The way Matthew Lucarellis saw it, elderly men might develop male erectile dysfunction , or ED, but not a man like himself, a 36-year-old lawyer who lives in Cheshire together with his wife, Leah, and their young son.
Last year, however, the Lucarellis sensed something was wrong. “Things just weren’t an equivalent ,” says Leah, a complicated practice RN . “We attributed it to the very fact that we are both working parents. We both have stressful jobs and anxieties. It wasn’t until we tried to possess a second child that we began to ask, ‘What’s happening here?’ We had been trying for a year and a half.”
Matthew was concerned he may need a medical problem, so Leah encouraged him to urge help. Last fall he made a meeting with Charles Walker, MD, an urologist who focuses on ED who was then at Yale Medicine. ED is difficulty getting and keeping an erection. The visit involved an examination also as some counseling, which surprised Matthew. “I was ready to open up and really mention the problems,” he says.
He left with a prescription for the drug Cialis to treat his ED, a clearer picture of his health generally and new motivation to form lifestyle changes.