Erectile Dysfunction Vacuum Pump Therapy

In any discussion of ways of coping with erectile dysfunction, vacuum pump therapy is high on the list, along with medication and self-administered injections.

Which of these, if any, you choose probably depends on just how badly you want to have a hard penis that you can insert and what you are willing to do and endure to be able to get it.

After nerve sparing prostate surgery, the surgeon told me not to worry because it is now possible to give a dead man and erection. Given my own experience with the vacuum pump I guess that that is a true statement and I do appreciate the encouragement at a time of worry, but there is more to the story. (Isn't there always?)

The Cornell University Sexual Medicine Program has provided an excellent resource on the whole topic of the erectile dysfunction vacuum pump

If you go to the link and read the article (I recommend it or another similar from a similar source), note especially the warning about buying one of the vacuum pumps on the internet to save money.

Make no mistake, the FDA approved versions are expensive! The potential problem is that one of these things might create too strong a vacuum and damage blood vessels, so the certification that the particular one you buy isn't too strong could save adding another problem on top of erectile dysfunction itself.

OK, it works, but is it a good solution?

Whether the vacuum pump is a good solution for you or not probably depends most on your experience of using it. It will give you are hard penis . . . at a price.

Setting the thing up and using it is quite a rigamarole. If you think putting on a condom breaks the flow of the sexual experience, wait until you try one of these.

Depending on the size of your penis and the shape of your pubic area, . . . getting a tight seal, pumping up the vacuum, and putting on the constricting ring at the base of your penis that keeps the blood in after you release the vacuum can be quite uncomfortable.

The communication and cooperation that this whole process calls for may be quite a stressful challenge for your intimate relationship, . . . but of course so is the whole experience of coping with erectile dysfunction. Cope with it here or somewhere else.

There are a number of ways to deal with this problem. They all have one or more drawbacks from my experience.

Whatever you do, my advice is that doing something is better than nothing and that working this through with your partner has benefits that go way beyond the immediate issue.

SBI!