To state what should now be obvious: the causes of erectile dysfunction are many and varied. This makes it difficult for any physician to pinpoint the exact cause of your problem without performing an extensive range of tests. Unfortunately, this would be time-consuming and expensive. Thus, still wearing my physician’s hat, we have to look at the most likely possibilities given your medical profile and concentrate our efforts on those areas. Only when we have eliminated the most common, should we begin spending money on the less common. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, someone once said that the clothes maketh the man. Having put on my physician’s hat, I found the change in point of view useful so I’m going to continue in that vein for another consultation. Read the rest of this entry »

For once, I’m going to put on my physician’s hat and give you the view from the other side. Read the rest of this entry »

So you’re sitting there with all those questions still buzzing in your head about why you’ve suddenly found yourself in this situation with erectile dysfunction and whether a simple prescription for Viagra, Cialis or Levitra will solve the problem, where you can buy Viagra online, and so on. Read the rest of this entry »

You’re through the door into the physician’s consulting room, your head full of questions about Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, whether you can get Viagra without a prescription, and so on.

You sit, you pass the test of courage and, for the first time, tell a health professional that you have erectile dysfunction (ED) — perhaps not using those words, but your physician gets the message and makes the predictable reassuring noises. There is a momentary pause and you manage to get your first question out about buying Viagra online.

A hand is gently raised. Yes, everything will probably be all right. Yes, he will almost certainly be writing out a prescription for Viagra, Cialis or Levitra. But first, there are one or two questions. Read the rest of this entry »

We know that sometimes a problem seems less serious when viewed through the bottom of an empty glass (except, for these purposes, remember that excessive drinking can be a cause of your erectile dysfunction (ED)). But Dutch courage is not required to get you through this door for your first consultation. We are demystifying the whole process for you so that you can approach the entire exercise with more confidence. Read the rest of this entry »

You are poised at the door of your doctor’s consulting room but not in the Lovecraftian way the title of this piece would suggest. Or perhaps we should explore the idea for a moment. For those of you not into HPL and The Mythos, there is a vast shared universe of novels and short stories which assume that there are Elder Gods still able to influence and threaten us in our everyday lives. Read the rest of this entry »

Well, here you are. You’ve made the decision to come and visit your doctor and you’re about to walk in through the door to the consultation room. Warning! Warning! The doctor may say, “Hello”. or greet you as if you only had one head. When the doctor physically examines you and finds the other head, a decision will have to be made. But until then, he or she will treat you as just another patient. Read the rest of this entry »

We start today’s article knowing that you have the commitment to go talk through your problem with a doctor. Read the rest of this entry »

As men, our lives were relatively uncomplicated until Pfizer Inc. invented Viagra. Until then, we could huddle away in a dark corner and indulge our melodramatic ability to feel sorry for ourselves. Our world had come to an end. We had ED. That made us no better than women (sorry, I exaggerate — we are always better than women. . . Read the rest of this entry »