The easy answer is to go on to the internet and buy one of the drugs (for example, levitra) from an online pharmacy. Except this leaves many other questions unanswered. Firstly, how many times have you failed to get or keep a hard erection. From time to time, almost every man has a less than perfect performance. There are many possible reasons for this from simple tiredness to an excess of alcohol or street drugs. So you have to decide when the quality of your erections falls and justifies some effort to get treatment. This decision has to be taken against a backdrop where erectile dysfunction medications have moved from a prescription only drug to a lifestyle choice. Many couples now take one or more of these drugs as an experiment or to enhance an already pleasurable experience. Instead of medicine, this is recreational.

The casual use of drugs may not be in your interests in this instance. Although the main drugs used to treat erectile dysfunction (viagra, cialis and levitra)are safe and effective in all but the exceptional cases, the fact of erectile dysfunction, particularly in men over the age of 40 years, may be a first symptom of more serious medical problems. Even though you may not have any other symptoms, you will be safer if you have a full medical check-up. Why safer, you ask. The way your body produces an erection relies on the walls of the arteries leading into the penis dilating when you are sexually stimulated. This allows more blood to flow into the penis and inflates it into an erection. If something prevents the arteries from dilating, there is no erection. These arteries are about one-quarter the diameter of the primary arteries leading to the heart but, putting it simply, arteries are arteries. If you have a problem with the narrow ones now, you may have a problem with the wider ones in about four or five years time. There are many reasons why the arteries may not dilate but the more worrying involve a hardening process when platelets are deposited from the blood. Left untreated, this leads to arteriosclerosis and potentially serious heart problems. All doctors were sent a medical advisory in 2006 which instructed them to deal with all men reporting erectile dysfunction as actual heart patients until the contrary is proved.