Penile Prosthesis is usually a last resort when confronting symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction impacts hundreds of thousands of men every year and can be caused by a number of reasons. Emotional issues, stress, underlying health concerns and many more problems could be a cause of erectile dysfunction. Most of these cases may be treated through other means such as medication and therapy. However, if all else fails, your Urologist may recommend a penile prosthesis procedure in order to solve your erectile dysfunction problems. Penile Prosthesis is another term for a Penis Implant and can be implemented in a few different ways.
What are the Different Types of Penile Prosthesis?
Penis implants are taken into account if no other treatments for erectile dysfunction are having success. The two main forms of penis implants consist of an inflatable penile implant and the semirigid penile implant. Here we’ll go into detail about these two procedures.
Inflatable Penile Implant – These inflatable implants that are pumped up prior to any sexual activities. Usually, the inflatable penile implants will consist of three attachments. There will be a reservoir under the abdominal wall that will hold fluid. Next, there will be a pump and release valve inside of the scrotum to control the fluid that will be used for inflation. Finally, the inflatable cylinders that will maintain your erection.
Semirigid Penile Implants – A semirigid penile implant usually consists of rods that remain firm at all times. These are used by simply bending the penis in either an upward or downward position.
Other Options for Erectile Dysfunction Treatment
The causes of erectile dysfunction can come from a variety of areas within a man’s life. From underlying physical problems to psychological issues. If there are psychological factors impacting your life, then your Urologist may recommend a therapist to speak to you about depression, stress and anxiety. On the other hand, an underlying physical condition may require surgery or medication in order to heal the issue. Once these options have been attempted without success, your Urologist may consider a penile prosthesis.
Erectile Dysfunction (ED), is the inability to maintain an erection required for sexual intercourse. ED effects millions of men throughout the country and it is perfectly normal for someone to experience symptoms of such during their lives. Erectile Dysfunction is directly impacted by your life. Many of these symptoms may be traced back to something psychological or stressful within your life. In situations such as these, ED symptoms will occasionally appear but not be hindering your sexual health completely. If you suffer, or believe to be having symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction, it is important to talk to your Urologist to solve these issues.
Symptoms and Impacts of ED
Erectile Dysfunction is in fact a physical issue that disables you from obtaining or maintaining an erection. However, these physical malfunctions can cause lasting psychological, social and mental health conditions. It is important to take note of the amount of times symptoms of erectile dysfunction surface. If you are experiencing these issues more than 50% of the time, this is likely caused by a physical or mental problem and should be discussed with your South Florida Urologist. Here are some of the symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction:
Difficulty when attempting to obtain an erection.
Trouble with maintaining an erection.
Lower amounts of sexual desire
Treatments of ED
There are multiple different treatments for erectile dysfunction that all have their own purpose depending on the cause. Here are a few different options of treatments and reasons for why they are used:
Medications – Oral medications are usually prescribed when there is an obvious difficulty for the stimulation of blood into the penis.
Therapy – Many times erectile dysfunction is directly associated with stress and anxiety. For these situations, therapy is a good start for treatment. Any symptoms that are able to dissipate by not using any medications or surgeries are ideal.
Penile Prosthesis – Also known as penis implants. These devices are surgically implanted into the penis for those who’s ED symptoms are not aided by any other means.
If you believe you are having any symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction contact your South Florida Urologist at Z Urology. Z Urology has locations all over South Florida including Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs and Pompano Beach!
One of the most common reasons that men go to Dr. Z Urology’s office, is because the best urologist in South Florida can help with erectile dysfunction. Before one gets the help they need. They should understand exactly what ED is.
What is Erectile Dysfunction?
Erectile Dysfunction is defined as the inability to achieve and maintain an erection sufficient for satisfactory sexual activity. It is common and in most cases, can be treated. Erectile dysfunction affects men of all ages. However, more than 85% of men with ED don’t seek treatment. It is not a disease, but a symptom of another problem, which might be physical, psychological, or a mixture of both.
How Common Is It?
Erectile Dysfunction is very common. An Australian survey showed that at least one in five men over the age of 40 has an erection problem, and about one in ten men is unable to even have an erection.
How Do Erections Work?
During physical arousal, nerves release chemicals that increase blood flow to the penis. Blood flows into two erection chambers in the penis, made of wet muscle tissue. The corpus cavernosum chambers are not hollow. During an erection, the spongy tissues relax and trap blood. The blood capillaries in the penis relax and open up, leaving the blood to fill them. Blood trapped under high pressure generates an erection. Ejaculation is a reflex action managed by the central nervous system.
Why Does Erectile Dysfunction Happen?
A decrease in blood flow to the penis from narrowing blood vessels is often the cause of ED. When erectile dysfunction happens, there might be several contributing factors, and it is usually a combination of physical and psychological causes. Sometimes, there is no apparent reason at all for erectile dysfunction.
Physical Causes include:
• Vasculogenic Situations – Disease of the heart or cardiovascular disease (CVD), high blood pressure, raised cholesterol, and diabetes.
