How long does it take to treat sexual dysfunction?

For mild psychological triggers, most symptoms can be significantly improved or even fully recovered within 2 weeks to 3 months.； Those with underlying diseases, organic injuries or long-term psychological problems often require intervention from 3 months to 1 year or even longer to gradually stabilize.

I have been in the andrology clinic for almost 8 years, and this is almost the first thing every patient asks when they sit down. Last week, I met a 26-year-old young man who failed to have sex with his girlfriend for the first time. He spent three days at home reading online articles. The more he read, the more panicked he became. He thought that he was a waste for the rest of his life. His hands were shaking while holding the test report. I checked his hormone and erectile function monitoring results, and they were all normal. He was just nervous. I gave him half an hour of counseling and asked him to stop taking this matter as a task and to get in touch with his girlfriend more. I came for a follow-up visit this week and said with a smile that there was no problem. If you look at this situation, the full conditioning cycle is only 10 days. Many people don’t believe it.

Of course, not all psychological problems heal quickly. Two years ago, there was a 35-year-old patient who had been taught by his parents that "sex is dirty" since he was a child. He was caught masturbating in adolescence and was beaten. The pain left behind has been buried for almost 20 years. He has been married for 10 years and has not been able to have normal sexual intercourse. In this case, he had to cooperate with psychiatric psychological intervention, and he also had to bring his lover to make cognitive adjustments. After more than 7 months of adjustment, he successfully completed sexual intercourse for the first time.

If it is found to be an organic problem, the cycle will definitely not be so optimistic. For example, many middle-aged patients have had diabetes and high blood pressure for many years, and complications have occurred in blood vessels and nerves, affecting erectile function. For such patients, underlying diseases must be controlled first. Different schools have different intervention ideas. Western medicine generally cooperates with PDE5 inhibitor drugs to assist in improving function. Generally, an evaluation cycle is 3 months. If the basic disease is well controlled, a relatively stable state can be maintained in about half a year. ； The idea of ​​​​TCM tends to be overall replenishing, soothing the liver and regulating qi, nourishing the liver and kidneys, and ventilating the blood. The treatment course is generally longer, and most of them will take more than half a year to slowly see stable effects. There is no absolute advantage or disadvantage between the two options. Only the one that suits you will be useful.

To be honest, the slow recovery of many people is not caused by the disease, but by themselves. A few years ago, there was a 42-year-old private company owner who suffered from mild erectile dysfunction. He originally took medicine on time and adjusted his work schedule, and he was almost healed in 2 months. He was so anxious to see results that he secretly bought the "7-day aphrodisiac pill" sold on WeChat Moments. After taking it for half a month, he developed priapism. He went to the hospital overnight for treatment, and finally it took more than half a year to return to normal. Nowadays, there are still many institutions soliciting customers under the guise of "one week of radical treatment" and "30 days of recovery". It's really hard to believe that in the end, most of the money is spent, and the problem becomes more serious.

Occasionally, I will encounter patients who take the "standard course of treatment" on the Internet and ask why others are fine after 2 months, but there is no change after 3 months of adjustment. How can there be any standard for this thing? If you stay up late every day, drink a lot, socialize 8 times a week, and never leave your hand with a cigarette, can you recover at the same speed as someone who exercises regularly every day and follows the doctor's advice on dietary restrictions? There are also people whose relationship is inherently bad. They quarrel and have cold wars every day. One person is trying to adjust their sexual function, but the other person is dumped when they get home. No matter how good the plan is, it is useless.

If you really encounter a problem in this area, there is actually no need to insist on "how long it will take to get better." First go to a regular hospital for a comprehensive examination to find out whether you have a psychological problem or a physical problem, whether you have any underlying diseases, and whether your partner can cooperate. These are the core factors that determine the speed of recovery. If you can really follow the doctor's instructions and cooperate well, even if the problem is complicated, it will definitely be solved much faster than blindly searching for information and taking folk remedies on your own.