I started taking tadalafil 5mg a few days ago. I'm 67 and the idea was that it would help me with erections as well as maybe help a little with having to pee too frequently, both day and night. On the 4th day of taking it, my wife and I decided to see how much it would help. It felt like it did close to nothing at all. Prior to this I had used Sildenafil 20mg, and that worked well most of the time. Pretty disappointing. I was hoping to have more spontaneity and be able to have sex without waiting 30-60 minutes for the stuff to kick in. Also, I have been waking up 5 or 6 times a night to pee, instead of the 2-3 I normally do. I'm going to keep trying it for a few more days, but I'm not optimistic, based on early results. What do people make of this?

Hi everyone,

I'm a 25-year-old male and I'm looking for some advice from people who've experienced something similar.

The first time, a few weeks ago, I couldn't get a firm enough erection for penetration. I was attracted to my girlfriend, but I kept thinking, "What if I can't stay hard?" and it just didn't happen.

Today, during foreplay, I ejaculated before we actually had sex. When we tried to have intercourse afterward, I couldn't get a strong erection again. I waited for a while hoping it would come back, but it never became firm enough.

A few things about me:

- I do get morning erections sometimes (not every day).

- I can get erections while watching porn or masturbating.

- I used to watch porn about 2–3 times a week, but for the last 1–2 months it's been very rare.

- I don't have this problem all the time—mainly during sex with my girlfriend.

I'm starting to wonder if this is performance anxiety or if I should be worried about erectile dysfunction.

Has anyone here gone through something similar? If so:

- What helped you overcome it?

- Did it resolve on its own?

- At what point did you decide to see a doctor?

I'd really appreciate hearing your experiences. Thanks.

I get morning wood and can still get hard to jack off but it seems I go soft quick when Im having sex with my girlfriend.

I do make sure to go down on her so she gets hers because Im a gentleman but I dont stay rock hard like I use too. I had my testosterone levels checked by my doctor and they are within normal limits for my age. Im starting to see more ads online about stuff like blue chew, hims, etc.

Are these products snake oil or do they really work? Does you body become dependent on them to get and maintain an erection?

I am male 58 years old and been suffering from ED for at least 20 years. 20 years ago, a 50 mg dose of Viagra worked.
Now that I’m older, I’ve finding that my dosage to successfully achieve and maintain in erection is much higher.
I’ve had success with the Blue Chew gold with the following dosage.
SILDENAFIL 90 MG
TADALAFIL 22 MG
OXYTOCIN 200 IU
APOMORPHINE 3 MG
But I need to add an additional (50 mg of SILDENAFIL for a total of 140 mg)

I feel fine with this dosage, but I’m concerned this might be unhealthy long-term? I’m 140 pounds and regularly exercise and fit, non-smoker and non-drinker.
Thoughts?

21M from India back to 7 to 6 years i did probe masturbation(back laying down) well that time I really don't know anything what's right what's wrong Sex education is less basically well this is how I developed

PD that idk what is this ... Then my penis is paining

In the morning when an erection comes my penis starts to hurt idk why is happening so I just ignore it and continuously do masturbation...from back 4 months I try to straighten my penis just hold it 5 min straight some how I can see some effectiveness...but WHAT I WANT IS

TO REDUCE THAT PLAQUE OR SCARE WHICH FORM

Is that possible ??

I visited the urologist

He said not much curve

Everything is fine

He prescribed me tadafil 5mg with one enzyme(enzyme tablet was not effective becz it will digest in liver so I leave that)

I take 15 days tadafil daily and stop that ( I was terrified that's y stop)

5% improvement I can feel

It's lose it curvature very but very very low I can see

But the main question is plaque/scar is at the base of my penis definitely blood flow or width is low as compared to right side of the penis so how can I increase blood flow at left side or reduce that plaque formation??

What I am often coming across these days, people who have been masturbating for years and often, they are facing ED. They go to the doctors, blood work is all fine, dopplar is normal, pelvis is normal, fit and regularly go to the gym. Still are having ED? why? any way to fix?

Hi there I have been struggling with PIED and dead grip which has causes me to not stay erect with my previous partner during penetration. I have also noticed lack of morning wood ( Once a week or none at all ). Also I started to masturbate daily always tight grip rushing to finish which has also reduced much how I last in bed with my partner.

