Premature ejaculation

Pharmacotherapy for premature ejaculation.

INTRODUCTION Four premature ejaculation (PE) subtypes are distinguished on the basis of the duration of the intravaginal ejaculation latency time (IELT), its course in life, and frequency of complaints. Since the 1930s oral drug treatment and local anesthetics have been used to treat PE. Apart from dapoxetine, all currently available drugs to treat PE (SSRIs, clomipramine, and local anesthetics...

Levosulpiride in premature ejaculation.

BACKGROUND Premature ejaculation is one of the most common sexual disorders. A large number of treatment options have been used so far for the treatment of this dysfunction and still a large number of experts are doing research in this field. Here we have tried to research on the beneficial effects of levosulpiride in the treatment of PE. METHODS Eighty-eight patients form different areas of ...

History of Premature Ejaculation

The history of premature ejaculation (PE) is a history of contrasting hypotheses, controversial debates among medical specialists and psychologists, many opinions, and ignorant and embarrassed patients, but it is also the history of independently thinking clinicians, and pioneering clinicians and neuroscientists, who all together and throughout the years contributed to a better insight in a syn...

Advances in treating premature ejaculation

In spite of its high prevalence and long history, the ambiguity regarding the definition, epidemiology and management of premature ejaculation continues. Topical anesthetic creams and daily or on-demand selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) treatment forms the basis of pharmacotherapy for premature ejaculation today, in spite of low adherence by patients. Psychotherapy may improve the o...

Erectile dysfunction and premature ejaculation