Two clinicians explain why penile shockwave therapy fails for some patients: long-term type 2 diabetes weakens blood vessels, uncontrolled high blood pressure and its medications impair blood flow, and the "pizza-beer-couch" lifestyle undermines results. Controlled diabetes and good health habits can still yield high success rates.
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Who would not be a good candidate for shockwave therapy?
Great question. And we like to have these conversations, okay. Because we want people to be educated and we want them to be aware to. To know if they're not a good candidate and how guys can improve their results. Oftentimes, guys that have type 2 diabetes or longtime diabetics have, let's say, a hard time getting acoustic wave therapy to work for them. Okay. Because it weakens the blood vessels over time. So if they've been a long time diabetic and they've tried a lot of things and they've tried medications and the vasodilators, and those don't work, I would say you're not a good candidate for acoustic wave therapy. And to try to get the diabetes under control and work on that area of your life. Guys that are on high blood pressure medications. One of the side effects of high blood pressure meds is ED or ED symptoms. Okay? So if you are suffering from high blood pressure, work on that first so you make sure you're around long enough to enjoy your penis. Right.
Let's put it this way. If you grow new blood vessels in the penis and you're on a medication that stops blood from flowing in them, they won't be of much use to you. You'll also probably have brain fog as well. So many people have cognitive issues from high blood pressure. Medic medication. There's a fix for that. It's called intermittent fasting. It improves things dramatically for people. Of course, there's exercise and all that. So you got to address basic lifestyle issues. You can't be a pizza beer couch dweller with ED and then do this and magically expect it to work. Although it might. But if you've been that for a long time, it probably won't, is what I'm hearing.
Correct. And I won't say that you're completely not a good candidate if you have high blood pressure and it's controlled or diabetic. We have patients that come into the clinic all the time and guys that use the Phenx all the time, that it does work for them. But, you know, just to address those questions, it's medications, it's, you know, lifestyle related. It's, you know, if you're on, let's say, maybe some psychological medicine that can have a, you know, a bad effect on your bedroom performance. So those types of things need to be addressed. Absolutely. But if you're in relatively good shape and you take care of yourself, our success rate is very, very.
