MEDICAL SOLUTIONS FOR PHYSICAL PROBLEMS: PENILE SHOTS
Sometimes potency responds best to treatments only a doctor can give. Often these treatments are administered by your doctor in his office, with additional instructions that you follow at home. Other times surgery is necessary. Either way, medical treatments have restored potency to a lot of men— permanently. And there are a lot of treatments to choose from. Here’s the latest.
Penile Shots
It seems frightening, but it works wonders: the penile shot. Sticking a needle in your penis to get an erection might not be as romantic as a candlelit dinner and a snapping fire, but some men with potency problems are finding that the shots boost their sex lives. Once they learn the technique, they can use the injections at home when they want to make love.
Your reaction to even the thought of an injection in your penis is probably to shrink back. But really, there’s notvery much to worry about. Men report that the injection doesn’t hurt any more than any other type of shot—and the pain doesn’t last.
The needle is so small—about three quarters of an inch long and quite skinny—that the initial jab itself isn’t very painful. The needle is inserted into the side of the penis, about midway along the length of the organ. There is a slight burning sensation when the medicine is injected, but it quickly disappears.
The drug injected will usually be papaverine, or a combination of papaverine and phentolamine. These medications dilate the arteries in the penis, thereby increasing the blood flow to the organ. In addition, it appears that papaverine dilates the sinuses within the penis where the blood is trapped during an erection. Dilation of the sinuses compresses the veins so there’s less blood leaving the penis.
And a man with a papaverine erection won’t lose it when he ejaculates, because the drug will keep working. The man will still feel pleasure and may be able to ejaculate again, although the ejaculation might seem less intense. The erection will subside only as the medicine gradually leaves the penis and disperses throughout the body.
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