• Neurogenic Situations – Various sclerosis, Parkinson’s disease, stroke, diabetes, and spinal injury.
• Hormonal Conditions – Overactive thyroid gland, an underactive thyroid gland, hypogonadism (low testosterone level), Cushing’s syndrome (high cortisol level), a head or brain injury recently in the past and subarachnoid hemorrhage or radiation to the head (these may cause hormonal changes, particularly a low testosterone).
• Anatomical conditions – Peyronie’s disease.
• Surgery and radiation therapy for bladder, prostate or rectal cancer.
• Injury to the penis.
• A side effect of directed medications.
• Recreational medicine use.
• Excessive alcohol consumption.
Erectile Dysfunction is also more likely to occur in people who smoke, are overweight, or are not active enough.
If atherosclerosis is the cause of your ED, this narrowing is likely to impress other blood vessels in the body as well, including the arteries that supply blood to the heart. That means ED can an early warning sign of future heart problems, appearing some 3-5 years before a heart complaint. You may, therefore, be able to prevent a next heart problem from happening if you see your doctor for treatment soon after your Erectile Dysfunction starts.
Psychological Causes:
• Your erection is great, except for your partner.
• You are suffering stress and anxiety from work or home (family or money).
• There are marital rows and dissatisfaction (which may also cause premature ejaculation problems).
• You are depressed.
• Failure once is followed by fear of subsequent failure.
• Your partner has physical issues.
• You are bored sexually.
• You are concerned about your sexual orientation.
• You have suffered previous sexual abuse.
What are the Symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction?
The main symptom of (ED) is the inability to get and maintain an erection for satisfying intercourse. Or it can mean you cannot get an erection consistently, or can only get brief erections. There are three Symptoms of Erectile Dysfunction.
• Inability to get an erection
• Failure to keeping an erection
• Reduced Sexual Desire
If Erectile Dysfunction is affecting a man’s well-being or his relationships, it should be treated. Treatment aims to fix or enlarge erectile function, help circulatory health, and help the quality of a man’s life.
How is Erectile Dysfunction Diagnosed?
• A review of health and sexual history may reveal conditions that lead to erectile dysfunction. It can also help your healthcare provider to tell the difference between problems with erection, ejaculation, orgasm, or sexual drive.
• A Physical examination to look for the main problem.
• A problem in the nervous system. This may be involved if your penis does not respond as expected to specific touching.
• Secondary sex features such as hair pattern can point to hormone problems, which involve the endocrine system.
• Unusual features of the penis itself could suggest the cause of Erectile Dysfunction (ED).
• Lab tests including blood counts, urine tests, cholesterol tests, and measurements of creatinine and liver enzymes. When low sexual desire is a feature, checking testosterone in the blood can show problems with the endocrine system.
• Penile ultrasound is used to scale the blood flow in the penis.
• A psychosocial exam that is done to help find psychological causes that may be affecting your performance. They may also interview your sexual partner.
• Other Tests: Inquiries are often used by health specialists to rate your ability to initiate and keep erections, gauge your satisfaction with sex, and help identify any problems with orgasm.
What Treatments are There?
Usually, there won’t be one special treatment that helps. For some men, there is a reversible underlying cause that can be treated. For others, the erectile dysfunction problem can’t be cured, but it can be managed.
If you are suffering from erectile dysfunction, pick up the phone and call Z Urology, with offices in South Florida. Call today!
We provide state-of-the-art urologic care in the South Florida area with a focus on both male and female urology. Our practice specializes in all urologic procedures, specifically, minimally invasive methods. Our three locations to choose from are located in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs and Pompano Beach.
We at “Z” specialize in bladder issues, erectile dysfunction (ED), prostate issues, urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction, stone disease, BPH, male infertility, pyeloplasty, Peyronie’s disease, and ureteral reimplantation.
The questions surrounding erectile dysfunction are vast and numerous. It makes sense. We are sexual beings and do not need any hindrances involved in something (sex) that we hold so dearly. So we really need to know now, why is erectile dysfunction on the rise among young men?
For older men, the condition is typically related to atherosclerosis (clogged arteries), diabetes or high blood pressure. But up to a quarter of new ED patients are now under 40. Scroll through online health forums and you will see an increasing number of young men seeking therapy for erectile dysfunction. Unless the cause is nerve damage or deep psychological scars, the condition is often temporary in younger men. But is that exactly a silver lining?
Urologists and therapists have their theories as to why erectile dysfunction is more prevalent today. An increase in pornography viewing (watching three to five times a week) can result in a loss of appetite for real-life sexual interaction. This is because the brain’s dopamine reserves are consistently diminished from overstimulation.
An impact of porn on sexual desire study by the Naval Medical Center in San Diego, found that of the 300 men and women who took part, porn had no effect the women’s sex drives, but it did for men, with three percent claiming they would rather watch porn than have sex. It is believed that this is due to the unrealistic expectations that porn represents.
