ED or not ED

[TryintoBcautious]

Hi All,

If anyone can help me out I'd be most abliged.  I'm a 23 healthy male who has had a relatively healthy sex life dating back to the time I was 16 years old.  While I never used to have issues with this in the past, for some reason I seem to have been feeling overly anxious/excited with some recent partners.  I recently got out of a 3 year relationship and at the beginning of this relationship, I was unable to fully get "my guy" up and when I could get him semi-hard, I would prematurly ejaculate and it would be relatively soft.  This happened a bunch of times and I tried everything from refraining from masturbation to taking herbal supplements.  All the herbal supplements did though was make my heart race and make me feel even more anxious.  The way I got over this eventually however, was I had my doc prescribe Viagra for me at only 20 years old.  I took this, when needed, for a couple of months and was finally able to get my confidence back up to the point where I didn't need to take this anymore and I was able to have normal sex again without the assistance of drugs.  I had some more of this prescription available but it basically just sat on my shelf and I never used it again.  After we broke up, I was seeing this other girl, got into a sexual situation with her, and was unable to get it up again.  Needless to say I was extremely frustrated.  However, what I've noticed is that girls that I deem to be extremely attractive/hot is when I have this problem and other girls (that I care less about as bad as it sounds) I don't have this issue and am able to partake in pill-free sex.  I think it's also important to note that I've been a habitual marijuana smoker since the age of about 16-17 however, this never stopped me from performing normally in the past even after I got over my mental hump with the girl I just recently broke up with.  I had an ED issue once as a teenager but it was only once or twice and I eventually got over it naturally.  I exercise daily, take my vitamins and maintain a very healthy diet.  So based on this, here are my questions...

1. Does it sound like marijuana could be the reason I have this issue or is it more psychologically based?
2. Is it bad that I use Viagra to get over this "anxiety hump" when I meet new women whom I have sexual relations?
3. If I use Viagra now to assist in getting my confidence up, will this cause me to not have normal erections down the road? (NOTE: I've read that an oversurplus of nitric oxide in the system (i.e. Viagra) can deplete your body's ability to produce this on its own hence, not allowing you to have natural erections)
4. Is it safe for me to use this drug once in a while as a performance enhancer?

Thanks all and I look forward to your responses.

-Concerned

[waringblender]

The only way you are going to know if the MJ contributes is to cut it out  and see how things go without smoking for a while. I'm guessing at your age it might not make a difference, but if you've been chronically smoking for a while, you never know.

The only long-term effect of Viagra is chronic hard-ons. You're not going to mess up your system somehow by taking it a lot now and having it make you not react to it, or whatever, down the line. It doesn't work that way chemically.  Knock yourself out on the peanut butter but it's not going to keep you hard like V can, sorry to say.

I read "not being able to get it up for really attractive women" as a self-esteem problem. Maybe you should look at addressing your low self-esteem.

[TryintoBcautious]

Thanks for your comments, although you lost me a little bit at the marijuana part.  I quit smoking cigarettes about 3 years ago and haven't touched them since.  I honestly just do a little bit per day, not nearly as much as many people i know.  I'm planning on not masturbating for a while and btw...I eat a TON of peanut butter.  I'm working on body building and I need a high calorie/protein diet so I def. eat a lot of it.  As I said, I just don't know if this is nerves or anything because most of the time still, I wake up with a hard on.  It's just frustrating because I remember back in high school I'd get random hard ons out of no where to the point where I'd have to stay in my seat for a while because I had no control of getting it down and now I rarely ever get random hard ons.  I actually can't remember the last time I had a random hard on.  I honestly don't know if I'll be unable to throw the viagra out as it remains as my safety net.  I'm not about to go through the embarassment of telling another girl I can't get it up.  As I said though, it's usually just with the really hot ones or the ones I care about that I have this issue with.  Any additional comments would be appreciated.  Thanks.

-Concerned

[elvis666]

hey i'll let you know this i'm from africa..but lived in the US for a few never heard about erectile discfunctions i get it up even when i dont want it to ...its just odd but yeah getting back to your point ..hmmm the marijuana definetly contributes the smoking NO definetly that too because i started taking NO explode for work out i've noticed a slight difference and even when i dont smoke my **** is rock hard..so i'd say to you dont masturbate dont smoke dont take any supplements what so ever it might be too much of something or too less of something keep on switching up dont do all of them for a week and next week dont do one do the rest and start learning more about you body have more fore play for the pre ejaculation and if you cant get it up...with that try having one night stands rushing things and see how it all reacts and try to record it as you go by ...you'll end up having something somewhere down the line as for viagra dont touch it again eat a lot of peanut butter because it has natural viagra and more organic food into your body wait a month before any intercourse and then see what happens good luck with everything man.

[TryintoBcautious]

My apologies for the multiple posts doc.  I also wanted to note that I've been quite a frequent masturbator over the years (about 1-2 times per day).  While I may have some trouble sometimes getting it up all the way, I usually can achieve a full erection without difficulty.  Don't know if this would be relevant in my case.  Thanks.

-Concerned