Can prostatitis cause impotence?

Prostatitis is a common chronic inflammatory disease in men. When prostatitis occurs, it will cause a variety of symptoms, such as frequent urination, urgency, pain, and other urinary system symptoms. In addition, chronic prostatitis has a great harm to male sexual function, often causing erectile dysfunction, impotence, and premature ejaculation. If the inflammation is more serious, it may even cause hematospermia, painful ejaculation, etc.

1. Symptoms that cause sexual dysfunction:

Chronic prostatitis is likely to cause patients to experience some sexual dysfunction symptoms, such as impotence, premature ejaculation, painful ejaculation, hematospermia, etc., which seriously affect the quality of sexual life. The symptoms will worsen after sexual intercourse, which is a malignant stimulation to patients and even affects the relationship between husband and wife and family harmony.

2. May cause male infertility:

For patients with chronic prostatitis, long-term chronic inflammation is likely to cause changes in the composition of prostatic fluid, adversely affecting the secretory function of the prostate, causing interference with the liquefaction time of semen, and reducing sperm motility, thereby causing the adverse consequence of male infertility.

3. Cause endocrine disorders:

Chronic prostatitis is likely to cause endocrine disorders, such as neurasthenia, insomnia, slow thinking, memory loss, etc. Severe cases may even lead to the occurrence of mental disorders.

4. Severe urination disorder and local pain:

Long-term stimulation of chronic prostatitis substances can cause patients to have severe urination disorders, such as frequent urination, urgency, pain, incomplete urination, and excessive nocturia, which seriously affect the normal life and work of patients. In addition, local pain is also a frontier symptom of chronic prostatitis, such as bloating in the lumbar sacral area, perineum, testicles, etc.