Sex after prostate surgery (prostatectomy)
Prostate health problems, such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (enlarged prostate) and prostate cancer, affect hundreds of thousands of men in Spain each year.
If you've been diagnosed with a serious prostate problem, your doctor may suggest a prostatectomy, a surgical procedure in which a part O the whole from prostate.
the surgery of removal of the prostate is usually very effective to treat cancer and inflammation of the prostate (when the cancer is detected early enough), but can lead to complications.
Among them, problems of performance sexual as the dysfunction erectile and the difficulty for ejaculate normally.
Although these effects can change your experience with sex, many men can still enjoying of one life sexual full Y satisfactory after prostate surgery doing certain changes in its style of life and using medication.
How to maintain your sex life after prostate surgery
Although prostate surgery can affect your sexual performance, undergoing this surgery does not mean that you cannot have sexual relations or enjoy a satisfactory sexual life.
Although you will have to make some changes in how you have sex. This may include the use of medicines for the dysfunction erectile, devices to promote erection or start doing training of rehabilitation of pen to keep you stimulated and healthy.
If this is your case and you have recently undergone prostate surgery, it is important that you speak with your doctor.
He will surely tell you about the following options:
Oral medications for erectile dysfunction
It is common and normal experience some degree of dysfunction erectile after of one prostatectomy. In fact, some research shows that the 85% of the mens experience some level of dysfunction erectile after radical prostatectomy.
Erectile dysfunction caused by prostate surgery can sometimes be permanent. However, for Many mens it's a problem temporal that improves as your body recovers from the intervention.
After a prostatectomy the 40% - 50% of men who develop dysfunction erectile they come back at your level normal sexual function within one year.
After from surgery prostate, the dysfunction erectile usually be treated with drugs like sildenafilo (Viagra), the tadalafil (Cialis) and others.
These medications act getting better the flow sanguine to the penis Using oral medications for erectile dysfunction 75% of the mens who undergo a prostatectomy are able to achieve a erection with success.
Other drugs and devices
And at prostatectomy provokes damage in the nerves close to the penis, or if you take medication for the hypertension, angina of chest or other health problems, the use by one medicine oral for erectile dysfunction no Be the option adequate.
In this case, your doctor may recommend another type of medication or device to help you get an erection:
- Penile injection therapy. It consists of using injectable medications to stimulate blood flow and improve erections. These medications are usually given with a very small needle (5/16 inch long) to minimize discomfort. It may look unpleasant but it is relatively easy to use and has a 70% - 80% success rate.
- Vacuum devices or penis pumps. This works by creating a vacuum around the penis, drawing blood into the penis and allowing it to become erect.
Habits and lifestyle changes
Hay changes what you may do in your style of life for favor the flow blood and improve your erectile health:
- change habits food to keep a nutrition and a weight healthy
- Do exercise regularly for to improve the Health cardiovascular
- Let of to smoke and consuming products with nicotine
- Limit the consumption of alcohol
Although it is little bit probable what these changes treat for yourself dysfunction erectile related to prostatectomy, contrubuyen a increase the flow sanguine, to improve the Health overall and to improve the function sexual.
Felix Monsalve on
Estoy próximo a someterme a una sirugia radical de prostata mi temor es sobre la extirpación de los ganglios y también por el esfinter tengo miedo
Mario Humberto on
Hace 15 días tuve una cirujia RTUP y no se si ya puedo tener relaciones y tomar viagra o cilis ya puedo tener relaciones? O sexo oral no me afecta en mi operación?
Gabriela on
Mi esposo fue operado de próstata y se la extirparon , ahora no tiene elección y está frustrado obviamente, el puede tomar bio prost?o existe algún otro medicamento que lo ayude?
Jose Luis Alonso Davila on
Al tercer dia de mi cirugía estoy con erecciones diaro esto fue el 2 de diciembre de este año mi pregunta es ya puedo tener relaciones o cuanto tiempo tiene que pasar