Erectile dysfunction: symptoms

The inability to maintain or achieve an erection that is sufficient for intercourse is erectile dysfunction. The reasons for this "embarrassment" are: strong mental or physical fatigue, excessive alcohol consumption and others.

What is erectile dysfunction?

If erectile dysfunction is rare up to twenty cases and one hundred, there is no reason for excitement and going to the doctor. But if the episodes of erectile dysfunction are frequent, then it is necessary to immediately consult a doctor.
Experts divide the erectile dysfunction into primary and secondary. During the primary impotence, a strong part of humanity can not achieve an erection under any circumstances, with a secondary disorder is periodic, there are times of sexual full-fledged activity have a place to be. A man with selective erectile dysfunction under certain circumstances does not achieve an erection, but at others reaches.

Symptoms of erectile dysfunction

Erectile dysfunction symptoms can be as follows:

• One of the symptoms of erectile dysfunction is the weakness of an erection. Feeling of loss of stiffness of the penis during the sexual intercourse is the first sign of a sufficiently significant violation of the quality of the erection. Basically, this is determined by the organic and vascular causes of impotence, in rare cases, psychogenic-functional.
• Another symptom is the non-occurrence of an erection. Most often, this symptom occurs with far-reaching and gross pathological processes in the penis and in diseases of the reproductive system. Specialists differentiate this symptom from the appearance of spontaneous morning and night erections and not the appearance of adequate erections.
• Psychogenic erectile dysfunction is characteristic in the case if spontaneous morning and night erections are saved in the patient, and adequate is reduced or absent. A sign of organic erectile dysfunction is the simultaneous violation of adequate and spontaneous erections.
• Erection failure is also a sign of erectile dysfunction. This is a reliable and constant indicator of venous leakage, which accompanies organic erectile dysfunction by the venous type. The mechanism of the symptom is a violation of the outflow and retention of blood in the cavernous bodies, as well as its inflow. During psychogenic erectile dysfunction, this symptom is less common. If, with this symptom, the erection remains with masturbation, it indicates a psychogenic mechanism of erectile dysfunction.