Erections Poll

[spstriken]

What best describes you (without ed pills)?

• Experience erections a few times a month or less
• Experience nocturnal and morning erections a few times a week
• Experience nocturnal, morning, and mentally stimulated weak to average erections a few times a week each
• Experience nocturnal, morning, and mentally stimulated average to hard erections a few times a week each
• Experience nocturnal, morning, and mentally stimulated average to hard erections a few times a day
• Experience nocturnal, morning, mentally, and visually (not porn) stimulated hard erections a few times a day (meaning fully capable in bed)

I can not believe you are thinking only about your DICK. If you tell this all to doctors or scientists you can not win.They will force Viagra or other meds like that and will certainly give you some antidepressants too. Things like these give the message “we have only a non working dick and the rest is fine”. The reality is, Dick is just a small piece of a big puzzle. Inability to do physical tasks, muscle loss, weak control over body movements, mental retardation, memory impairment,vision loss, insomnia, Depression, social phobia, damage to family life or marital status etc are far more serious effects of the use 5 alpha reductase inhibitors. we should talk and show these effects to world. Remember this is not just a poll. your are showing a very incomplete picture of our problem to thousands of visitors to this website.
If you consider erections as your main problem then why don’t you consider an implant?

[omega]

@youngbuck21

I have been on propecia/proscar for 13 years. 10 years I did not notice any sides. The last 3 years I experienced exactly the same thing you described in your post (I could not have explained it better): I have rock hard nocturnal and morning erections, but they go away instantly when coming to consciousness.

For a long time, I did not suspect finasteride (because 10 years it did not do any harm to me). I visited an urologist and he checked my hormones. Everything was OK and he had no clue what is wrong with me.

When I found this site with men describing the same symptoms like me, I stopped taking finasteride immediately. I am off fin for 2 months now and I do not see any improvements.

The strange thing for me is that when I awake during the night with a rock hard erection, I feel a little bit horny, too. But this feeling only lasts as long I am dozily. During the whole day my libido is zero and I am absolutely not able to have a spontaneous erection.

Concerning your question how to manage sex with a girlfriend: I always try to have sex with her either during the night or early in the morning when I have rock hard erections. Most times I am able to hold these erections until the finale. I am conscious that this is not a satisfactory condition; but it is the only way for me to have pleasurable sex. I also tried viagra, but it did not work for me. I think viagra is useless in my case, because also with viagra you need a stimulus to achieve an erection. And with libido being zero, this stimulus is missing.

[robbo]

i am in my sixth year of pfs now and i could probably count on both hands the number of spontanious, nocturnal, or morning hardons ive had in all that time,no life in my dick since i crashed 6 years ago,although its very rare i have sex anymore i can have sex without viagra etc if i try,its a lot easier with the viagra though,the trouble is i cant feel anything most of the time and when i can its not much,the only way i can feel even a little turned on is if its new,like a new female,having any type of long term relationship is impossible now,what id give to have back those rock hard erections and that primal urge to fuck women,all that is in the past it seems until some cure for this is found,i have the other sides as spstricken mentioned like depression,anxiety,social phobia,fatigue,but for me the sexual ones have hit hardest,if there was one thing i loved doing in life it was sleeping with women…

[spstriken]

@youngbuck21

sps - you must not know much about my story. I do know quite a bit about yours. This post is only about erections because thats all I want to know about in this specific post. I have a plethora of other problems just as important as erections. I am alarmed to hear men here can get erections with women without any ed pills as I rarely have any libido and can’t imagine even trying to have sex without ed pills. So this poll is mainly a curiosity to see how I compare to others.

I repeat. if you are thinking about sex that means you are not that bad. you should get an implant or use viagra as many here are doing although it is not a solution.

[robbo]

i for one think about sex a lot,not because i crave it,i have no appetite for it,i think about the sex i used to have before pfs,how good it used to feel to be able to enjoy a woman etc,as im sure most other men on here do…

[sfoch]

I have been off finasteride for about a year and a half after it caused a 100% impotence within a week. I improved after about 2-4 weeks. Was able to have a few strong orgasms and had a few normal erections (though genital numbness never resolved). Just when I thought I was going to recover, it all went away. There has not been any improvement since. Cialis/Viagra are able to give me modest erections, but not good enough for sexual intercourse. Still too “rubbery”. I intellectually think about sex now because I want to be able to do it again and be excited by a women, especially when I see so many good looking ones around in Spring! Unfortunately, I do not have a libido really and my genitals remain numb, so any stimulation to the penis doesn’t feel good at all. I have had my first few (and very modest) morning erections in years recently. They don’t last and they are not rock hard. More half mast. Orgasms if I can achieve them are pleasureless for the most part and pretty much are just experienced as elevated heart rate and somewhat uncomfortable ejaculation (also I never regained my ejaculate volume of pre-PFS era). Some days I am very very depressed. Interestingly the ability to have good erections and libido (whatever chemical process that it involves) seems tied to my motivation and the ability to enjoy things. When I had the few good erections last year and strong orgasms, my motivation came back with fury and I felt like working out and getting things done! Anyway, more than you wanted but hope that helps.

[spstriken]

If your total T , free T and bio available T is low or below range then these surveys are meaningless.It is understood low T causes ED or impotence. IF your blood profile is good or close to normal and you have erection problems then this survey serves some good cause. My T, free T and Bio available T is very low, almost touching the bottom range, so are my erections. I recently visited a new Dr. He looked at my blood report and told me my T is low and I must be having issues in my bedroom for which my answer was yes ( I had not told him about SP use). He told me to use Agel or T injections. That said I still don’t want to focus too much on sex. we should try to find root cause.

[spstriken]

@youngbuck21

sps - I just did new tests and I’ll be posting them on the forum soon. I have normal readings for T almost always except when I was crashing. I now have high prolactin, estrogen, shbg and low vit. d consistently.

I am curious as to what happened to editing posts? I’d like to change the poll a bit for the options.

yes please change it and add ask people some more parameters like
total T
free T
prolactine
urine E2 level, blood E2 leve
etc
etc

after these all you can ask errections quality.