EDEX Still Rules, No Buts About It!

After the unexpectedly wild night of June 20, 2013 (see previous post), we were all fired up for Date Night on Friday the 21st.  A romantic dinner out, a few drinks at the local club, and we were both ready for action.  I'd read in the literature that something like 57% of guys who start out on Prostoglandin have to have their dosage adjusted within a few weeks, so that took away a lot of worry. This time I went right for the gusto and injected two 10 mcg doses.  It only took a few minutes to take effect with a VENGEANCE, and when that happened I was more relaxed and confident than I'd ever been, so I was able to pace myself and take a leisurely approach to foreplay like I hadn't been able to do for a few years.  Our fooling around went on so long that SHE was the one who finally initiated intercourse:  It was cowgirl up, and she rode me furiously, at one point with her hand in the air like at the rodeo.  She has this back and forth move with her hips that apparently feels really good for her but doesn't give me the same pleasure that her up-and-down motion does, but that was good because it didn't make me come too soon, either. It was kind of a weird feeling having my member slammed back and forth inside her, but the visual effect of her up there was also unbelievably hot, so it was both kind of relaxing and arousing at the same time!  

She went on vigorously like that for quite a while, then suddenly confirmed that her usual little outcries are indeed the sound of her coming-- It was a BIG outcry this time, and she flowed when she came, which I'm not sure has ever happened since we've been together. She then slowed her movement and lost focus for a few seconds, but soon began rising and falling on me, which was INCREDIBLE, but soon I could tell she was either losing steam or losing interest.  I laid her down, assumed the top position and carried on, thrusting to please myself.  Danged if after a few minutes she didn't cry "unnngh!" again (although not as loud as before) and sort of went motionless for several seconds.  I couldn't believe how good it was, and didn't want it to end.  My wonderful lover, however, knows every one of my erogenous zones and tweaked all of them, finally pinching both my nipples hard until I was driven over the edge.  I exploded BIG, did some crying out myself, and then collapsed on top of her.  We were asleep in seconds....  THANK YOU, EDEX!

EDEX STILL RULES, BUT...

...the 10 mcg dose hasn't worked for me like it did the first time.  The last time before this, I tried injecting 5 mcg and then another 5 after a minute or two, and that improved things, but The Little Woman still had to use some lube so that Little Willie could fit through the door without bending. :-(    But that all changed on June 20, 2013:

My wife, Wild Woman that she is in bed, doesn't like to talk about the details of sex, and I only know when she's in the mood when she pinches my butt a couple times during in the evening and then softly caresses my buns once we're in bed, like she's guiltily copping a feel or something.  So I was utterly surprised when she started this after we'd been in bed awhile, and when I asked if she was ready she said "Yes!" enthusiastically rather than "if you want to, dear" or something like that.  So I sounded general quarters and hit the deck a runnin' into the bathroom where I injected 10 mcg all at once.  We fooled around a little while, but the results were less than satisfactory.  She tried to mount up but to no avail.  "Dang it! It's not going to work!" she said with obvious frustration.

"Wait!" I said, and hurried back and went for broke and injected another full 10 mcg dose.  It might mean a trip to the Emergency Room, I thought, but it was gonna be worth it. About 5 minutes later, SPROING! and it was on!  It wasn't a personal record, but we certainly went on for much longer than usual.  As I said, my wife doesn't want to talk about it so I never really knew if the little outcry she makes sometimes is when she is coming or not.  After about 20 minutes and a couple different positions, I was on top and thrusting away, giving my all before I got too tired, and suddenly she did her little "unnnngh!" and a few seconds later I came harder than I have in months!  I won't tell you the stupid noises I made....

Then came the waiting to see if I'd need medical attention or not....  From my Papaverine test years ago, I know that curing that artificially induced priapism thing is as simple as inserting a needle and draining Little Willie, so I wasn't TOO worried, but lo and behold, my thing went down to normal in about an hour and a half, so all in all it was a freaking FANTASTIC night!

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....

Edex Still Rules- Though There're Glitches....

Well, the last time, if you read the previous post, I injected 10 mcg of Edex and it worked GREAT, but I was worried I might have to go to the hospital, it lasted so long....   So this time I injected 5 mcg, and the results were disappointing.  Little Willie got big, but not hard enough for penetration, although some contributing factors may have been alcohol (sorry to admit I was pretty intoxicated) and a some prior bad feelings between the Little Woman and me, in that we'd had an argument and still hadn't really made up. The semi-hardness lasted about 3 hours, though....   hard enough to get satisfactory oral sex, but she wasn't interested in that-- again, due to the semi-hard feelings (pun intended).  I'm thinking that the 10 mcg would be the correct dose, after all, though I don't know when I'll get to try it out since she and I are still on the outs....  Things were a little warmer the next morning, but Edex says not to use it more than once in 24 hours,  so I took my last Viagra 100mg in hopes of enticing her into some morning makeup loving, but the blue diamond had absolutely no effect-- I didn't even get the stuffy-nose side effect.  I guess it's injectables from now on or nothing.

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!!!

