These are two ED treatments you've probably heard about if, like me, you research ED cures every other day hoping for a miracle. Just in case you ain't heard, the miracle may be here, or rather, may be in Canada, Europe, and everywhere else except the USA! The ED 1000 is a version of the ultrasonic shock wave machine that has been used successfully to grow new blood vessels in damaged heart muscle, now adapted for use on the penis to cure, that's right, CURE most ED problems. It's made in the US and has been in use in Canada and the UK for a couple of years, and they report something like a 95% success rate. The UK has pressed ahead with it because their National Health Service currently pays at least part of their citizens' Viagra and Cialis bills, so a cure would reduce that cost. I read somewhere that the treatment takes 6 weeks and costs around $2100. Hell, I'll spend almost that on EDEX this year alone!
Stendra is yet another PDE-5 inhibitor medication that supposedly was approved by the FDA in April, 2012, but I can't find any information on its availabilty. My drugstore did not have it in its catalog, and I signed up for a newsletter on the manufacturer's website but have heard nothing from them. Supposedly it works faster than Viagra, in like 15 minutes, and it wears off in an hour. I thought I might try it, since every ED drug I've had works great for awhile then quits, except for Papaverine and EDEX which never fail. We'll see....
UPDATE: I read where the developer of Stendra finally obtained permission from the FDA to advertise that it was more fast-acting, and that having this permission persuaded another drug company to partner with the original developer in production and investment, etc. Supposedly that means that Stendra may become available by the end of 2013. Keeping my fingers crossed! I've called a couple of ED clinics in Canada, but I've yet to find one that offers the ED 1000 treatment.
UPDATE, 03/13/2014: Stendra is now available. There are numerous brochures sitting around in my urologist's offce advertising it, now. Ya. Hoo.
UPDATE, 05/05/2014: I finally got my family doc to prescribe me Stendra. The literature says that because I take Diltiazem for blood pressure, I should not take more than the lowest (50mg) dose, but that dose is on back-order everywhere for some reason, so he gave me some 100mg samples and said to cut 'em in half. The first time I tried that, the other half of the pill went shooting out of sight and I never did find it. The 50mg dose had absolutely no effect on my severe ED, so a day or so later I did a whole 100mg, which helped things but did not make it hard enough for penetration (although my angel of a wife cheerfully pleasured me orally!), so a couple days after that I did two 100mg tablets (they make a 200mg pill, so that's not outrageous) and it worked very well with no untoward effects, although it took a full 30 minutes to reach full power. Still, supposedly you can take it with food, so that's a good thing!
UPDATE, 04/02/2015: I'm on an ED1000 email list (subscribe at www.medispec.com) that says they are partnering with menshealthsolutions.ca in Canada to provide ED1000 treatment clinics. The price for the treatment as of this date is $4000, although I dunno if that's USD or Loonies. The on-line brochure also says ED1000 is approved as a treatment for Peyronie's, which is a surprise. Not sure if I want to invest that much now and travel up North, or just wait until the treatment is approved in the US and might be covered at least partially by insurance. Medispec's website has said for months that the ED1000 is in the final stage of clinical trials for approval by the FDA, so I wonder what the hold-up is, beyond maybe Pfizer, Lilly, the other PDE5 drug manufacturers trying to keep it off the market. Oh, well....
UPDATE: I read where the developer of Stendra finally obtained permission from the FDA to advertise that it was more fast-acting, and that having this permission persuaded another drug company to partner with the original developer in production and investment, etc. Supposedly that means that Stendra may become available by the end of 2013. Keeping my fingers crossed! I've called a couple of ED clinics in Canada, but I've yet to find one that offers the ED 1000 treatment.
UPDATE, 03/13/2014: Stendra is now available. There are numerous brochures sitting around in my urologist's offce advertising it, now. Ya. Hoo.
UPDATE, 05/05/2014: I finally got my family doc to prescribe me Stendra. The literature says that because I take Diltiazem for blood pressure, I should not take more than the lowest (50mg) dose, but that dose is on back-order everywhere for some reason, so he gave me some 100mg samples and said to cut 'em in half. The first time I tried that, the other half of the pill went shooting out of sight and I never did find it. The 50mg dose had absolutely no effect on my severe ED, so a day or so later I did a whole 100mg, which helped things but did not make it hard enough for penetration (although my angel of a wife cheerfully pleasured me orally!), so a couple days after that I did two 100mg tablets (they make a 200mg pill, so that's not outrageous) and it worked very well with no untoward effects, although it took a full 30 minutes to reach full power. Still, supposedly you can take it with food, so that's a good thing!
UPDATE, 04/02/2015: I'm on an ED1000 email list (subscribe at www.medispec.com) that says they are partnering with menshealthsolutions.ca in Canada to provide ED1000 treatment clinics. The price for the treatment as of this date is $4000, although I dunno if that's USD or Loonies. The on-line brochure also says ED1000 is approved as a treatment for Peyronie's, which is a surprise. Not sure if I want to invest that much now and travel up North, or just wait until the treatment is approved in the US and might be covered at least partially by insurance. Medispec's website has said for months that the ED1000 is in the final stage of clinical trials for approval by the FDA, so I wonder what the hold-up is, beyond maybe Pfizer, Lilly, the other PDE5 drug manufacturers trying to keep it off the market. Oh, well....
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