Anxiety can have a HUGE effect on performance- especially on young men who have come to view sex as something performance based instead of an opportunity for becoming close to someone. You seem to be alluding to the time spent having ED as something unexplainable.
Well, it started when I was 15 or 16, say 16 as I can remember at 15 having erections. At 14, I had my first sexual experience which was successful. By 16, it dawned on me as weird that I had no more sexual feelings to a very pretty girl that was close to me. At 17, I had my 2nd encounter with a high school girlfriend several times, though my penis never became fully hard or erect. Since then, I avoided a lot of relationships but did start using ED drugs which I use to buy in Mexico prior to having a prescription.
I did witness abuse as a child, though why the lack of morning wood? I was raised to see sex as dirty, my mother use to degrade my father as a pervert. At 14-15 I had crippling anxiety levels which would probably raise my blood pressure to over 200. This was when my problem started if I can remember that far back.
Now, 15-years later, I'm 30. Finally got in to see a trained sex urologist. He tells me I have low testosterone and a venous leak, though he feels based on what I just wrote about the abuse and anxiety, the sexual problem could be from low T- though we don't know yet and I don't see him against until Sept 2 (he took about 15 other tests by blood and a urinalysis that we will see the results of then.)
It is unexplainable to me, such a rare of rare conditions? As I told the urologist, I see this as something that should be considered as happening to a 15-year old, not 30 year old, who otherwise has had a very healthy life and lived a relatively healthy and active lifestyle.
The only conditions that I can find that could cause this are: Hypoganadasm, Pituatory Gland problems, cardiac problems and diabetes. I don't think I have cardiac problems, I can run a marathon and the only problem might be my knee after ten miles that starts getting sore.
There's nothing to prohibit anxiety ED from compounding itself over time- especially if successive attempts at sexual contact or even "test based" masturbation yields increasingly frustrating results. Unless an effort is made to extricate one's self from the problem, why would you assume that something as traumatic as ED would resolve itself- especially when the root cause has yet to be addressed.
I don't have that anxiety anymore, I haven't had it for many years, but when I had it.. it was bad, I use to go to the hospital and they'd give me a benzodiazipene. Do you really think there is any example of this causing long term damage? I try to think back to even my soccer playing days, would being kicked in the balls do this? Even cycling, I use to do so much as a teenager, but it seems this problem can only be temporary.
It's arguable, but it's been my finding that most men who complain about ED are hampered to some degree by anxiety. Even in cases where the initial incident was caused by something physical, anxiety can easily take over and allow the ED to continue long after any injuries are healed.
In long term cases, conquering the anxiety isn't enough. One has to be reconditioned to see the sexual response as something positive and not something to get alarmed or disinterested about- which can happen if the anxiety becomes chronic.
I think you are right here, I try to do this. Its been so long that even if my problem were ever fixed, I would doubt its success and probably still feel obligated to turn to ed drugs or have a fear of failure while having sex.
I've never heard of anxiety causing venous leaks. There are many cases of men who've suffered from anxiety who have "epiphanies"- usually in the form of a positive sexual experience, who see their anxiety based ED issues resolve from one moment to the next. Now, I can see how long tern anxiety might contribute to valve weaknesses due to disuse.
I was told anxiety can even cause canker sores in the mouth.
Long term anxiety is something I think should be considered in my case, the repercussions of it even if they are gone now, it was something that I suffered from for years as a teenager.
