Bi-Mix Rules!

Well I was using Edex, which worked okay but caused a dull ache in my penis the whole time, which was sometimes very uncomfortable.  Then my nice but generally disinterested urologist retired and I was assigned a new, much younger guy who nevertheless seemed very experienced.  He recommended Bi-Mix, which is a combination of my old friend Papaverine and Phentolamine, and is only available from a compounding pharmacy.  He recommended EmpowerRx which is located in Houston, TX and sends the stuff by mail order. It costs less than $100 for an amount that provides 7 - 12 doses depending on how much you need per dose, so its a HECK of a lot cheaper than Edex, and it works great!  Takes about 15 -20 minutes to reach peak hardness, lasts 60 - 90 minutes.  The Little Woman and I are gettin' older so she doesn't want to have more than one go-round in any one session, but I've gotten into the shower after a bout of lovemaking and within the above time-period found I was easily stimulated back to full attention, so I'm thinking you could get at least a couple of good rodgerings with each dose if you and your partner are up for it.  The only drawback is that I seem to require a bigger dose than when I started....   The Doc said that if I eventually need a really big dose then I should switch to Tri-Mix, which is the two drugs listed above plus the drug that's in Edex, so it would be back to having an aching Willy.  Woohoo!  The things we do for love....  

Edex Performance Becoming More Consistent.

The Little Woman and I had another dry spell, albeit a shorter one of about two weeks, but after which her performance improved with the pent-up passion.  My performance, not so much:  She rode me furiously, and though I hung on longer than last time I still erupted at about the 4-minute mark.  Afterward she seemed to be energized, heading back out to the living room to watch TV while I in typical man fashion quickly fell asleep.  I read somewhere that there is an actual physiological basis for this, that some endorphin or hormone or something is released in the man's system after sex that makes him sleepy, probably so the ancient cave woman could get the hell away afterward!

I was awakened sometime later by Her coming back to bed.  I don't know how much later it was, but when she pushed up against me to spoon, my Little Man sprang to life.  I dunno what came over me, but I didn't try to seduce her with sweet talk, I didn't ask permission, I just attacked her, burying my face in her cleavage while I climbed on top.  She didn't resist or protest, just wrapped her arms around my shoulders and hung on for what turned out to be a good long motorboating and pony ride.  I think maybe, for once, she really enjoyed being taken.  Anyway, I must have been at the limit of Edex' efficacy because as soon as I expended myself, the Little Man collapsed,  exhausted.  And you know what?  This time we both instantly fell asleep. 

Where is my Stendra? And where is my ED 1000?

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....

Back to the Future: Edex Rules!

Since the PDE5 inhibitors aren't working for me anymore (see previous post), the doc prescribed a trial dosage of Edex, a brand of E Prostaglandin (Alprostadil) which you inject directly into the penis.  It's not as bad as it sounds, really!  Edex comes in little kits, with the drug prepackaged in solution in 10 microgram (or 20 mcg) cartridges.  You attach one of the included 29-gauge needles to the injector device which is like the outside of a syringe, insert the cartridge and then jab in the needle and push the device plunger down to inject the stuff.  This is a lot more convenient than it was with papaverine in the old days, where I would have to make up my own dosages/syringes, but it's also much more expensive.  The doc said to use 5 micrograms to start out, which you dose by squirting out the extra 5 mcg from the 10 mcg cartridge then inject all the rest.  If that didn't work, I was supposed to use a 10 mcg dose the next time. Well, you know I didn't want any failures the first time, so I thought I would inject 5 mcg and if nothing happened, I would inject the rest of the 10 mcg cartridge to buck up things and not waste anything.  The Little Woman and I had been drinking a little, too, so that may have clouded my judgement a little bit....

The problem was that even with my glasses I couldn't read the markings on the cartridge when I was holding it "down there", so I wound up just guessing by pushing the plunger part of the way down and then withdrew the needle.  It turned out I'd actually injected about 7 mcg worth, and even though they tell you it takes between 5 and 20 minutes to work, I got impatient when I didn't feel anything right away, so I stuck it in again and injected the rest of the cartridge.  Well!  Things started to happen then, lemme tell ya!  As soon as we started fooling around, Little Willie grew as big and hard as he's ever been, and actually started to ache a little bit (which is a common side effect, and it wasn't enough to make me stop going for the gusto).  She likes it on top so she can manipulate things to maximize her pleasure (and who am I to complain?), and very early on she became Cowgirl UP!  She even threw up her hand like she was riding a bronco, there for a bit.  She pounded me back and forth inside her so hard I was afraid I might get hurt....  She came first, but gamely rode me until I exploded.  She lay on top of me for a few minutes, then noticed I was still somewhat hard, and son of a gun, she mounted up and rode me to town again!  ....The third time, I told her she didn't have to do that, that the dose of Edex I'd taken would probably not let it go down for awhile, but she went at it again anyway (you can see why I love this woman), and danged if she didn't force out another climax from me, albeit much smaller than the first two.  I was spent, literally, and she was tired.  We both drifted off to sleep, but after an hour I woke up and was still hard.... I began to get alarmed, fearing that a trip to the hospital was going to be necessary.

In the old days my now ex-wife would never want to go around a second time, EVER, so I often found that the climax produced by a bout of self-love would trigger enough relaxation that the erection would subside faster.  This time, however, nothing doing.  When I reached the 3 hour mark things had softened only a little bit, but I was tired and set my alarm for 1.5 hours later, resolving to go to the emergency room if by then nothing had changed.  Just before the alarm went off I woke up again, and to my relief Wille was Little again.  Whew!  The next time I'm sticking to the 5 mcg dose, I swear!

PS:  I thought the, um, artificiality of things might be off-putting to my wife, but the next morning the Little Woman was affectionately calling me Iron Man, an apt analogy, really. She really didn't seem to care why it worked, was just happy it did.  Let me tell you, though, things are not totally artificial-- if there is no arousal on my part, the inside hardness will be there but the head remains small and the outside skin is a little loose.  Get me excited, though (as she almost always does with ease), and everything expands correspondingly, and then some, so it ain't all just the drugs, man.  EDEX RULES!!!