It has been a while since I updated this thread. Over the last year or so, we have settled into a 'normal' - John can get spontaneous erections, including during the night and on waking, but continues to worry that he may not maintain them and so relies on tablets instead. We have just come back from the trip of a life time (yes, another one) and beforehand I asked if we could, just once perhaps, have a holiday morning s**g - I am sure many of you remember those heady days of our youth when waking up with sunshine and sounds of waves crashing could almost guarantee a quickie before breakfast? I REALLY miss that closeness. Anyway, it never happened ... he simply does not have the confidence and self-belief to try it.
So he has fully recovered mechanically but still has ED. Viagra and Levitra both work, albeit in different ways, and the GP is still happy to prescribe both. Erections are not so long-lasting so sex tends to be a bit more rushed these days. Length and girth seem to be diminishing further, which we hadn't expected at this late stage but may be a late side effect of RT and/or simply long term impact of 'use it or lose it'; even with the odd night or morning erection, drug induced erections etc you cannot replicate the average 20 or so erections that a healthy man will have daily (who is that average man?)
We have talked about whether to go back to see wonderful Zoe (the ED guru) to ask about going back to the injections. My instinct though is that if there is no physiological reason to have ED then Zoe will say the risk of prolonged erection is too high.