What Is Erectile Dysfunction?

Erectile dysfunction (impotence) is a condition when penis gets erected incompletely. Term “erectile dysfunction” is used to describe full erection inability, erection instability or ability to short erections.

In other words, erectile dysfunction is a persistent inability to get erection, necessary for a normal intercourse. Erection is a difficult process in which are involved emotions, circulatory system and three independent parts of nervous system.

How much dangerous is erectile dysfunction?
Erectile dysfunction usually signalizes about serious disorders in the body.

Erectile dysfunction causes
There are many causes of erectile dysfunction, which can be divided into six groups;
1. Psychological. As specialists say, in 10-20% of cases of erectile dysfunction play role such psychological factors as stress, anxiety, feeling of guilt, depression, low self-esteem and failure in the bed.
2. Taking medications. Smoking, alcohol and taking drugs leads to hypoactive desire. Taking different medications such as antidepressants, ataraxics, allergy medicines, blood pressure lowering medications may negatively influence on erection.. Ask your doctor if there are such medications among medications you take.
3. Vascular diseases, blood circulation disorder. In atherosclerosis, the artery walls become less elastic. This can lead not just to heart attacks and blood-stroke, but also to problems with blood supply in penis.
4. Neurological diseases. On human nervous system can have negative influence diabetes, traumas, spinal cord diseases, prostate gland operations.
5. Endocrine problems. The level of testosterone can be lowered because of endocrine disorders and other diseases, for example, because of liver cirrhosis.
6. Penis traumas or penis diseases. Erectile dysfunction can be caused by Peyronie's disease or priapism. In the first case, for some unknown reason, occurs proliferation of tissues of penis and as a result penis deformation. Priapism is a long erection, little by little getting down sexual function. One more reason for priapism development are injections increasing erection. In case of appearing of painful erection immediately go to the doctor.

Diagnostics
Feeling of displeasure with erection is a reason to undergo medical examination which will help to reveal possible causes of erectile dysfunction. Many men have erection during sleep. If night erections do exist for a long time then emotional causes are excluded.