How long does it take to treat sexual dysfunction?

There has never been a unified standard answer to this question. If it is caused by mild psychological factors, it can be significantly improved in 4 to 8 weeks. If it is caused by severe organic disease, it may require long-term conditioning from months to years. Some irreversible damage may even require lifelong maintenance of healthy habits to control symptoms.

The 28-year-old guy who came to my clinic a while ago is a typical case of rapid recovery. He works in the Internet. He worked on projects for three months and slept less than 5 hours a day. In addition, he had frequent conflicts with his girlfriend during that period. After the first failed sexual intercourse, he left a psychological shadow. I didn’t prescribe him too many medicines, so I asked him to get rid of his habit of staying up late. He would spend 20 minutes a day running, and go for psychological counseling once a week. Occasionally, he would use some short-acting auxiliary drugs as needed before sex to help him build up his confidence. It only took 5 weeks, and he came for a follow-up visit and said he had completely returned to his previous state, and he still maintains the habit of exercising three times a week.

Of course, not everyone can be so smooth. The 47-year-old Zhou who came last month is in much more trouble. He has been suffering from diabetes for 12 years. He usually takes medicine blindly to control his blood sugar. He had erectile dysfunction for almost 3 years before he had the nerve to check it out. This kind of long-term high blood sugar has eroded the capillaries and nerves in the penis. It is an organic damage and cannot be effective in a few weeks. I first asked him to go to the endocrinology department to stabilize his blood sugar to the normal range, and then cooperated with the conditioning plan to improve microcirculation and nourish the nerves. It took him almost 5 months to finally see significant improvement. It will probably take him less than half a year to reach a satisfactory state. And after that, as long as the blood sugar control is not stable, the symptoms are likely to recur, which is equivalent to living with a long-term awareness of conditioning.

Nowadays, the opinions on this issue on the Internet are extremely polarized. Some people pat their chests and claim that the disease can be cured in 7 days, while others claim that the disease cannot be cured in a lifetime. In fact, both of these are unreliable. Those who say a 7-day cure are basically selling illegal health products. At most, they add banned fast-acting ingredients, which are useful immediately after taking them. It is not conditioning at all, but may delay the treatment of the original disease. ； To say that it is completely incurable is too negative. Eighty-nine percent of the patients I treat can get good improvement results as long as they find the right cause and follow the doctor's instructions. However, everyone's basic physical condition and duration of onset are different, and the recovery period is naturally different.

In fact, sexual function conditioning is very similar to repairing an old car. If you just temporarily run out of gas or the battery is low on electricity, you can add some electricity and recharge it and you can run normally in a few dozen minutes.； If the engine is worn out or the gearbox has an old problem, it will have to be disassembled and repaired slowly. After repairing, it will take a long time to run it in smoothly, which is naturally time-consuming. If you really encounter a problem, don’t just ask how long it will take to get better. Cooperate to investigate the cause first and set reasonable expectations. On the contrary, you can recover faster.