erections during deep sleep ?

[seven7]

ED had been one of my first symptoms more then 10yrs ago and the progression has continued to the point that even if i try my best now - theres nothing there so to speak ... but some nights during the middle of my sleep i semi wakeup with a complete erections ... does this happen to others too ??

[YukonArthur]

I do believe that this is normal for most Men. With or without MS. In medical jargon it is called "Nocturnal penile tumescence.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturn...ile_tumescence

Though I am not sure how it can effect men with MS generated ED.

Cheers,

Arthur

[jojo18]

it is 100% normal. i learned that in psychology. all (most?) men get erections during deep sleep. women get the equivalent too when sleeping.

[seven7]

thanks for your thoughts ... i'm just really surprised about my extremes - when i'm awake no matter how i try i'm basically impotent now , yet during sleep i get erections like i'm a teen and they end the more awake or aware i become of what is happenning .. if the nerve pathway is damaged (ms) i don't feel this nightime action should happen or maybe its become a huge psychological issue for me trying to get this function back

[d.sam]

Re: erections during deep sleep

if the nerve pathway is damaged (MS) i don't feel this nighttime action should happen

I agree with you there. I think your ED is due to some psychological reasons despite of any hormonal imbalance. Also ED caused by psychological reasons need some behavior therapy. Why don't you discuss it with your doctor.

[seven7]

I agree with you there. I think your ED is due to some psychological reasons despite of any hormonal imbalance. Also ED caused by psychological reasons need some behavior therapy. Why don't you discuss it with your doctor.

thanks for confirming what i thought ... most of my ms symptoms are rr they come and go - which is great ... it could be my ED should be like that too maybe ... but the first time i failed to hold an erection i was so embarrassed and aware of it i think it became psychological right away - its very hard to overcome

[Howard F]

Sorry, I think you and d.sam are quite wrong. There may be good reasons to spend a lot of time and money on psychotherapy, but fixing your ED is not one of them. Apparently nighttime erections follow a different neural pathway than regular ones. I stopped getting daytime erections several years after my first MS exacerbation, but continued getting them at night. Good news and bad news: I can get waking erections with Viagra and some help, but sex doesn't feel the same. For many years before the ED drugs, people were told that if they got nighttime erections, their problems were psychological, but now it's obvious that's not true.

[d.sam]

Howard F: Apparently nighttime erections follow a different neural pathway than regular ones.

Great but can you also please provide the source of this information. Also read this: wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocturnal_penile_tumescence
ED drugs are much effective in physiological ED. Apparently ED drugs can also give erections to guys with psychological ED, but sex doesn't feel the same.

[seven7]

Sorry, I think you and d.sam are quite wrong. There may be good reasons to spend a lot of time and money on psychotherapy, but fixing your ED is not one of them. Apparently nighttime erections follow a different neural pathway than regular ones. I stopped getting daytime erections several years after my first MS exacerbation, but continued getting them at night. Good news and bad news: I can get waking erections with Viagra and some help, but sex doesn't feel the same. For many years before the ED drugs, people were told that if they got nighttime erections, their problems were psychological, but now it's obvious that's not true.

thanks frank i had never heard of that - night erections using a different pathway .. although it does'nt cheer me and i was kinda hoping i mite truely have a chance to be potent again .. this must be new reasearch on pathways ? i admit i could'nt make sense how i could be so fully erect for so long but once i got out of bed and went flat - minutes later .. i knew there was no way i could get erect again like that then or during the day afterwards

[aaronbell]

This is natural process and one of the good symbol of health sexual life.

[AlvisWilson]

could be fyn. tc