Impotence
Interpretation:
In the language of medicine, the disease of erectile dysfunction or impotence is explained as lack of physical or emotional power required to gain posture of penis erect enough for physiologically proper and pleasurable physical interaction between the two partners. Directly referred as erectile dysfunction, impotence is the state of human body in which it fails to activate sexual responses when applied with significant sexual stimuli.
Key Causes:
The causes of impotence could be picturized in three different dimensions:
1. Causes of psychological roots.
2. Causes of physical abnormalities including those related to surgery.
3. Causes from side effects of other drugs or medications.
1. Causes of psychological roots:
Statistical analysis indicate the percentage of psychologically caused ED to be 15 % of the total population suffering from ED. Psychological causes are predominantly those related to daily mental stress and depression that one comes across during his/her life. Schizophrenic individuals coping with major depression and anxiety problems commonly come across their inability to get themselves ready for physical interaction. Recent emotional trauma or breakups of personal family relations and emotional attachments affect the sexual desire of the individual drastically. Depression due to social or economic crisis deprives the man of his sensual emotions on one hand while on the other; it accelerates his motivation towards unhealthy routines of smoking and alcohol consumption or even drug abuse.
Adaptation to healthy and active life style is the key step towards sexually responsive body state. Positive social interaction and tendency to learn to make yourself and others around you happy are the factors crucial in psychological cure of ED. Medicinal remedies to physiological impotence are also available in the form of oral pills the mst popular of which is being Viagra.
2. Causes of Physical origins:
Nervous dysfunction could lead to inappropriate signaling to erectile tissues thus impotence. Hormonal imbalance, spinal cord trauma, radical pelvic surgery, multiple sclerosis, Parkinsonism, arterial blockage, high BP, smoking and high blood glucose level, high blood cholesterol level, low blood volume and pelvic trauma are some of the many physical causes of erectile dysfunction or impotence. Cardiovascular diseases caused by aging reduce erectile function of penis and stroke also contributes to reduce sexual response. Diabetic neuropathy is the nervous destruction of necessary nervous pathways leading to reduced nervous excitation of the sensory and motor areas of the genitals. Surgical procedures might also lead to nervous destruction and resulting impotence.
3. Drug induced impotence:
Antihistamines, antidepressants, tranquilizers and beta blockers are some classes of drugs adding to the tendency of the consumer to be impotent to sexual activity. Hydrochloridethiazide, amitriptyline, cimitidine, metoclopramide, indomethacin, lithium, verapamil, phenytoin, digoxin, propanolol and gamfibrozil are some of the popular impotence causing drugs og the modern pharmacy.