July 26th, 2008 
Von More and more husbands are now coming out in the open to seek treatment for erectile dysfunction (ED), a positive development happily noted by two Filipino urologists.
Not only has erectile dysfunction, commonly called impotency, ceased to be a taboo subject, it has also become the wife’s concern as well.
“These days,” says Dr. Michael Leh, a urologist at the Medical City, “it’s more the wife who is recognizing the problem. In my meetings with my fellow Rotarians, I have noticed that it’s the wives now who raise the issue of erectile dysfunction.”
Dr. Juliano Panganiban of St. Luke’s Medical Center and the Chinese General Hospital, shares Leh’s observation.
“Aside from ED and mutual satisfaction issues that accompany it, she is concerned that her husband may have other undiagnosed medical problems that may have led to ED and which may be more of a problem like diabetes hypertension or any other cardiovascular diseases,” Panganiban says.
The two noted urologists take it as a positive development that women now have a voice when their husbands face the problem of erectile dysfunction, a disorder that often eats away at a man’s self-image and affects their relationship.
As a result, Leh says he now deals with patients in their 20s or late 80s who don’t feel embarrassed whenever they ask for prescriptions for sildenafil citrate so they may have full erection.
Developed by Pfizer in the late 1990s, sildenafil citrate is the first oral drug for male impotency. Taken as a pill shortly before intercourse, it selectively dilates the blood vessels in the penis, improving blood flow and allowing for a more natural sexual response.
Source: Philippine Star
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