Erection difficulties and soon softening

Erection difficulties and rapid softening

Some older men will experience a state of weakness soon after their penis becomes erect. This is quite common among many older men. The main reason for this is age. In addition, some diseases should also be considered. The most common ones are lesions of the urinary system, including some lesions of the nervous system. Of course, there are also mental factors. Let us learn about this aspect.

Erection difficulties and rapid softening

1. Psychoneural factors:

For example, sexual psychological trauma in childhood, or lack of sexual knowledge in newlyweds, with tension and anxiety, or emotional discord between husband and wife, disharmonious family relationships; or bad habits, such as excessive masturbation, which reduces the sensitivity of the penis, mental tension, and excessive mental burdens can lead to impotence; excessive mental or physical effort, or adverse mental stimulation, such as excessive depression, sadness, fear, etc., or unbridled indulgence in lust and excessive sex life can all cause cerebral cortex dysfunction and lead to impotence.

2. Nervous system lesions:

Hypothalamic-pituitary tumors or tumors in other parts of the body, localized brain damage, such as localized epilepsy, encephalitis, cerebral hemorrhage and compression, spinal cord injury, spinal cord tumors, chronic alcoholism, multiple sclerosis, pelvic surgery that damages the peripheral autonomic nerves, etc. can cause impotence.

3. Endocrine diseases:

For example, diabetes, pituitary insufficiency, testicular damage or hypofunction, or hypothyroidism and hyperthyroidism, adrenal insufficiency, etc. can all lead to impotence.

4. Lesions of urinary and reproductive organs:

Such as prostatitis, prostatic hyperplasia, epididymitis, varicocele, etc. can often lead to impotence. Some middle-aged and elderly patients suffer from impotence due to prostatitis and prostatic hyperplasia;

5. Effects of drugs:

Many drugs in clinical practice have an inhibitory effect on sexual function, such as reserpine, guanethidine, digoxin, diazepam, furosemide, metoclopramide, etc., which can cause impotence.

6. Chronic fatigue:

The reason why fatigue can cause impotence is that excessive muscle fatigue or psychogenic fatigue caused by excessive brain use, depression, tension, etc. interferes with the arousal of sexual desire, including reduced brain function inhibiting sexual interest, reduced emotional central excitement of the cortical limbic system, and reduced secretion of pituitary gonadotropin and testicular androgen, which reduces sexual excitement.