How long does sexual dysfunction treatment take?

There has never been a unified standard answer to this question - mild symptoms caused by simple bad living habits and psychological factors can be significantly improved in 1-3 months； Complex conditions with underlying diseases and organic damage often require intervention for half a year to a year or even longer. The specific length of time depends entirely on the cause of the disease, the adaptability of the conditioning plan and the degree of personal execution. No one can guarantee it in advance.

A 29-year-old Internet operator who I just paid a return visit last week is a typical case of "quick recovery": he worked on a project for more than three months last year. He always kept fast food and iced milk tea in hand, and smoked to relieve fatigue. Gradually, he developed problems with insufficient erection hardness and short intercourse time. He was afraid that he was "not good enough", so he ate kidney-tonifying pills bought online for more than half a month at home. The more he ate, the more he got angry, and the symptoms became more severe. When he came for a checkup, his hormone and vascular functions were all normal, which is a typical functional disorder caused by lifestyle disorder and anxiety. He adjusted his diet and schedule, arranged pelvic floor muscle training three times a week, and prescribed some short-term mood-regulating drugs. The young man has strong execution ability. He has stopped smoking and drinking. He exercises for 20 minutes every day without fail, and the full count is less than 70 days. The last time he came for a follow-up visit, he said he had completely returned to his previous state.

But such "fastness" cannot be replicated by everyone. Not long ago, there was a 45-year-old private company owner who had a 10-year history of hypertension, and had been diagnosed with diabetes for 5 years. He had erectile dysfunction that took almost 4 years to treat. An angiogram revealed that he had obvious pudendal artery stenosis. This is a typical organic injury, and he must first look into the heart. The department and the endocrinology department adjusted antihypertensive and hypoglycemic drugs to stabilize the basic indicators, and combined with vasodilator drugs and low-energy shock wave therapy. He has been undergoing treatment for almost 5 months now, and he has just successfully completed sexual intercourse. If he wants to be completely stable to the point where he does not need temporary medication, he will need to be treated for at least half a year.

When it comes to judging the duration of conditioning, the logic of different medical systems is actually different. Western medicine will generally clarify the classification first: if it is dominated by psychological factors, usually with 6-8 standardized sexual psychology consultations, obvious changes can be seen. ； If you have functional erectile dysfunction without organic damage, take PDE5 inhibitors according to the treatment schedule, and the first effect evaluation can be done in 8-12 weeks. ； However, if the problem is caused by nerve damage, severe stenosis of blood vessels, or congenital developmental abnormalities, long-term maintenance medication may be required, or even surgical intervention, and the postoperative recovery period will take an additional 3-6 months.

The judgment logic of traditional Chinese medicine is more biased towards individual syndrome differentiation: for example, many young people suffer from liver stagnation and qi stagnation type sexual function decline due to high stress and depressed mood. Generally, soothing the liver and regulating qi can lead to significant improvement in 1-2 months.； If it is a kidney essence deficiency caused by staying up late for a long time or having sexual intercourse, or a damp-heat type caused by a love of drinking and eating spicy food, the conditioning cycle often needs to be extended to 3-6 months. Many experienced traditional Chinese medicine doctors will not give you the right advice right after the consultation. They have to watch the changes in tongue and pulse conditions while adjusting the prescription, and adjust the prescription at any time.

I have been working in this industry for almost 10 years, and the most common misunderstanding I have seen is that people always think about "quick results" and ask "can it be done in 3 days" when they first start, but it is easy to get into trouble. Those folk prescriptions and aphrodisiacs that advocate "7-day cure" and "one-time effect" are mostly illegally added with large doses of hormone ingredients. They seem to be effective when taken, but in fact they are overdrafting the body. I once met a 32-year-old patient who originally had mild premature ejaculation. He took the so-called "ancestral secret recipe" for half a year. In the end, it was found that his liver function was damaged, and his sexual function became worse and worse. It took almost a year of treatment before he slowly recovered.

In fact, to put it bluntly, sexual function conditioning has the same logic as fitness, muscle gain, weight loss and body shaping - you can't expect to get rid of a problem that took you three to five years to be corrected in three to five days. I have concluded over the years that the core factor that affects the speed of recovery has never been how expensive the medicine is, but whether you can follow the doctor's advice and change your bad habits: don't stay up late, drink less, sit less for too long, and don't put too much pressure on your partner. In many cases, recovery is much faster than you expected. There was a patient who was well treated before, but every time he had sex, his lover couldn't help but ask, "Is it okay this time?" This put a huge psychological burden on him, and he failed every time. Later, he took his lover for two psychological counseling sessions, and it was successfully completed in less than half a month.

You really don’t have to worry about how long the treatment will take. If you find a problem, go to the men’s department or urology department of a regular hospital first. Find out what kind of problem you have. Don’t scare yourself by blindly searching on Baidu, and don’t follow random advertisements. If you find the right direction and slowly adjust it, most problems can be significantly improved.