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Impotence Treatments

1) Counseling: Being counseled by a healthcare professional can help sort out the emotional or physical causes of impotence.
Injections: The medications papaverine or prostaglandin, when injected at the base of the penis, produces and erection in most men.
2) Medical Urethra System for Erection (MUSE): Producing an erection in 15 minutes, a small pellet of the medication alprostadil is inserted into the penile opening; it may sometimes cause pain in the penis.
3) Vacuum devices: There are many vacuum devices currently available for the treatment of impotence. The penis is placed in a plastic tube and using the suction method, an erection is caused by bringing blood into the penis. Then a rubber ring is placed at the base of the penis to prevent the blood from flowing out of the penis. But, this can be safely used for no more than 30 minutes at a time.
4) Penile prosthesis: Often removable, these devices are surgically placed in the penis to simulate an erection.
5) Hormone replacement: Testosterone therapy is usually only offered to men who have medical conditions that cause low testosterone levels.

There are a lot of herbal impotence cures, which you see advertised online.

These "natural cures for male impotence" claim that they work just as well as the 3 aforementioned FDA drugs at a fraction of the cost. Before you use any of these natural pills, consult your doctor. You don't want to pay anything that acts as a useless vitamin pill in disguise.

Although the manufacturers of these herbal pills boast that you don't have to talk to your doctor about impotence, fact is, the 3 aforementioned drugs are the impotence cures, albeit temporary. Although vitamins, such as Vitamin C and Zinc, are known to be effective in helping men with impotence, they don't have proven track record like other treatments do. Herbal cures for impotence may work, but they may not work. Always, talk to your doctor.

As sex is an integral part of life, problems with erections may have an emotional impact on both partners. It is hard to know exactly how many men suffer from impotence at any given time as some men still hesitate to come out in the open. The best estimates are 5% of men by age 40, and 75% of men by age 80.