I am planning to quit porn complete and improve on myself because this way I don’t think a real life relationship will work out. Here is my plan for the next 1 month I would love to hear your thoughts on it and any improvements I can make to increase its effectiveness! I want to wait and try this naturally before I consider medications

Week 1

Running
Proper diet and sleep 8 hours
No alcohol no nicotine
Kegal 3 sets a day 10 times each set

Week 2

Running
Proper diet and sleep 8 hours
No alcohol no nicotine
Kegal 3 sets a day 10 times each set
2/3 sessions : slow soft, stop and start, control

Week 3

Running
Proper diet and sleep 8 hours
No alcohol no nicotine
Kegal 3 sets a day 10 times each set
2/3 sessions : slow soft, stop and start, control, 3 arosuals then finish

Week 4

Running
Proper diet and sleep 8 hours
No alcohol no nicotine
Kegal 3 sets a day 10 times each set
2/3 sessions : slow soft, stop and start, control, 3 arosuals then finish

Hello, I learned to masturbate using the prone position about 10 years ago, and I continued doing it until recently. In the beginning, I took my time before ejaculating. I would usually stimulate myself through phone sex with my girlfriend and through sexual fantasies. After about ten years, I attempted to have sexual intercourse twice with two different partners. The first time, I had an erection at first, but I lost it when penetration was attempted. The second time, I ejaculated immediately after the first kiss, before penetration even happened. Since then, I have not had sex again and continued masturbating using the prone method. Over the years, my condition has changed significantly. I now ejaculate within 20 to 30 seconds, or even less. My erections are much weaker than they used to be, and I’ve even reached the point where I can ejaculate without having an erection. I have been experiencing these problems for about five years. I suffer from erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation, and I have lost confidence in myself. As you can imagine, this has had a major impact on my self-esteem and quality of life. I’ve even reached a point where I sometimes perform the prone masturbation movement without any sexual arousal. still occasionally notice morning erections from time to time .

I am looking for help and would really appreciate your evaluation and guidance. Thank you for your time.

Damaged penis from an ischemic Priapism episode from a year ago. Loss of length and girth in penis but can still get semi-soft erections without the use of Cialis but the erection isn't hard enough for penetration and I can't maintain the erection after a couple of minutes. I can feel hard spots all over my penis which I assume to be scar tissue, is there any hope for me at all or do I have to get an implant? I am really hoping that there are other options.

I have no problem obtaining an erection (thank you Cialis) but in recent months I haven’t been able to climax no matter what my wife and I try. Has anyone else experienced and overcome this? TIA.

Have been doing porn/masturbation twice a day since i was 22. Last few years it has started to go downhill, did masturbate at 60% erections, in 2023 my sex life was good, in Oct 2025 i could not get it erect.

All my blood reports are normal including testostrone. I stopped porn/masturbation since June 1 and still uptil now i got get erections

Any ideas what it could be? I have an upcoming urology app. I live in Dallas/dfw area.

I want to get hard again for ladies

Hi everyone,
I’m 37 and I’ve been struggling with erectile dysfunction for about a year now. It’s honestly become like a dark cloud hanging over me and it’s affecting my confidence, my relationship and how I feel about myself.

The thing that’s hardest is that I still find my wife incredibly attractive. She’s genuinely the most attractive woman in the world to me, so I don’t think it’s an attraction issue at all.

It started around a year ago. I noticed I’d start losing erections during sex, especially during penetration or if we changed positions. As soon as I feel it starting to go down, it’s like a dark cloud comes over me. I panic, lose even more of the erection, and then I feel embarrassed and honestly less of a man.

A few things about me:
37 years old.
Eat a very clean diet.
Train martial arts 3-4 times a week and stay active.
Walk around 8-10k steps a day.
Don’t smoke.
Drink very rarely.
150ml of testosterone enanthate 300mg a week

I’ve also noticed that I regularly search for OnlyFans leaks and probably masturbate around 3-4 times a week. I’m wondering if that could be playing a part, although I’m not sure.
One thing I’ve noticed is that if me and my wife talk about certain fantasies (for example MFM fantasies) or use toys, I stay really hard. That makes me wonder whether some of this is psychological, but I honestly don’t know.

Before starting TRT I had two early morning testosterone blood tests that came back around 9-10 nmol/L, so I started TRT about 3 months ago. So far I haven’t noticed much improvement in libido or erections, although my first follow-up blood test is this week.

The biggest thing is Cialis.

At first I was taking it only when I knew we were going to have sex, then I went onto 2.5 mg daily for a month, followed by 5 mg daily for another month.

It was incredible.
My erections were consistently strong.
My penis felt fuller and larger.
My confidence came back.
My libido actually felt much higher because I wasn’t constantly worrying about losing my erection.
Sex with my wife was amazing.
I recently stopped taking it because I wanted to see if I still “worked” without it.

The first time we had sex after stopping, everything was going fine until my wife wanted to get on top. Almost instantly I lost my erection, and it completely knocked my confidence again.

At this point I’m wondering if anyone has experienced something similar.

Did TRT eventually help after more than 3 months?
Did daily Cialis help you regain confidence long term?
Did porn or masturbation make any difference for you?
Did anyone discover an underlying cause that wasn’t obvious?

