fucked0ne wrote:
This is a great post, but what about the fact he still gets morning wood? Diagnostically, wouldn’t that alone cancel out a venous leak?
I’m not a doctor, and can’t tell you what the qualification level is for “diagnosis”, but as I understand it based on my reading about it and conversations with doctors, no, morning wood is not evidence of the absence of a problem with venous leak. Venous leak is when blood is flowing into the corpus cavernosa, but for some reason leaks out. Men with venous leak can often get erections but have trouble maintaining them. Moreover, the ability to maintain the erection is largely tied to being in a relaxed state. So being asleep is a particularly good time to get an erection from that perspective!
My doc put it like this: we really don’t know what causes most venous leakage, and the treatment is the same regardless of cause: the same old escalation of pills, pumps, shots and implants. So a “diagnosis” of venous leakage is particularly useless, because it doesn’t change the treatment.
But the characteristic of venous leakage compared to a lot of other problems is that venous leakage sufferers *can* get erections. Other problems mean you are not getting any blood in the first place.
Note that the psychological “treatment” of ED is just relaxation techniques. When you have ocasional ED, a relaxation technique might help you. But it’s not going to help you for very long.
Pills didn’t come out until I was in my twenties. So I learned before that to try to make sex as relaxing as possible for me, and that would ocassionally work. But it wasn’t a solution AT ALL. And I got morning wood and spontaneous erections too, definitely from porn. But as years/decades went by, there was deterioration in my ability to get an erection across the board.