Viagra Resistance/Viagra Tolerance: It's a Real Thing!

As I said in an earlier post, the wonder drug Cialis quit working for me a couple of years ago, so I went back on Viagra (the 100 mg tablet, this time), and it worked GREAT, although it didn't give you that 36 hours of readiness that Cialis did.  Well, now the effectiveness of my beloved blue diamonds has begun to decrease, so that I can no longer achieve a strong enough erection for sex even though Little Willie does get somewhat expanded.  The urologist suggested a penis ring, but that only helped a little bit.  If you google "Viagra resistance" you'll find an herbal remedy sales website that cites an issue of the International Journal of  Impotence Research which details a study that suggests the efficacy of Viagra and other PDE5 inhibitors decreases over time, requiring stronger doses.  I'm here to tell ya, though, that after awhile even higher doses don't work. I wasn't able to find the actual IPIR article....But I went so far as to take two 100mg Viagras at once, with not much real effect. So, my only other options are 1) a penis pump/penis ring combo, which sounds like a lot of work for dubious reward if you ask me (if you have one of those things and are happy with it, just let me know), and 2) a vasodialator you inject into the penis, like papaverine, phentolamine, or E Prostoglandin (Alprostadil), dunno if I spelled any of those names correctly.  So, I elected for 2) and the doc prescribed Edex, a form of Alprostadil, since papaverine is almost unavailable anymore.  We'll see how that works.

Again with more than the recommended dose? Excuuuuuse Me!

I can't remember the name of the comedian, but he discussed the vararies of Viagra use:  He said that for him, foreplay consisted of him asking his wife "Am I taking this pill or NOT?"  Unlike that fella, my wife prefers spontaneity as much as possible, which is kinda tough when you're spending $20+ for a dose of something that only lasts 4 hours (Viagra, still).  What winds up happening is one morning each weekend, I get out of bed about an hour before I think the little lady is gonna wake up, and I take the little blue happy pill, then try to ambush her when I think she's in the proper frame of mind as soon as possible after she awakens.  Sometimes that works just fine, and sometimes I wind up taking a reeeeally long shower to get at least SOME use out of the the danged pill after for whatever reason she has decided she's not in the mood. 

Sometimes I don't even, uh, pursue things all the way to completion when that happens-- I fantasize and fondle just enough to make the little big guy stand at attention, and I just enjoy that ready-for-action feeling for a while....  When you have ED and you finally get a chance to have a full-blown (no pun intended) erection, its a feeling akin to The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon Cooper screaming "IIIIII HAVE THE SWOOOOORD OF AZEROTH!!!"  This non-completion practice works out well on rare occasions when my lady changes her mind-- she catches a glimpse of her Big Clean Man getting out of the shower, takes in a whiff of his freshness, or remembers watching Jude Law in The Holiday the night before and becomes aroused enough to drag me back into the bedroom or have me right there for breakfast instead of those eggs she was cookin'.  On those days, I am indeed a very lucky man....

On this most recent occasion when I was all firmed up with nowhere to go, however, self-arousal got the better of me in the shower and finished me off, which was good because my lovely Queen decided to finish her eggs instead of me that morning.  But that evening, she gave me a deep, rousing kiss when she walked by me, and as I was at the sink brushing my teeth after dinner, she came up behind me and reached between my legs and tickled the family jewels.  After I finished coughing up the toothpaste I'd swallowed, I washed down a Lil' Blue with my rinse water and hoped it wouldn't take too long to take effect. Success!  In about twenty minutes we were good to go.

Now I guess it's irresponsible to tell you anything encouraging about ignoring the package warning and taking two Viagras in the same day (albet at different times), but as you know from a previous post (which you've already read, right? Ha!) it had a wonderful effect on me once before, and this time was no different: I felt freakin' HUGE and hard as STEEL!  Unlike the loss of control that some guys get when they're so expanded they're about to pop, it felt so damn' GOOD as my little gymnast performed her pommel horse routine on me that I didn't want it to ever stop. She rocked my world, as she always does, but though I moaned and moaned with every stroke, it was forever before I finally went over the edge-- part of which is a function of aging, I suppose, but I think the extreme hardness (maybe combined with an increased feeling of confidence?) kept me in the plateau phase for an inordinate amount of time.  

I'll be honest and tell you I never really know when she comes, other than quite often she will whimper just a little bit and pause for a second... but then resumes whatever she was doing before, hardly a break in stride.  She did that this time, but then collapsed and laid forward on top of me, exhausted.  I had to finish by thrusting up from under her... and when I finally did come, the narrowing of the canal by the exteme engorgement of my cavernosas made the ejaculation feel as if I was exploding out through the nozzle of a power sprayer. It was the most powerful climax I've had in, like, EVER.   

If you're prone to Viagra-induced priapism, then obviously you should not do this, but I think if I were as rich as Hugh Hefner and could afford that candy dish of blue pills next to the bed, I'd be (literally) sorely tempted to go for Round 3, or even more... until a trip to the hospital was necessitated, at least.  Luckily, my pauperism will likely keep me from ever experiencing such heinous abuse!