A couple of months ago I wrote a blog called "Getting older and keeping things alive". I thought maybe it's time for an update. About seven or eight years ago, I'd reached a stage where I didn't have a partner to share sex with, so it was just about whatever I could do to satisfy myself. I'd gotten to a point of getting older where it was apparent that things had changed....I didn't have the super-rigid hardons that I'd had when I was young. I still could get hard enough to jerk off and make myself cum, but I was realizing that if I ever did have sex with someone else again, I wasn't going to be as capable as I'd want to be.

I'd tried various kinds of herbal remedies and supplements but I wasn't satisfied that I was getting a lot of improvement for all the time and money I was putting into it. It took a long time before I finally learned enough to start buying the right things......It wasn't going to get better just buying pills for ED or short-term gains that lasted a few hours. I eventually came to understand that if I really wanted things to get better, I needed stuff that would actually repair the endothelial walls of my arteries - Things that helped get rid of the plaque that was clogging the arteries, blood thinners that made blood flow easier, and supplements that actually repaired the damage to the artery walls that would allow them to flex to accommodate more blood flow, and facilitate more nitric oxide production that was an integral part of getting good erections.

It's a slow process....Most of the supplements that will do those things take weeks or months to get to a stage where they're working fully, so I've had to be patient, and work hard at taking these things consistently....Not sometimes....Every day, or sometimes several times a day. I've been at this for a while, and it's had it's frustrations - Some of the supplements that are advertised are fakes or inferior copies that don't have much impact. (A warning - Don't buy supplements from Amazon and expect miracles....The counterfeit capsaicin/cayenne pepper, off-brand nattokinase soy and aged garlic extract they sell isn't worth a shit.....You need the original stuff right from the original manufacturer's websites). The good news is that if you really work hard at it and do it right, it eventually has a big payday.

This is where I'm at now. Generally, since supplements like the Aurivita capasaicin/cayenne and Primus 24-month-aged cold-processed garlic extract tell you you going in that it'll be at least eight to twelve weeks before the benefits start to appear, you've got to have faith and work consistently at it. I'm just reaching that stage now. I'd gotten over the last few years to a point where I almost never woke up in the middle of the night with a hard-on, and waking up with morning wood was getting to be a pretty rare thing. It's finally starting happen......I wake up in the middle of the night with erections of steel that are not only harder, but bigger than they've been in a long time, and I almost always wake up with a rigid hard-on that won't disappear until I've had my first morning piss. It's been years since that was something I could count on. I find occasionally that I get involuntary hard-ons in the middle of the day (sometimes at very inconvenient times, lol) and I can frequently get a hardon just by thinking erotic thoughts instead of only an erection when I'm actually looking at hard-core porn. Sometimes I jerk off in the morning and find myself wanting to do it again after ten or fifteen minutes of recovery......and that's a new and very welcome blast from the past - That used to happen when I was in my teens and twenties - Not in my seventies.

And, quite unexpectedly, my prostate issues are less severe than they've been in a while. I'd gone from up five times a night to piss down to once or maybe twice per night after I started using pygeum and 5 mg-daily tadalafil to cope with benign prostatic hyperplasia. Now, with the addition of the other supplements I've started taking for ED's sake, I quite often have nights where I can sleep all night and not have to pee until morning. And that's a benefit I really hadn't expected. What I'm finding is that in doing this supplement regime, it's almost like the fountain of youth in a way....It's giving me back my sex life at a stage when a lot of my friends are resigning themselves to sex being a thing of the past because they think they're too old. I think that's a tragedy......Sex is way too important to just shrug and think it's gone forever. Now, I wake up in the morning and it's almost like Christmas....."Oh look, somebody gave me the gift of a morning hard-on."

I'm happier about the state of my sex life now than I've been in a long time. It would be better if I had a partner there every day to be able to do it with, but, who knows....If things keep getting better, maybe that'll happen. I just wanted to share the good news with people here. I know there are lots of older guys who have struggled to some extent with limited abilities or even full impotence. I just want other people to know that if you really want to have a sex life, unless you've had to deal with unfortunate medical issues like prostate removal or diabetes, it's not a forgone conclusion that sex is done for good. I'm really thankful that I didn't give up on myself,and maybe it's something worth you thinking about.