How Common Is Erectile Dysfunction After Prostate Cancer Surgery?
How Common Is Erectile Dysfunction After Prostate Cancer Surgery?Answer: All told, up to 90% of men will have at least temporary ED following prostatectomy. Most men will only have temporary ED and their ability to achieve an erection will return to normal or near-normal after 12 to 18 months. A certain, smaller percentage of men will have long-term ED, especially if the nerves surrounding the genitals could not be spared and were cut during surgery. Many treatment options exist for ED that may help, but, in this subset of men, there will always be some degree of dysfunction. One potentially troubling issue for men dealing with ED following prostate surgery is that the return of normal sexual function often lags well behind the return of normal function in other areas, such as urination. Men sometimes begin to doubt that their normal sexual function will ever return because the rest of their bodies seem to