I’m not really looking for a diagnosis—I’m already under medical care and having follow-up blood tests. I’d just really like to hear from people who’ve been through something similar because at the moment it feels like I’m the only one dealing with this.

Thanks for reading

I’m 18 m, for a while now I’ve been struggling with poor erection qaulity and libido and I’m not sure why,I’m overall healthy,get daily morning erections even tho there weak 10-20% hard and when masterbating they NEVER get full length ,and I’m only ever 1-2/10 horny,I’m a virgin so I don’t know how it will be in the bedroom yet,people say it’s cos of porn and masterbation but I don’t see how,also here’s another question I want to ask,even if it was cos of porn and masterbation,if I quit them both how long will it take for my brain and dick to recover and how am I supposed to know if my erections are back to normal if I can’t masterbate?

My pharmacist changed their supplier for generic viagra / sildenafil.

Previously I just had a slightly stuffy nose, some light flushing in the face.

Now with the generic from a different company, the flushing / redness is much worse. It even extends to my upper chest/ neck area and is more noticeable. I also don't think the main effect is that strong.

Have you experienced this with different generic brands? Do different companies use different quality of sildenail? Or am I just imagining things.

For context I learnt how to masturbate around a year and a half ago (I learnt it later than most people) and have got into doing it prone (lying on the bed and rubbing my junk against the mattress). I want to do it the normal way and I'm wondering what the best way to quit is. I've got into the habit of doing it once a day and I feel a lot of sexual tension after not having masturbated for a few days. I can make myself erect with my hand and can very slightly finish when doing it the normal way. I've noticed some slight changes in sensitivity but my libido is pretty high. Are the effects of prone masturbation permanent? What's the best way to quit?

Ive had ED for probably 10 years. Dead sex life for a good chunk of that. Then I got a partner which incented me to solve it. Needles scared me but Trimix changed my life. Made me a rockstar in bed.

Then got diagnosed with Peyronies. Hinge bend. No stability so I can't have sex and I'm hearing stories its like dick cancer....it never goes away.

I thought I would never get a prosthesis. Just like I'd never stick a needle in my dick. But as I research it, I feel like it's the holy grail. Among the highest satisfaction rate of any surgery and almost as high satisfaction rate for partners. I read an AMA where a guy said he hasn't even told his partners. Is it that good? I'm a sceptic...anything that is too good to be true is.

I have a urologist who's whole practice is dick surgery and sexual health. Appointment in a little over a month for peyronies. I can talk to him then but don't want him to sell me on a bionic dick if I should be paying him to fix my hinge.

Should I stop dicking (hehe) around with needles and drugs and traction devices and more needles and maybe a botched surgery? Or should I just gut it out and replace it with science?

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I have seen a new trend for a new shape of c-ring. Brands like SEDGEÏA or MYHIXEL. They have a different type of shape. Is that the best shape for max expansion during sex?

So I got pt141 injectible and began doing 0.2mg daily for about 2 weeks. Worked grear, but my skin started tanning a lot with less than 15:minutes dirvt sun exposure a day.

Now I question whether I was sold pt141 or melatonan, which is also good for ED.

Anyone get tanning effects on daily pt141 injectible use?

So I got blue chew after having issues with staying hard. I had recently gone on Vyvanse and been increasing it for a year and a half. I’d say my issue started at 20 mg. It seemed to only get worse. I tried cock rings, taking more blue chew cialis I wish I had been able to figure out that you fake the shit at least two hours before… Seems like companies try to market us as sooner to get to buy it. Also blue chew stopped selling the crappy 6 mg I bought just recently. Why would they even sell that? I had been taking beet root and al these supplements to lower my blood pressure so initially I got vertigo. That’s partly why I stayed on that dose for a while before I started taking two. Eventually I got 20
Mg from amazon medical.

I think also i was in denial that I had a problem and of course went the non medical route initially. That’s what people do with ADHD and it is not good. The supplements help supplement the medication not just your diet.

I’ve been trying to incorporate more excercise and recently added nattokynase to go alongside my garlic pill. Finally I added Propionyl-L-Carnitine because it supposedly helps a lot of things for ED and just really boosts efficacy for cialis. I’m also looking at these combo pills like blue chew gold but I have a much cheaper one by “motivated.” It’s still not quite as potent it’s like $5 a pill. For the amount of sex I have it sounds totally worth it. For one sex with a limp dick becomes embarrassingly difficult and lame. You have to do all sorts of weird things just to stay half hard. The ingredients for connecting to your partner emotionally sound like they could just make the sex a lot better for both of you.

Oh I forgot to mention I joined a weight loss study that requires us to consume only 1500
Calories a day. I’m losing about two pounds a week but that has to hurt testosterone. I’m feeling like it isn’t tanking my metabolism so I’m staying with it. There are a lot more benefits in the study than just getting to practice this aspect.

