Can long-term use of blood pressure medication cause impotence? What are the medications that can cause impotence?

maleimpotenceIn addition to being caused by unhealthy lifestyle, it can also be caused by long-term use of certain medications, which can be caused by long-term use of antihypertensive medicationsimpotenceIs it? What are the medications that can cause impotence? Long-term use of antihypertensive drugs may cause impotence, so let's learn more about the drugs that can cause impotence, as well as understand the dangers of impotence.

1. Drugs that cause impotence

1. Antihypertensive drugs

Patients on antihypertensive drugs had 25% of impotence, compared to only 7% of healthy people who did not take drugs.In addition, 25% of those who take antihypertensive drugs have ejaculation disorders. Reserpine can disrupt certain substances in the neuroaxial system, which can cause depression in the patient, which in turn affects the patient's sexual desire or difficulty getting an erection. Agityl directly opposes the action of the sympathetic nervous system, so it is common to feel impotence and difficulty ejaculation. Clonidine inhibits the sympathetic nervous system on the one hand, and can cause depressive states on the other hand, so it is easy to causeSexual dysfunction

Long-term use of propranolol can be used to constrict blood vessels by blocking adrenergic nerve activity, reducing blood flow and eventually leading to impotence.

2. Hormones

1. Adrenocorticotropic hormones: such as prednisone and dexamethasone, which are used to treat immune infertility with anti-sperm antibodies to suppress the patient's immune response, but can appear when the daily dosage reaches 20 mgSexual dysfunctionDisease. In addition, long-term use of such drugs can also induce diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, etc.

2. Estrogen: Clinically it is often used to treat benign prostatic hyperplasia, these patients will have male breast hyperplasia, reduced and slowed down beard growth, decreased desire,impotence, ejaculation disorders, decreased semen volume and other obvious side effects.

3. Cyclopropylchlorprogesterone: It is an artificially synthesized steroidal compound with anti-androgen activity, which plays a competitive inhibitory role in androgen target organs. During the period of medication, it can lead to disorders of the reproductive endocrine axis system, and decreased desire can be seen in about a week.impotenceand other symptoms, long-term use can cause low sperm infertility.

4. Testosterone: A large amount of foreign testosterone inhibits the endocrine function of the pituitary gland and testicles, so that the endogenous testosterone secretion is reduced, especially for those patients with psychological impotence, there is no lack of testosterone, but after the use of drugs, it interferes with the normal metabolism and endocrine function.

3. Diuretics

For example, spironolactone, an aldosterone antagonist, can inhibit the activity of testosterone synthase, so that testosterone synthesis decreases, and blood levels decrease. It causes decreased libido in 20% of men. In addition, diuretics can cause potassium loss in the body, decrease blood potassium concentration, reduce neuromuscular sensitivity, and relax vascular smooth muscle, which can lead to weakened erections.

4. Sedatives

High-dose diazepam has a specific effect on the limbic system, directly reducing or enhancing desire function. Valium has the effect of relaxing muscles, and the efferent nerves of the spinal cord can cause loss of desireimpotence

5. Antipsychotic drugs

Some drugs paralyze the seminal vesicle sphincter and decrease the ability to ejaculate, while others can cause decreased testosterone levels and impaired sperm production. The depressant amitriptyline can inhibit the effect of the adrenergic nerves in the α, so that the blood repertory of the butin cavernous body subsides, delays and delays, so some people use this treatmentpremature ejaculation, but the general constriction of blood vessels caused by long-term large amounts of use will cause Ding Ding erection weakness, resulting inimpotence。

6. Hobbies

1. Alcohol, 68% of women and 45% of men believe that moderate alcohol will reduce the individual's usual sexual depression, overcome sexual anxiety or guilt, relax the feeling, and enhance desire. However, if alcohol is consumed excessively, alcohol can inhibit the central nervous system, interfere with the transmission pathway of sexual impulses, stimulate reflexes, and inhibit erections.

2. Tea, coffee, cola and other beverages have a certain excitatory effect on the central nervous system and can improve people's sensitivity to sexual stimulation.

2、impotenceWhat are the hazards

(1) Affect male fertility

We all know that sperm-egg union is the basis for the birth of a new life.impotencePatients have difficulty getting an erection and are unable to transfuse sperm into the woman's cervix, making it difficult to have children. For patients with milder disease, the common symptom is a weak erection that can barely complete sexual activity. However, at this time, the patient's physiological function is in an unhealthy state, and the sperm quality is poor, so it is difficult to ensure that a healthy little life is born. It can be seen that impotence not only affects the patient's ability to have children, but also may affect the health of the next generation.

(2) Cause disharmony in the relationship between husband and wife

Impotence will reduce the quality of life of the couple, which not only troubles the physical and mental health of men, but also relates to the harmony and happiness of the sexes.

(3) Mental illness

After men suffer from impotence, men will have some psychological pressure, and will be shrouded in the shadow of the disease for a long time, and their work and life will be affected and cruelly tortured. Long-term depression and depression will cause patients to lose their happiness in life, be negative and depressed, and even cause psychological disorders.

(4) Danger to health

There are many reasons for impotence, unhealthy physiological conditions, psychological states and unscientific lifestyles can lead to impotence to varying degrees, and if impotence is not treated in time, it will endanger the health of patients.