular surgery may be an option.

There are a lot of men who are ashamed when they have erectile dysfunction so they would rather hide it but, they should not be ashamed. In this time and age, it should be realized and accepted that eventually, most men will undergo this stage in their life when they will have erectile dysfunction problem but what is important is that, there are a lot of ways for an erectile dysfunction to be cured and be treated.