Cialis as one of the treatments for Parkinson’s Disease
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For most people, falling ill is something up with which you put. It’s a part of life. There’s no particular reason to get upset. Yet some diseases and disorders have acquired the reputation of being unfair or, even, cruel. Of course, it’s always open to someone to blame their bad luck. It’s the, “Why me? Life’s so unfair!” brigade. Arguably, erectile dysfunction falls into this class. It strikes at such a personal level of physical performance. It’s something you would wish on your worst enemy – well, any enemy, really. Yet other physical diseases can affect the body in ways that are more obviously cruel. Erectile dysfunction is something you can hide. Parkinson’s Disease is a degeneration of motor skills. It interferes with speech, hands tremble, joints stiffen and it becomes more difficult to move around. There’s also a slow breakdown in mental ability, although not on the same scale as the equally unkind Alzheimer’s Disease. The feature that links all these conditions together is the effect the disease or disorder has on those around you. Erectile dysfunction is destructive of relationships. Parkinson’s makes life very difficult for family and friends who have to watch the “victim” gradually lose all their motor skills.
The American Academy of Neurology is tasked with monitoring progress in the treatment of Parkinson’s. It reviews research and issues fairly regular sets of guidelines recommending best practice. This March sees the release of another guideline. The three most common effects of Parkinson’s that disrupt daily living are insomnia, constipation and erectile dysfunction. Perhaps with unintended irony, the three symptoms group two and one. In two, there is not enough movement. In the third, there is too much movement as the tremors disturb the normal sleep patterns. Focussing on the problems of erection, there’s a general failure of the muscular co-ordination required both to urinate and to respond to sexual stimulation with an erection. Although the muscular movements required are different, the results of failure are more disruptive to the quality of life. Men find the incontinence and sexual failure deeply humiliating.
The treatment for the erectile dysfunction is significantly more effective than for control of urination. This is because the only muscular movements required are more subtle and less demanding. To produce an erection, the only movement required is in the smooth muscle in the walls of the arteries leading into the penis. After that, blood pressure does the rest by pumping an excess of blood into the penis. Managing the bladder and operating the valves to release the flow of urine is significantly more complicated and cannot be assisted by a single chemical process. Erectile dysfunction is “cured” by the use of a PDE5 inhibitor such as cialis. Within the broad context of the treatment for all the movement problems, cialis is the most effective and has the fewest adverse interactions with other drugs. It gives up to thirty-six hours of responsiveness when taken as needed. There’s also a once-daily version that potentially enables sexual responsiveness 24/7. However, for all its record of success, cialis and the other PDE5 inhibitors can only delay the failure of movement made inevitable by the continuing degeneration of the motor skills. There are no “cures” available for Parkinson’s and, no matter what treatment is given, sexual performance will eventually fail. As we started this article, so we end with the thought that some diseases and disorders are genuinely cruel.