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Poor Erections???
Question for the guys out there...
For the past five years, I've had the frequent need to urinate anywhere from 10 - 20 times a day. Urine stream is slow and weak as well. During this time, I have also had some minor lower back pain. Went to many doctors over the years, and it wasn't until 8/1/00 that my current uro said that I had IC after performing cysto/hydro.
This past December, I began to notice that the "quality" of my erections was not good. It was taking me longer to get an erection, and I found that shortly after getting one, it would just wilt away.
I also noticed that I was no longer waking up with "morning wood." Uro sent me home with a night-time monitoring device. Test results of the monitoring confirmed my observation of no longer having erections while sleeping. (Healthy guys should have 2-3 erections a night.)
Curious if any of the guys out there have also experienced problems with erections as a result of their IC condition? My uro firmly believes that the two are not related and I'm having some type of neurological problem aside from IC. Hard for me to believe.
My uro suggested that I try out viagra to see what that can do for me. I gave viagra a "test drive" the other day, and while my erection quality was a wee bit better, I still had the problem of it wilting.
On 9/5/00 I'm scheduled to go back to hospital and have urodymanics testing done since my uro thinks that I might have a neurogenic bladder condition on top of my IC. The good news is that the urodynamics testing *might* also explain what's happened to my erections.
All of this is very frustrating to say the least since I've never in my entire life had ANY difficulty getting an erection. (Honest, this is not my male ego talking.) Having IC and urinating non-stop is bad enough, but losing the ability to achieve and keep an erection at age 30...well I'm sure you get my point no matter if you're male or female.
Thanks!
Derrick
For the past five years, I've had the frequent need to urinate anywhere from 10 - 20 times a day. Urine stream is slow and weak as well. During this time, I have also had some minor lower back pain. Went to many doctors over the years, and it wasn't until 8/1/00 that my current uro said that I had IC after performing cysto/hydro.
This past December, I began to notice that the "quality" of my erections was not good. It was taking me longer to get an erection, and I found that shortly after getting one, it would just wilt away.
I also noticed that I was no longer waking up with "morning wood." Uro sent me home with a night-time monitoring device. Test results of the monitoring confirmed my observation of no longer having erections while sleeping. (Healthy guys should have 2-3 erections a night.)
Curious if any of the guys out there have also experienced problems with erections as a result of their IC condition? My uro firmly believes that the two are not related and I'm having some type of neurological problem aside from IC. Hard for me to believe.
My uro suggested that I try out viagra to see what that can do for me. I gave viagra a "test drive" the other day, and while my erection quality was a wee bit better, I still had the problem of it wilting.
On 9/5/00 I'm scheduled to go back to hospital and have urodymanics testing done since my uro thinks that I might have a neurogenic bladder condition on top of my IC. The good news is that the urodynamics testing *might* also explain what's happened to my erections.
All of this is very frustrating to say the least since I've never in my entire life had ANY difficulty getting an erection. (Honest, this is not my male ego talking.) Having IC and urinating non-stop is bad enough, but losing the ability to achieve and keep an erection at age 30...well I'm sure you get my point no matter if you're male or female.
Thanks!
Derrick
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