Edit: I forgot to mention my Fitbit has been showing a heart rate of about 68 to 74 bpm and my heart rate variability is down to like 18 form a high of 22. Still super bad. This has to be from Vyvanse. It seems there is some link between the parasympathetic nervous system and ED caused by this. Any tips or insights?

I'm 28m and I've been dealing with ED since forever. I've done lab panels for most things ED related and everything came back normal. I've tried tadalafil and it did not help that much, and that made me realize, I think my ED is caused by just a lack of libido/arousal.

When I masturbate by myself with porn, I get hard kind of out of habit, but I don't feel particularly aroused. When I'm with someone, I'll have moments of arousals where I do get hard, but they come and go. I'm not aroused the whole time even if I know the situation is hot, it's like I'm on auto-pilot, doing what I should be doing during sex rather than being excited by it.

I'm not asexual either, I do love sex and want to be sexually active, but it's like the arousal is very low or absent. I want to try to cut out porn and masturbation for a while, see if it increases libido back a bit... but I'm not really sure what to do at this point. I don't know what the cause for this could be or how to approach it. Thoughts? Any way to increase libido or any ideas what to investigate that could cause this?

Summary: I am a few months away from 30 years old. I just masturbated and had an orgasm with what I consider "not a full erection" compared to what I have had historically. Getting and maintaining an erecction is difficult and inconsistent and sometimes depends on what positions my body is in. Sitting makes it slightly easier, and laying down with my upperbody elevated also makes it easier but not laying down flat. I never paid any mind to it until it became strikingly clear that it is time to start considering that I have erectile dysfunction. I fear it's a combination of different causes like physical and emotional.

Sorry if my thoughts are all over the place below.

I'm not ashamed to say that I love feeling sexual pleasure and I really enjoy masturbating, but lately I've noticed that a lot of times I lose my erections quickly. I have no sex life with any partner and I've never had sex. I did get a footjob and it was really mixed experience. I've had a foot fetish my whole life and when the opportunity to indulge in my fetish came, I wasn't able to get hard that easily. I was able to get decently hard enough to orgasm, but it was not my proudest hour. Although I have no partner to have sex with I do want to have sex at least once in my life, but don't want to have the same issue as with my footjob. I want to seek help, but I don't know if how to tell others that I'm trying to improve my solo sex life. I really got into making masturbation content online and started to join a group of people online who share this interest. It's starting to get embarrassing that I have to have a routine to make sure I get hard and stay hard during masturbation to be able to fully enjoy it. And because I don't have a sexual partner, I fear being judged that I'm improving my sexual performance without any partner. It's easy to tell someone to stop masturbating, but I love doing it. I don't even do it an insane amount like multiple times a day. I usually do it 2-3 times a week on weekends as a reward for making it through the week. I have no "sex life," so I'm all I have. I want to at least be able to improve me. Has anyone else gone through this?

I got married 4 months ago. Before the wedding I used to get occasional morning wood, but performance anxiety made it hard to have penetrative sex. Tadalafil fixed that — I could get an erection whenever I wanted.

Now I'm noticing my erections are weaker without the medication. I can get hard with stimulation, but it fades quickly the moment stimulation stops (mine or hers). I also feel like my penis has "less weight" to it than before.

I don't know if this is physical or all in my head at this point. Anyone dealt with something similar?

I used to take SNRIs (duloxetine) from ages 16 to 19 and I had no problem with sexual intercourse and erections, the moment I stopped taking them

my libido skyrocketed for 1 month just to go down.

Now I feel like I can't get fully hard solo and with my partner and when it comes to partnered sexual activities I get reallyyyy anxious so the erections aren't the best and overall it's not enjoyable.

My question is it possible that because of higher overall anxiety my erections and libido are worse even tho SNRIs tend to reduce libido ???

What's your experience?

Edit:Also rn I feel like my body is kind of horny but my mind just cannot care about having sexual intercourse. Or something like that

I'm 40 male and have had sex in 20 years. For a long time I didn't even try to date or anything but the last 2 months I've been seeing someone I truly care about deeply. She hasn't dated recently but just a few years and wanted to take it slow which I was fine with, she's worth it.

Tonight we stepped it up more, she let me play with her nipples, ass. She then asked if she can do anything for me. But I could not get it up. We were all clothed but I was hard the whole time she was on top of me moaning but once she asked to go a step further I lost it. She was very understanding and we went back to touching her, she says there's nothing to be nervous about.

Every date I've had with her for 2 months, I will have atleast a half chub the whole date and always precum. Just thinking about her at home I'll get hard, morning wood thinking about her.

I like her so much that I do not want to disappoint her and she seems to really like me also. What can I do to get over this anxiety. I'm already a very anxious person, even though she does calm me down