The 6 Stages Nobody Warns You About

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After prostate surgery, most men go through six stages of treatment, and the scary part is that most don't realize they've already hit stage four until things have gotten much worse. It starts with pills, then shots, then a pump — and each one works less and less over time, so you keep needing more just to get the same result, or less. Before surgery, you got hard during sleep — that's the only time the tissue receives oxygen — but the surgery stunned the nerve, so those nighttime erections stopped completely. Without that nightly oxygen, the soft muscle tissue slowly turns to scar tissue, and scar tissue cannot hold blood the way healthy muscle can — that is the real reason every stage stops working. But your body has another way to keep blood inside that does not depend on the nerve at all — it works through the inner lining of the tissue and can keep things open all night while you heal. Three things can support that process — opening the vessels, slowing the scarring, and giving the muscle energy to hold — keeping the tissue alive so you stop climbing the stages toward an implant.