opolion wrote:Hello FT community, I am new to the forum, and I would appreciate any advice from you guys a lot!
Here is my story:
I am only 25 years old, and suffer from ED since 3.5 now. As you can imagine I am struggling a lot with this condition,
especially because I am still young, overall healthy and not really supposed to have this condition at my age.
It has basically ruined my young years, which should be full of sexual experiences – and makes me highly depressed since I feel like never being able to have a long lasting relationship with a woman in all my upcoming years. It takes off a big purpose of my life and I'm fed up of seeing my friends getting into happy relationships and me struggling so much, just because of my ED. I am a nice, good looking and tall guy, but all relationships and dates I had endend sooner or later because of my ED. I just feel like isolating, until I find any solution of this beast of a problem, it affects my life soo much in a negative way.
Until I was 21 everything was great for me. I had the best erections and super high libido. But then suddenly, strong erectyle disfunction hit me unexpectedly.
It came all of a sudden 3.5 years ago, and was at a time of a lot of alcohol consumption during approx. 2 weeks in my exchange study semester,
so that's probably what caused it (since it's the only possible explanation for me). I didn't think it was permanent and that it even gets worse and worse, I just had no clue about anything like this.
It started off already pretty severe and made me very insecure. Finally, one more party vacation with my friends ruined everything. I highly regret this decison, to have taken that vacation, maybe before my nerves could've still being able to recover.
Then however, I was at the point, where I never got any spontaneous erections, neither during the day, night or morning (maybe slightly occasionaly in the morning) – so I'd say the ED got into a really advanced state.
The problem was I never really knew what it was. I am not an alcoholic. I just drank quite a lot during these 2 occasions. Otherwise I live a quite healthy life and do a lot of sports. I was also smoking during my exchange semester though, but otherwise just socially at parties.
2 years ago, I went to see a urologist in my home country in Europe, but he couldn't give me a satisfactory diagnosis in the end,
and just blamed it to be a psychological cause, when it is clearly not – since it's a condition that's always there, even when masturabating.
He didn't recommend me to do a doppler ultrasound or the like, for which I asked for to find out more.
Ever since, I tried all the different available medications and dosages (levitra, cialis, viagra...), and found that only the strongest dosage of sildenafil (100mg) could mostly help me to achieve intercourse, but even then it wasn't quite satisfactory and also expensive. I could also only come once, every time I took one 100mg pill, which wasn't satisfactory either.
My last and most recent attempt to make my ED better, was doing the low intesity shockwave therapy. I did 5 treatments, with a lot of hope. However, it only made things worse (probably damaged more nerves) and I should have done more research before going into it.
Though, now I found out with quite certainty, that my ED occured because of a autonomous neuropathy, caused by alcohol abuse within a short amount of time. Even though I told my urologist the same possible reason (which I had thought could be the cause), he said that this couldn't be plausible, in such a short amount of time. I now believe though that my nervous system was just too weak and that also bad nutrition lead to the nerve damage.
Now I am pretty sure about the cause. However, now I'll do all available tests to get a medical diagnosis, which still can be quite hard to get since it's tough to figure out nerve damage. My current state is that even with 100mg of viagra, I have a quite limp penis, despite the highest possible arousal and currently I don't feel like I am able have sex anymore.
Finally my questions are:
Do you think I am on the right way, and did anyone experience a similar history with his ED?
Also, the only solution (last resort) for me right now (even though I fear it a lot), would be to get an implant? Would you recommend me getting an implant soon, or do you guys think that there's still other things to try first and that I should wait more?
I also heard of nerve translpantation, however I have high doubt that it could work in my case (they do it mainly after prostatectomies), does anyone know more regarding this? Or do you think it could be good enough in the near future?
Should I proceed thinking about an implant, since my condition is really advanced, or wait? I mean I would do everything to regain spontaneous erections, but how possible is it in my case that I could get them back?
Maybe some of you can help me on my way to a rather normal quality of life and out of deep depression, thanks a lot!
Hey bro I messaged you a while back. I think I have similar condition as you.
, a different type of sensation. I hope that the lockdown ends soon 
