Questions about Viagra, Cialis and Levitra, and Peyronie's disease
Boy, do I get questions about Viagra, Cialis and Levitra and Peyronie's disease! Most of these questions come from men who are taking these drugs on the advice of their MDs who using it as part of their Peyronies treatment efforts.
These drugs are wildly popular, not only among men who have erectile difficulty (Peyronie's disease impotence) but also healthy men who merely use them to have longer lasting and more repetitive sexual intercourse.
Sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it?
While I hate to spoil the fun, but over the years I have had a disturbing number of men tell me they know their PD started after using Viagra, Cialis, etc. The erections created by these drugs are indeed super-erections and get to be that way because of the greater than normal internal pressure that is created within the tunica albuginea. This is powerful stuff that can really cause problems in this delicate area of the male body.
These drugs create such hard and long-lasting erections because they induce an abnormal state in the penis. What if you could take a drug that would enable you to lift a ton of weight above your head and keep it there for an hour? Nice trick, very impressive, but your body is not built to take that kind of pressure. It would cause great damage to internal organs, your spine, your blood vessels, all major joints, etc. Simply put, “It just ain’t natural.” Same with Peyronie's treatment with Viagra, and the rest of these products.
As much as it might sound like a dream come true, the penis is not built to sustain increased internal pressures that are created by these drugs, and the penis is not built to have hour after hour of intercourse. That kind of activity can be abusive to the delicate tunica. Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.
I have an interesting story from a man who called me a few months back and explained that he injured his penis in a most unusual way. He and his wife had used Viagra for the first time to their mutual delight. Both of them went to sleep, except his penis continued to stay erect. It was a monster of an erection and at first he thought it was great. During the night, while asleep with a huge erection, he rolled over in bed and jammed his penis into the mattress. He felt a great pain and felt the tissue “pop.” Basically he tried to pole vault on his erection and he found his penis could not sustain that force. About two months later he developed PD. Can you imagine what would happen if you already have Peyronies disease and had something like that happened? You would go from bad to worse. This man did.
I know many men with PD have their MDs write prescriptions for these erections drugs. I am sympathetic why men do these things. They figure if it was not good for them the MD would now do it. What they forget is that most MDs do not understand or care about PD, and are more interested in getting the fee for the office visit, than doing what is the smart thing to do. MDs also perform surgery for PD that makes the problem worse, knowing there is a high rate of poor surgical results from this kind of surgery. Just because you can get a prescription for it doesn’t make it any safer or any less stupid in the long run.
Use your head and stay away from these forced erections.
One last metaphor. Your car tires are designed to hold 40 pounds of air pressure. What would happen if you decided to increase the pressure to 80 pounds, just for “the fun of it?” Well, first of all, we would all understand the tire would be much more likely to blow up and pull away from the rim because it was not built to be used that way. It would be damaged by applying more pressure to it than it was built to take. Enough said.
Peyronie's Disease Institute has access to some really great Oriental herbal erection enhancing – not forcing – products. These will easily and gently boost your erectile ability but not in such a forceful way that you will get hurt. They surely do work, but with no side effects, they last a good 8-12 hours, and they are a whole lot less expensive than your prescription drugs. Let me know if you are interested and I will give you some information about these wonderful and safe products.
