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.Treatments Available
- Colpermin
- Colofac
- Fybogel Mebeverine
- Mebeverine
How it Works
.- Diuretics – cause your body to increase the amount of urine it produces. Commonly used to treat high blood pressure, heart failure and kidney problems.
- Antihypertensives – used to treat high blood pressure, e.g. beta-blockers.
- Fibrates – prescribed to decrease cholesterol levels.
- Antipsychotics – used for some mental health conditions, like schizophrenia.
- Antidepressants – prescribed to tackle depression or sometimes pain
- Corticosteroids – contain steroids (these are a type of hormone)
- H2-antagonists – for stomach ulcers
- Anticonvulsants – prescribed to people with epilepsy
- Antihistamines – used to manage allergies, like hay fever
- Anti-androgens – suppress androgens (male sex hormones)
- Cytotoxics – used in chemotherapy
If you’re worried that your medication is causing erectile dysfunction, speak to your GP as there might be other options that you could try. Don’t stop taking a medicine that your GP has prescribed without discussing it with a qualified professional though.
- Psychological: anxiety or stress, depression, relationship difficulties.
- Physical: any problem that relates to the nervous system or to circulation could cause erectile dysfunction, e.g. the narrowing of blood vessels leading to the penis (as a result of high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, or other factors), an injury or as a result of surgery. Changes in hormone levels can also cause ED.
It is also possible for some medicines to cause erectile dysfunction.
You might find that you sometimes experience difficulty getting an erection and other times find it very easy. For example, you might get an erection in the morning and when you masturbate, but not when you try to have sex with your partner. In this type of scenario, it is likely that the cause of your erectile dysfunction is psychological. It could be stress related, for example. If you can’t ever get an erection, under any circumstances, the causes of your impotence are probably physical.
Treatments Available
- Colpermin
- Colofac
- Fybogel Mebeverine
- Mebeverine
- Hormonal conditions such as a change in your hormone levels, for example, as a result of an overactive thyroid, an underactive thyroid, Cushing’s syndrome or hypogonadism can all result in impotence.
