Treatments for erictile disfunction

The injections work well for some but not all men - there are also pellets (Muse) and cream made of the same stuff. But when you say you are having no luck, what have you tried? Are you using a pump regularly? Do you have daily Cialis on prescription? Have you tried Levitra and Viagra?

If not done so already, reading these two threads may help you

https://community.prostatecanceruk.org/posts/t9839-One-wife-s-story-of-ED1#post119001

https://community.prostatecanceruk.org/posts/t10993-Erecting-the-Erection---Medication#post134233

I use Invicorp 25. The other injections, which do work for many men, had me literally doubled over in pain. The creams and pellets for me were useless. It's a matter of trial and error until you find what works for you.

Ulsterman

John had 5mg Cialis for 3 years or more - he found Levitra more successful than Viagra and it works rather faster.

They don't always warn you that Viagra has to be taken on an empty stomach - and although it varies from man to man, it doesn't work immediately so are you waiting long enough? If John wanted sex in the evening, he had to take the viagra in the late afternoon, or if he took it at bed time, it worked the next morning. Worth a try?

If you don't like needles, I would certainly try Levitra, Cialis and Muse or cream before you resort to the injections.

Hi Steve

I am a year ahead of you op wise. I am on Viagra 100mg roughly every other day and have used a pump from about last July, I think I should have started that earlier. I had no responce at all untill a year post op and then only a stiring. Then at about 14 months another improvement which seems to have plateaued. So still nothing useful.
Its only been 5 months for you. Look at how Chris has done above after three years.
Lots of good advice on here.
Its obviously different for each of us and I find it particularly demoralising and depressing.
We live in hope and I wish you and everyone else living with this curse all the very best of luck.

Cheers

Bill

Hello stevelev,

Your recovery may seem to be extremely slow. Actually it's not. And you may have to come to terms with the fact that you are not a statistic among all the other statistics. You are your own statistic.

Recovery of any function, UC or EF will take time. Time is the variable. And that time is - YOUR - time.

When I had my RRP and met my GP later, we discussed patients who after RRP leapt off the table with a hard on, and perfect urinary control. He said then, we don't talk about those bsatrads. Made I larf.

What are you doing to encourage and promote your own rehab?

I'm a bit out of touch, but did they used to say, who ever TF they are, that after 1 year or after 2 years your recovery was as good as it will eat? Rubbish. Absolute rubbish.

You can wait for help or you can do whatever you can to help your rehab.

So, exercise it, massage it, manipulate it, swing it, twirl it, do whatever you can to get blood flowing to it, in it and and around it.

A pump, used daily, excellent. Several times a day? Even better Tablets? Cialis daily, if you have them, get through the potential side effects, headaches leg cramps. They may last for a week or three, but the benefits are worth it. Take paracetamol or ibuprofen, but worth persevering with.

Remember this. What you do, or do not do now, may well shape the rest of your sexual life.

It's a tihs position to be in. Most of us have been there. Many of us are there. Do whatever you can to give you hope.

atb

dave

I stand corrected, rightly so. Or do I?

It "may" not be total rubbish?

Only probably mostly rubbish.

When I first came here 5 years ago, I was presented with, and told what my future may hold. It was pretty much doom and gloom.

Quote:

"WE WERE TOLD WHEREVER YOU ARE AT 2 YEARS, THAT'S AS GOOD AS IT GETS - THAT WAS CLEARLY UNTRUE".

Ergo, total rubbish.

To any man going through this siht "journey", I have always said, don't give in. Don't quietly accept the "expert" view.

The most informed expert on your "journey" is you.

As a total amateur, but an expert sufferer, so called "expert" views are to be considered, then, if they go against you challenged and overturned.

For all we know, the difference between becoming a tihs statistic and a good statistic may just be attitude, and a bit of luck.

Never. Never give up.

atb

dave

in remission post RRP 13 May 2018. PSA running at undetectable since then.

I’m one month away from three years post op. Whilst I’ve worked at recovery from week 8 in every way shape and form with satisfactory results , the real magic has happened between years 2 and 3.
Never give up hope and keep Mr Wriggly’s ego inflated literally each day.