Treatment for high blood pressure and awesome sex go hand in hand – if you are open to lowering your blood pressure and staying healthy.
Even if you have no signs or symptoms, blood pressure can be impacting your sex life. Although your sexual activity level may not pose an immediate threat to your health, it can be an embarrassing problem that can lead to stress, depression and lost relationships. Your overall satisfaction with sex (not to mention your partner’s satisfaction), can be dictated by high blood pressure.
A link between high blood pressure and sexual problems has been proven in men and is quite possibly the cause of much sexual frustration in women.
Erectile Dysfunction
Over time, high blood pressure damages the blood vessels and hardens and narrows arteries (atherosclerosis). This in turn limits blood flow. Since a good erection is achieved by adequate blood flow to the penis, this can make it difficult to achieve and maintain erections – often referred to as erectile dysfunction.
I don’t know about you, but I’ve experienced the inability to maintain an erection and it leads to anxiety. Fear that it will happen again which caused me to try and avoid sex. Additionally, it can become a self-fulfilling prophecy: “You can’t stay hard because you are afraid you won’t stay hard situation.”
High blood pressure may also interfere with your ability to ejaculate and reduces sexual desire. Popular blood pressure medications can have the same effect. That’s why natural remedies for reducing your blood pressure should be tried first!
High Blood Pressure Medication Side Effects
- Water Pills (Diuretics): Diuretics can decrease forceful blood flow to the penis causing inability to achieve and maintain and erection. Additionally, diuretics deplete the body of zinc, which is necessary to make the sex hormone testosterone.
- Beta blockers: These medicines can affect the nervous system, making it impossible to get an erection. Beta blockers also make it difficult for the arteries in the penis to widen (dilate) enough to allow blood flow into the penis for an erection.