Prostate Problems – Causes Of Erectile Dysfunction Sexual Impotence Misnamed

Perhaps nothing causes more fear and anxiety among men who feel their sexual ability to ignore the mandates of his mind and desires.

The erectile dysfunction named incorrectly impotence is the inability to achieve or maintain an erection firm enough for a satisfying sexual relationship. The word “impotence” may also be used to describe other prostate problems that interfere with sexual intercourse and reproduction (absence of sexual desire problems with ejaculation or orgasm etc.). But the term “erectile dysfunction” makes clear that those other problems are not involved.

It is important to clarify that the male sexual organ has-for reasons of force of gravity inversely proportional to age. That is as the years pass and weigh things bow against the man. But age is not only the cause of erectile dysfunction in fact not the years that certain diseases affect only that they bring. Erectile dysfunction may have different origins: psychological endocrine vascular and cavernous.

Because an erection requires a precise sequence of events ED can occur when any of these events is interrupted. The sequence includes nerve impulses in the brain spinal cord and the area around the penis and the responses of muscles fibrous tissues veins and arteries in the corpora cavernosa or near them.

The most common cause erectile dysfunction is damage to nerves arteries smooth muscles and fibrous tissues often as a result of disease. Diseases such as diabetes kidney chronic alcoholism multiple sclerosis atherosclerosis vascular disease and neurologic disease – account for about 70 percent of cases of erectile dysfunction. Between 35 and 50 per cent of men with diabetes suffer from erectile dysfunction.

Also surgery (especially radical prostate surgery due to cancer) can injure nerves and arteries near the penis causing erectile dysfunction. An injury on the penis spinal cord prostate bladder and pelvis can cause erectile dysfunction resulting in injury to the nerves smooth muscles arteries and fibrous tissues of the corpora cavernosa. Moreover many common drugs to treat blood pressure antihistamines antidepressants tranquilizers appetite suppressants and ulcers can cause ED as a side effect.

Experts believe that Psychological factors as stress anxiety guilt depression low self-esteem and fear of failure in sex cause 10 to 20 per cent of cases of erectile dysfunction . Men with a physical cause of erectile dysfunction often experience the same sort of psychological reactions (stress anxiety guilt depression). Other possible causes are smoking which affects blood flow in veins and arteries and abnormalities in hormones such as insufficient testosterone.

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