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Suggest Tests To Confirm Impotenecy

Hello, i have 18 years and i started to have impotency problems before 8 months, i visited a doctor and he told me that it is nothing its in my head. I know that this is not correct because he didnt make any test on me or smthing like that, before that i was thinking about sex more often and my erections were more often, but know, there are no erections almost at all, even when i am with my girlfriend. What could it be the reason of my problem? ( pls dont say its in your head, cause it makes me problems almost one year)
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I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

Well you are suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED) and psychological erectile dysfunction is one of the cause but it is not the only cause there are many other reasons behind erectile dysfunction. If you would have come to me then i would have ordered certain tests to rule out the cause of erectile dysfunction and if everything came out to be fine then i would label it as psychogenic ED because psychogenic ED is always diagnosis of exclusion. I would have ordered serum uric acid levels, fasting lipid profile, HbA1c levels and scrotal Doppler ultrasound as these problems often contributes towards ED.

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Suggest Tests To Confirm Impotenecy

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. Well you are suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED) and psychological erectile dysfunction is one of the cause but it is not the only cause there are many other reasons behind erectile dysfunction. If you would have come to me then i would have ordered certain tests to rule out the cause of erectile dysfunction and if everything came out to be fine then i would label it as psychogenic ED because psychogenic ED is always diagnosis of exclusion. I would have ordered serum uric acid levels, fasting lipid profile, HbA1c levels and scrotal Doppler ultrasound as these problems often contributes towards ED. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.