Viagra, Levitra and Cialis. These are the three drugs out there being prescribed for men with erectile dysfunction. All three help increase blood flow to the penis, in order for an erection to occur. When you read the common and not so common side effects that these meds might bring on, the one that caught my attention was the possibility of PRIAPISM. You can read about it here:http://my.webmd.com/content/article/57/66242.htm?lastselectedguid={5FE84E90-BC77-4056-A91C-9531713CA348}
It seems to me that once a middle aged man (yeah, so?) has an orgasm his libido runs down the street and turns the corner…not to return for a measurable amount of time (like a week, in my case…your sexual prowess may differ). Anyhow, the warning states, and I am paraphrasing because all three change the wording around, that, if your erection lasts more than FOUR hours, you should seek immediate medical help…and the site I sent you to, above, offers some scary solutions. I think, IMO, that, after an orgasm, and the little guy was still the big guy, for an inordinate period of time, I’d get nervous real quick. At the 2 hour and three hour marks, I’d be driving myself to the ER. But, hold on, the warning states FOUR HOURS. Do I sit and clock watch? Is three hours and fifty nine minutes okay, and, one minute later, lasting damage may occur? What and why is this an arbitrary number? …and that’s my question.
Perhaps 2 or 3 hours isn’t enough to do damage?
I would image there is some threshold being broken when passing 4 hours. I hope I never find out what it is.
Maybe after 4 hours it turns into a pumpkin.
The first couple of hours are devoted to, “Gee, I can still do it. She is so pleased.”
The third and fourth hours are devoted to, “Ya know this is getting mildly annoying …”
After four hours, the change is dramatic, “I have to work in the morning! I need my sleep and this damned kickstand won’t go down so I cannot roll over and get some sleep!”
Isn’t it called priapism? I think bad things can happen after 4 hours–it has to do with blood flow.
Further research on WebMD indicates this is correct, but this is usually without sexual stimulation. So if it’s a four hour erection while you’re doing something, maybe it’s ok???
I think the tagline for the Cialis ad is ‘When the time is right, you’ll be ready’.
To which I add, ‘three hours after the time is no longer right, you’ll still be ready’.
I suspect that the pharmaceutical companies would err on the side of caution in that warning, and any damage wouldn’t occur until well past the 4 hour mark. If some guy did as you suggested and waited 3h59m and suffered permanent damage to the Little Terrorist, he could sue the company. I’d bet there would’n’t be any damage until 12~18 hours.
If any of you guys out there think that an erection that just won’t go down is a good thing, try this experiment:
Obtain an erection. Any way you like. Then take some fine wire and wrap it tightly around the base of your penis. You’ll soon note that the erection becomes even more firm, and your member takes on a rather dusky color. This is your cue to wrap more fine wire around the base, even more tightly. Now just leave it there. Voila! a permanent erection. At least until it turns black and falls off, which is what will happen in the case of priapism. And believe me, you won’t feel like using this type of erection for sex.
(Note to all readers: Do NOT actually perform this experiment or the penis will be at great risk for damage or even fall off!) :rolleyes:
It is uncommon for drugs such as Cialis, Viagra, etc. to actually cause a priapism. They generally make it physiologically possible for men who can’t get erections for organic reasons to be able to get better ones when properly aroused after taking the med.
If you do find yourself possessing an erection after no longer really wanting to, while under the influence of erection-enhancing meds, consider trying this: Cold compresses along with elevation of the turgid appendage (keeping it higher than the heart). It may help. Generally, as long as you actually haven’t wrapped any wire around the base of said appendage, you’ll have more than a 4 hour window for it to subside before querying your local medical provider.
Individual mileage may vary. If you’re concerned, ask your own doctor in a timely fashion and don’t rely on medical advice from a message board.
QtM, MD
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You can also try massaging the corpus cavernosum to force out stagnant blood and invite fresh blood in. I won’t go into specific methods since the same techniques are used for self-gratification… and we wouldn’t want to confuse issues, would we?
Or have your girlfriend/wife/SO do it for you. Tell her (or him!) that your little soldier needs CPR.
/confusing the issue
PS - I almost submitted ‘corpus callosum’ above… heh.
I’ve heard certain drugs, especially those that act as alpha-2 adrenergic receptor antagonists (and perhaps are also serotonin receptor antagonists). This would include trazodone, nefazodone, mirtazapine, among perhaps others (I don’t think yohimbine has any affinity for 5-HT receptors). I guess drugs such as these, by blocking noradrenergic neuron autoreception, cause elevated levels of norepinephrine (directly) and maybe dopamine (indirectly) to be secreted in the brain. Add to this some blockade of the 5-HT2C heteroreceptors, and you’re shutting down some of the systems that your brain normally turns on during the “refractory period”. I’ve wondered how Viagra could give people four-hour erection, since it just helps Mr. Happy get stiff without impacting arousability or other neurological aspects of sexual response. However, a bet a combo. of Viagra plus some of these other meds could be a prescription for perma-boner for the unlucky few.
I remember a certain weekend camping trip with a pretty young thing. This was probably my last serious dating before I first had sex. Had a rock solid boner for the entire weekend. I walked funny for at least two days afterward. So, you can go for an extended time without permanent damage. I just wonder how long it takes before it something bad happens.
Remember when Sting claimed tantric yoga helped him keep it up for 8 hours or some ridiculous thing like that? Even then I was like :rolleyes:, but now I see, from the medical warnings, his lingam would have turned a funny color and fallen off if he made a habit of such marathon lovemaking.
“Higher than the Heart”? Good Lord, how big does it get?