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Blood pressure medications are an essential part of many people’s lives. These medications can protect the health and wellbeing of people with a wide variety of cardiovascular problems. However, most medications have potential side effects which need to be carefully considered. It’s quite common for lifesaving medications to, in turn, decrease our quality of life. For example, blood pressure medications and erectile dysfunction often pair. 

 Blood pressure medications typically operate by modifying the behavior of our circulatory system. Unfortunately, erectile dysfunction is often caused by abnormalities in someone’s circulation. It’s easy to see why many blood pressure medications can cause erectile dysfunction. Any time we change the behavior of the circulatory system to be easier on our heart, we run the risk of impacting other systems that rely on it. But are there any blood pressure medications that won’t cause erectile issues?

 Thankfully several blood pressure medications have a lower chance of causing erectile dysfunction. These medications are typically grouped into special classes depending on their mechanism of action. Each of these medication classes lowers blood pressure through less direct means. This means that the medications can often directly act on the causes of high blood pressure rather than specifically regulating the circulatory system as a whole. This helps sidestep many of the issues which trigger erectile dysfunction. 

ACE Inhibitors

 ACE (Angiotensin-converting enzyme) inhibitors are among the better-known classes of medication which can lower blood pressure without dramatically increasing the risk of erectile dysfunction. ACE inhibitors function by altering the conversion of angiotensin enzymes. 

 Angiotensin- angiotensin II is created from angiotensin when enzymes are converted. Angiotensin II will, in turn, negatively impact circulation in two ways. The first method involves directly causing vasoconstriction within the circulatory system. Its secondary effect comes from increasing the body’s levels of another vasoconstrictor called bradykinin. 

 ACE inhibitors are sometimes used to treat erectile dysfunction in people without any issues with their blood pressure. ACE inhibitors can reduce vasoconstriction by simply interfering with the conversion of angiotensin I into angiotensin II. This restores blood pressure to a healthier level while also reducing heart strain. And all of this will typically help decrease the risk of erectile dysfunction. 

 Of course, it’s essential to keep in mind that specific medications within any of these groups can act differently from each other. For example, one ACE inhibitor, lisinopril, was once suspected of causing erectile dysfunction. But on investigating these events, it was found that erectile dysfunction and lisinopril only occurred in about one out of every hundred patients. 

Calcium Channel Blockers

 We all need calcium as part of a healthy diet. However, calcium can also harm our cardiovascular system. Your heart and arteries reject calcium due to calcium channel blockers. By doing so, the calcium channel blockers can prevent calcium from causing vasoconstriction and other unwanted effects. But at the same time, this method of helping the circulatory system won’t negatively impact a man’s reproductive health. 

ARB

 ARBs, also known as angiotensin II receptor blockers, target the same general areas as ACE inhibitors. The main difference is that ARBs directly halt the body’s response to angiotensin II rather than reducing its creation. This produces an effect quite similar to ACE inhibitors. And like ACE inhibitors, ARBs don’t increase our risk for erectile dysfunction. They can even help treat the condition. 

Cialis

 Cialis, also known as tadalafil, is best known as a treatment for erectile dysfunction. But it also has a limited but still notable effect on high blood pressure. Does Cialis lower blood pressure? It doesn’t typically lower blood pressure enough to rank it with the most popular options listed so far. But at the same time, Cialis can typically be combined with blood pressure medications with little to no risk of severe side effects. This makes it a solid option to further help a man’s reproductive health while fighting high blood pressure.

Online Porn Causing Young Men to Have Erectile Dysfunction, but It’s Treatable!

The idea that pornography might be harmful to the viewer is a hard pill to swallow, but more studies suggest just that. Erectile dysfunction is rapidly becoming an ailment of the masses. Whereas a decade ago, older men struggled with impotence, research shows that erectile dysfunction is now so joint that men in their twenties think that an inability to perform sexually is perfectly normal. The common link is, more often than not, internet pornography.

Man watching porn on his pc

The otherwise healthy young men seeking impotence treatment today come “from various cultures, with different levels of education, religiosity, attitudes, values, diets, marijuana use, and personalities,” says Marnia Robinson, who recently presented a collection of studies on the topic online with Psychology Today. “They have only two things in common: heavy use of today’s Internet porn and increasing need for more extreme material.

Doctors find men perfectly healthy, ED caused by Porn and Performance Anxiety.

Many have visited doctors only to find out that they are healthy and there is no reason why they can’t perform. Doctors often tell them that they suffer from performance anxiety, lacking any better diagnosis. But when even masturbation without porn or porn-induced fantasies is brutal, performance anxiety is hardly the problem.

Treating ED Caused By Performance Anxiety In Young Men

Experts say that it is not the pornography itself that is harmful; it’s the availability. With the growth of the internet, porn is never more than three clicks away, and the variation is endless. Users quickly and unknowingly train their brains to expect new partners, new positions, and more titillating scenarios. Like a drug addict, the internet pornography addict needs to continue upgrading to bigger and better porn to keep getting erections and ejaculations. In the end, no honest woman can compete; the libido drops, and impotence sets in.

Some researchers have stressed that porn is just a masturbation aid and has been around for decades. We agree on that, but in the past there were only magazines such as playboy which is considered soft-core porn. The internet has not been around for this long and now that men can watch streaming video, any fantasy is just a few clicks away. Men are constantly browsing the web looking from harder and more extreme types of porn, something they have not seen before. Each time they are doing this they are causing brain chemistry desensitization, to the point where they have developed a dependency on porn and without it they cannot get aroused and therefore no erections.

