How long does it take to recover from sexual dysfunction treatment?

There is never a uniform recovery cycle for this matter. Mild to moderate psychogenic problems can return to normal in 1 to 3 months. Most organic problems combined with underlying diseases require conditioning for half a year or more. A very small number of patients with irreversible damage to nerves and blood vessels even require long-term intervention to maintain normal functions.

Last year, I met a 26-year-old young man who just moved in with his girlfriend. The first few times he had sex, he was too nervous and failed one after another. Later, he became more and more afraid of making mistakes. He secretly bought a lot of aphrodisiac supplements and took them to no avail. When he came for a check-up, his hormone levels and penile blood flow tests were all normal. It was just because of the heavy psychological burden. I gave him two cognitive counseling sessions, and taught him stop-motion training for couples. I specifically told him not to regard this as a KPI that must be completed, but to relax more. After only one and a half months, he came for a follow-up visit to report the good news, saying that there was no problem at all.

Not everyone has such a good recovery speed. The 45-year-old patient we received last month had a history of high blood pressure for eight years and smoked a pack of cigarettes a day. It was found that he had insufficient blood supply to the penile arteries, accompanied by a mild decrease in the sensitivity of the erectile nerves. This cannot be solved in three or two months. First, he had to stabilize his blood pressure within the standard range, strictly quit smoking, and cooperate with medication to improve vascular endothelial function. Now he has persisted for four months and has just successfully completed sexual intercourse. It will take at least two or three months of consolidation to be completely stable without rebound.

Nowadays, the opinions on this matter on the Internet are quite polarized. They either boast that "sexual dysfunction can be cured in 7 days" or "this disease cannot be cured at all and can only be supported by taking medicine." In fact, both of them are untenable. Those who say you will be well in 7 days are basically gimmicks sold by merchants who sell low-quality, quick-acting drugs. Those drugs only temporarily dilate blood vessels and do not touch the root problem at all. Taking too much will aggravate the damage to blood vessels. ； Most of those who say it cannot be cured either make random supplements and adjustments without finding out the cause, or they completely fail to follow the doctor's instructions. They fail to control their sugar and stay up late. No matter how good the conditioning plan is, they will not be effective.

In fact, this matter is similar to repairing a family car. If it just occasionally fails to ignite when it is cold in winter, you can adjust the operation and warm up the car to drive normally. If there is too much carbon deposits and the oil line is blocked, then you must slowly clean and maintain it. If the core parts are irreversibly worn, you will need long-term maintenance to make it work properly. There is no unified "repair time".

I have been working with this type of patients for almost ten years. To be honest, what affects the speed of recovery the most is never how good the medicine is, but the patient's own cooperation. Don't ask "how long will it take for me to get better" at the beginning? Do all the examinations that need to be done first, and change the bad habits that need to be changed. Nothing is more reliable than anything else. If you always look for quick and easy remedies, it is easy to drag temporary functional problems into chronic ones, which are more difficult to treat.