Something I've always wondered about

[bob3085]

So, I'm a 64 YO bi-sexual male with all the usual ongoing ED issues from prostate radiation and most recently green light laser procedure. I get what I'm going through and it is what it is. However, my ED problems seems like they have always been with me going back to my teenage years. Let me explain.

There was a guy my age when I was about 16 and 17 that we would get together to fool around. Even at the that hormone-saturated age, often times I'd be completely limp when we got together. It was the strangest thing. Now, I had suffered some sexual abuse as a child which I always attributed it to, but to be honest as awful as it sounds, I never really paid much attention to the abuse. It was there but didn't really affect me. I've had lots of limp situations over the years with man and women also and often was able to overcome it but often I could not. And that would be in situations that I should be excited and hard as a rock.

If anyone has any insights into this - I've never really talked about it before but it is just a curiousity.

[Martin6469]

Sounds like a puberty hormone problem that continues. Get your testosterone measured from a GP or urologist. If it's low, ask him for a referral to an endocrinologist. If it's not low, ask him for a referral to an endocrinologist who specializes in mens' sex hormones.

Keep in touch here.

[GoodWood]

There are some unlucky guys who had ED from the onset with no contributing factors.

You can got to a urologist, get examined, and they might do an ultrasound/doppler study of the blood flow into and out of the penis. That can provide some insight.

But the treatment is exactly the same regardless: pills, shots, implant.
A VED with a constriction ring can work for some
Men but mostly pills, shots, implants are the solution.