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Unlike several types of erectile dysfunction that are not reversible, porn induced ED can be. For men who have diabetes, erectile dysfunction is a condition that will need to be treated with meds. Those who have ED because of excessive porn viewing HAVE TO QUIT WATCHING PORN! We have read e-mails of some men who were able to balance both, watching a little bit of porn and still being able to get erections. However, in most cases the only way out is to STOP WATCNING PORN for at least 3 months, then check to see if things have improved and take it from there.

Once you stop watching porn you can get your erections back.

Here is an e-mail we received from a man who was able to get his erections back by slowly reversing what he had done. Very interesting testimonial, he actually did everything backwards, by going from Extreme porn, back to hardcore, then to soft core and then NONE:

I am probably one of the biggest porn addicts online. I started at the age of 16 and am now 29. I have been a virgin for the most of my twenties and practically never had sex, except with a prostitute at the age on 24, but this was only possible with the help of a cialis pill I had.

I want to share my story of how I got severe ED by only watching porn. Hopefully my story can inspire others to follow my tracks.

I started by checking out nude playboy pics online, through the yahoo images search (turning off the safe search feature). This went on for a few weeks until I discover several free hardcore porn sites (did not have a credit card at 17 LOL, free was the only way). Once I was at hardcore, playboy was a joke and I needed something more extreme. I spent at least 3 years on one particular site which updated its movie clips daily, so I always got something fresh, but that got old fast.

After time flew by I went on the search for something I had never seen before, I am not going to mention it but if you do enough research you will find whatever sexual fantasy you have, on the internet. It gets to the point where you run out of places to look. By the time I was 27 I was masturbating 3 times a day and had no social life with girls what so ever. If I saw an Asian girl at the mall or wherever, I just got home and starting looking at Asian porn, problem solved right? Wrong!

To my surprise I met a great girl at friend’s graduation and she actually asked me out. To make a long story short, we fell in love and dated for 2 months until we finally tried to get intimate. I was not expecting to get erection trouble when she stripped for me, but I was as soft as can be! This went on happing at least 3 times and I was still watching porn during all of this. After doing my research, I came to the conclusion it was the porn. I do not have much will power but was willing to do anything to keep this girl. She was at the point of breaking up with me, so I had to act fast.

I grabbed my balls and started reversing what I had done. For a whole week I first started on the initial hardcore site I used years ago, which was extreme but not as others I use to visit. I then gradually scaled back done to playboy, where I was able to get erections again no problem, after the week was over I decided, that’s it, no more porn for me. It was hard and I almost budged a few times but I was able to go for 7 more weeks with NO porn.

It did work just as I had planned, I was able to get an erection when my girl and I started making out, and the rest came naturally. I was no longer dependant on porn and am still porn free.

If you want my honest advice, then step back from porn or it will ruin your chances of ever starting a family or being intimate with girls. Gradually roll back what you have put your mine through and get back to those erections you use to get when you saw a girls thong or even a boob.

It takes time, but give your self at least 2 months and you will notice the difference.”

This is a question we have heard many times over lately. If you are a new reader and have never been to our website Edguider.com before, then let us start by saying Porn is not or niche, and EDG focuses on helping men find a proper treatment for erectile dysfunction. But wait, what about Porn and ED?

Over the past year, we have been seeing an increasing amount of searchers in our logs; one of the most common questions men are searching for is: “Can watching too much porn give you Erectile Dysfunction.” Although there has been little research or studies done on Porn and ED, many are convinced that being addicted to Porn can affect your erections when it comes down to the real thing. What we mean by this is you can only get erections by watching Porn. If you want to have casual sex, sleeping with your partner or wife can cause your erections not to function as they do with Porn.

The more Porn you watch, the worse it can get; you are unknowingly training your brain to only get aroused around images you like to see while watching Porn, be it hardcore, fetish, lesbian, etc.… Whatever you want to see is available just a few clicks away, and this is the wrong way to approach masturbation and sex. The good news is there is a way to reverse Porn induced erectile dysfunction, which we will discuss at the end of this article.

Vitaros is a cream designed to be applied directly to the tip of the penis with a single-use applicator. The active ingredient of the cream, alprostadil, also known as PDE1, has been combined with specially developed high absorption molecules that allow the alprostadil to penetrate the skin and enter the bloodstream quickly. Because the cream uses an active ingredient different from such popular erectile dysfunction therapies as Viagra or Cialis, it may very well be a good alternative for those who have had limited success with pills. It is also associated with fewer and less severe side effects. The downside is that it must be stored in a refrigerator.

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Apricus has applied for approval from Swissmedic for marketing Vitaros as an erectile dysfunction therapy in Switzerland. What has happened now is that Swissmedic has posed some additional questions. Apricus has filed an official response, thus starting Swissmedic’s 90-day review process. Suppose the answers filed by Apricus are found acceptable. In that case, a preliminary approval may be given, further questions may be asked, and Apricus would have to send in final labeling and pricing information, after which follows another 90-day review process and, hopefully, an approval. As for how many Swiss francs Apricus thinks Vitaros should sell for, they have not said, and previous statements have suggested 10-12 American dollars per dose.