How long does it take to treat sexual dysfunction?

For mild and purely psychogenic problems, significant improvement can be seen in as quickly as 2-3 weeks. If it is an organic problem caused by the underlying disease, or a mixed situation of superimposed physical and psychological problems, the conditioning cycle may take 3 months to half a year, or even follow the treatment rhythm of the underlying disease for one or two years. This is the first question many people ask when they first come for consultation. I usually give them a vaccination first. Don’t come with the obsession of “guaranteed in one month”. The more you look at the day every day to calculate the progress, the greater the psychological pressure will be, which will easily slow down the recovery speed.

Last month, a 27-year-old young man came to the hospital. He had just been married for 3 months. He was too nervous to have sex for the first time and failed. After that, he was afraid of losing the relationship every time. The more he was afraid, the worse he became. I gave him two cognitive counseling sessions and chatted with his wife for half an hour. I asked them not to take sex as a task during this period and to find more relaxed dating situations. After returning home for a full 3 weeks, the young man sent a message to announce the good news, saying that everything was completely normal.

But not everyone can be so fast. I used to have a 42-year-old elder brother who has a history of diabetes for almost 10 years. He already has mild atherosclerosis and poor blood supply to the cavernous body. In addition, he usually stays up late and drinks heavily every day while running business. His androgen level is higher than The normal value is almost one-third lower than normal, so there is no need to rush. We must first follow the endocrinology department to stabilize blood sugar, and then cooperate with the conditioning program to improve blood supply and adjust hormone levels. We must also control tobacco and alcohol as much as possible. After nearly 5 months of conditioning, we have just seen a relatively obvious improvement.

Nowadays, the opinions on this matter on the Internet are quite extreme. They either boast to the extreme and say that "taking such and such medicine will cure it in three days", or pour cold water on it and say that the disease cannot be cured at all and it is all about paying an IQ tax. In fact, neither of the two is to the point. Most of those that claim to be effective within a few days are quick-acting products with added Viagra-like ingredients. They are considered temporary relief at most, not conditioning at all. If temporary effects are regarded as "cure", it will easily delay the solution of the root problem. ； As for those who cannot be cured at all, most of them either fail to find the right cause and take medicine blindly, or during the treatment period, they spend three days fishing and two days drying nets, taking medicine for treatment while staying up late and drinking heavily every day. No matter how good the plan is, they cannot withstand the disease.

To put it bluntly, conditioning sexual function is like raising a succulent that has a problem. If it has been waterlogged recently due to too much water, just move it out to the sun for two days and let it ventilate, and you will be able to recover in a few days.； If most of the roots are rotten, you have to prune the roots first, change the soil, and slowly control the cultivation. You will not see any improvement within half a year. If you rush to fertilize the plant, it will die faster. Moreover, many people's problems nowadays are of a mixed type. Originally, they were just minor physical problems, but in the end, they frightened themselves and forced themselves to suppress psychological barriers. The two problems overlapped, and they had to take care of both sides during the treatment, and the cycle would naturally be longer.

I often tell people who come for consultation, don’t hold the calendar every day to calculate how long it will take to get better, first change the bad habits that need to be changed, stay up less late, go out for a few more runs, and don’t scare yourself when there is a small problem. Many people don’t wait until their preset “expiration date” and find that the problem has been solved without even realizing it.