What's a doctor supposed to do when someone calls about a four hour erection from Cialis?
Just saw a Cialis commercial saying that men should call their doctors if an erection lasts for over four hours. ' Wondering what a doctor is supposed to do about that over the phone? I've been on call many a late night for cancer medicine, but I don't know what I would advise over the phone for a chronic penile erection. Is there a medication to reverse the effects of drugs like Cialis? Perhaps an alpha-adrenergic agonist. I can't imagine a surgical procedure to fix this problem. Maybe Denisedds will see this - she knows some urology. I could look up priapism, but I thought it would be fun to float this question on YA.
Anonymous2010-01-09T18:31:02Z
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I imagine that it isn't fun. The problem is that blood gets stuck in the penis (priamrism) causing that long-term and very dangerous (even though possibly funny) condition.
The urologist will stick a needle into the side of the poor bastard's penis, and then draws blood directly from the cavernosa (aspiration). The same needle is often used to inject a saline solution back into the guy's penis (irrigation), which can help flush out the remaining blood. Aspiration and irrigation work around 25 percent to 30 percent of the time. Doctors can also inject drugs that constrict the arteries and cut off penile blood flow. These injections are given every few minutes for about an hour.
In rare cases, a really bad erection problem will resist both aspiration, irrigation and drug injections. So now the urologist performs a surgical shunt. This always sounds painful. The simplest type of shunt involves cutting a small hole in the head of the penis, then opening oval windows in the tips of the cavernosa. When the surface incision is closed, the blood trapped in the erectile tissue drains out through the unaffected penile veins. A more involved shunt procedure involves cutting a nearby but unrelated vein and attaching one end of it to the base of the penis.
So my recommendation, also considering that more than 38 men have completely and permanently lost their eyesight? Stay away form the ED treatments.
Brag approximately?? Are you severe?? If that happens, you have a situation referred to as priapism. you will possibly prefer to the two see your physician or pass to an ER. The erection might prefer to be drained. Letting it pass could have severe edge effects, which incorporate yet no longer constrained to everlasting erectile ailment. EMT