What Causes Erectile Dysfunction
For some young men, an unhealthy lifestyle can trigger erectile dysfunction. Hitting the beers hard, doing the occasional line of coke. You may go to masturbate and realize that your penis had shrunk.
For young men cocaine use, along with heavy drinking, can cause blood vessels to narrow, preventing enough blood from getting to the penis. Cannabis smokers should also be wary. Daily weed smokers are three times more likely to suffer from erectile dysfunction compared to non-smokers. Junk food is another culprit, as it increases your blood pressure and cholesterol, which restricts circulation and hardens arteries.
It’s not just regular drug users who are at risk. A study in the medical journal Acta Neurologica Scandinavica found that even long-distance cycling can damage the neurological nerve systems required for penile stimulation. Men would have to be off-roading regularly on a bike with a particularly hard saddle to be at risk of perineal or nerve damage.
It’s pretty rare, but any trauma to the penis can cause temporary ED. Even painful sex can give men psychological concerns about getting an erection, which can trigger ED.
Sex therapist Joanna Benfield believes ‘Millennial ED’ is almost always the result of psychological rather than physiological issues, particularly if men have no problems getting an erection while masturbating, but are unable to achieve one with a partner.
We think about the penis as being disconnected from everything else that’s going on in a man’s life,’ she says. ‘In fact, it’s extremely sensitive to stress. If a man is facing work difficulties or financial worries, it’s likely to affect sexual performance.’ Anxiety dulls the nervous system, which is required to spark arousal, and the hormones released when you are stressed, cortisol and adrenaline, can also constrict the blood vessels.
Treatments for Erectile Dysfunction
For the partner of an ED sufferer, it can be a huge dent to your confidence, especially as we often take on the responsibility for our partner’s arousal. Benfield says it’s important you don’t interpret erectile dysfunction as a personal slight, as this can lead to you pulling away from each other out of fear of rejection.
If you think you have any signs of erectile dysfunction, then you probably need a quality urologist. Pick up the phone and call Z Urology, with offices in South Florida. Call today!
We provide state-of-the-art urologic care in the South Florida area with a focus on both male and female urology. Our practice specializes in all urologic procedures, specifically, minimally invasive methods. Our three locations to choose from are located in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs and Pompano Beach.
We at “Z” specialize in bladder issues, erectile dysfunction (ED), prostate issues, urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction, stone disease, BPH, male infertility, pyeloplasty, Peyronie’s disease, and ureteral reimplantation.
As if just having the erectile dysfunction wasn’t bad enough, now the news has come out that men with “ED” are more likely to be diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat, according to a new study.
Atrial fibrillation, or “AFib”, is an irregular or quivering heartbeat that can lead to blood clots, stroke and heart failure. The condition affects up to 6.1 million people in the United States. Past research has shown a link between cardiovascular disease and erectile dysfunction, or ED. Researchers behind the new study wanted to find out how “AFib” fits into the picture.
It is well known that ED symptoms appear two to three years before one sees any cardiovascular disease symptoms, so if ED symptoms can be used as a marker for predicting future “AFib”, it may be possible to treat the patient early and hopefully stop the disease progression.
What Did the Study Show
The study included 1,760 older men without a history of “AFib”. After four years, 9.6% of men who reported having erectile dysfunction were diagnosed with “AFib” compared with 2.9% of men without the condition. Even after adjusting for various risk factors, including smoking, weight, diabetes and blood pressure, shockingly, men with erectile dysfunction were 66% more likely to be diagnosed with “AFib”.
The study shows a reasonably strong association. If patients have ED, physicians should investigate other cardiovascular risk factors and initiate treatment as soon as possible.
Among the study’s drawbacks, patients self-reported their erectile dysfunction and researchers don’t know if the condition was caused by vascular problems or psychological issues. The other limitation in the study is that atrial fibrillation is very difficult to detect.
“Loads and loads of my male patients have ED, and when I read the (study) I said, ‘Wow, this connection makes sense,'” said Dr. Hugh Calkins, director of the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He is a co-author of the recent “AFib” guidelines update issued by the AHA, American College of Cardiology and Heart Rhythm Society.
“It’s a very original study that will undoubtedly trigger a new round of research on the topic and bring up a greater discussion of the overlap of vascular health, ED and “AFib,” said Calkins, who was not involved in the study.
Calkins said more research is needed on the connection between erectile dysfunction and asymptomatic “AFib”, where patients have no symptoms. Sometimes called “silent AFib,” the condition may be more common than previously thought.
If you think you might be suffering from erectile dysfunction, then you probably need a quality urologist. Pick up the phone and call Z Urology, with offices in South Florida. Call today!
We provide state-of-the-art urologic care in the South Florida area with a focus on both male and female urology. Our practice specializes in all urologic procedures, specifically, minimally invasive methods. Our three locations to choose from are located in Fort Lauderdale, Coral Springs and Pompano Beach.
We at “Z” specialize in bladder issues, erectile dysfunction (ED), prostate issues, urinary incontinence, sexual dysfunction, stone disease, BPH, male infertility, pyeloplasty, Peyronie’s disease, and ureteral reimplantation.
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