How long does it take to recover from sexual dysfunction treatment?

If it is mild to moderate psychosexual dysfunction caused by fatigue, short-term anxiety, and occasional poor performance, significant improvement or even complete recovery can be seen in as fast as 2 to 4 weeks.； If it is organic damage, combined with long-term chronic underlying diseases, or chronic sexual dysfunction that has lasted for more than 2 years, the conditioning cycle may take 3 to 6 months. Some irreversible injuries may even require long-term maintenance intervention. There is no such thing as "a cure in a few days".

The youngest patient I have ever dealt with was only 22 years old. He was too nervous to have sex for the first time and failed. After that, he tried 3 times in a row but it didn’t work. I was so scared that I read the men’s department ads for a week and almost went for a nerve block surgery. Later, I came to the outpatient clinic for hormone and erectile function monitoring. It was all normal, but it was purely due to the heavy psychological burden. I gave him a box of low-dose Tadalafil to take as needed, and taught him a few tips on how to communicate with his partner. He came back for a follow-up visit in the third week and said that there was no problem at all, and there was still more than half of the box of medicine left to eat.

Of course, don’t think that everyone can recover so quickly. I just received a 48-year-old diabetic patient last month. He has a medical history of almost 10 years and has had poor erection for 3 years. Before, he bought various kidney-tonifying health products and ate hundreds of thousands of them, but it was of no use at all. After checking, he had obvious symptoms. The endothelium of blood vessels is damaged. In this case, there is no need to rush. First, let him go to the endocrinology department to stabilize blood sugar within the normal range, and then use medicine to expand blood vessels and improve circulation. I told him in advance that it would take at least half a year to see obvious effects. If the blood sugar cannot be controlled, no matter how long the treatment is, it will be in vain.

Nowadays, many people are controversial about the conditioning cycle of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. In fact, there is no need to argue: Western medicine pays attention to precise attack. For example, if you have decreased sexual desire and poor erection caused by androgen deficiency, you can feel an increase in sexual desire in a week if you supplement androgen quickly. If you have psychological erectile dysfunction, use PDE5 inhibitors as needed. There is a high probability that the first use will be effective. However, in order to stabilize the condition and be able to have normal intercourse without medication, it usually takes 1 to 3 months of conditioning cycle. Traditional Chinese medicine pays more attention to overall conditioning. For example, many people stay up late for a long time, suffer from dampness and heat caused by alcoholism, or suffer from kidney deficiency in old age. When conditioning, we start from the overall condition. It usually takes 1 to 2 months to slowly feel the change. The advantage is that after adjustment, the condition is more stable and is not easy to rebound. I generally suggest that if patients want to see results quickly and gain confidence, they can first use Western medicine to quickly improve symptoms, and at the same time use Chinese medicine to adjust the overall condition. Combining the two will make recovery faster.

To be honest, I have seen too many people recover slowly. It is not a physical problem at all, but because they are too hasty. Last week, there was another patient who came to me after just one week of treatment and complained that it was still not working. When I asked, he said that he had been staying up late every day to catch up on projects, smoked two packs of cigarettes a day, and took medicine only when he remembered it. Do you think this can help him get better quickly? Treatment is never a matter for the doctor alone. You are taking medicine here, but you are staying up until three o'clock every day and getting drunk. If you live with your partner, you are afraid that you will not be able to do it, and no matter how good the medicine is, it will not save you.

There are also many people who struggle with "whether they can completely stop taking medication" and feel that as long as they continue to take medication, it is not considered recovery. In fact, it is really unnecessary. For example, many patients in their 50s and 60s have naturally aged blood vessels and cannot return to the state they were in when they were 20 years old. As long as they take half a pill as needed, they can have a satisfactory sex life without affecting the relationship between the couple. This is considered a clinical cure. If you insist on pursuing "complete drug withdrawal and cure", you will easily be deceived by false advertisements on the Internet, not only costing money, but also damaging your body.

To put it bluntly, asking "how long will it take to recover" is actually meaningless. You must first figure out why you have the problem, and whether you are willing to cooperate in adjusting your living habits and follow the doctor's advice for treatment. Don't believe the nonsense on the Internet that "impotence and premature ejaculation can be cured in 7 days". If there is a problem, go to a regular hospital for a checkup first. It will be much more useful than searching blindly for half a month.