It’s the butt of jokes and widely misunderstood, and yet, erectile dysfunction causes embarrassment and distress to more than two million British men.
With creams and injections not always proving effective, more and more men are taking the plunge and turning to surgery to cure their bodily woes. But as Dan Metzgar, a 45-year-old lorry driver from Maryland, found out, surgery isn’t without its risks.
Upsetting: Dan Metzgar, 45, was left in agony when a penile pump operation was botched‘It’s very embarrassing to walk around with an erection that won’t go away, not to mention painful,’ he reveals.
‘Imagine trying to stuff an erection into your pants and hide it all the time. I was wearing baggy clothes and over-length shirts to try to hide it.’
His problems began in 2006 when he began suffering from erectile problems and the catastrophic loss of confidence that resulted.
‘I could see it was taking a toll on him because, you know, not feeling like a man,’ Dan’s wife Donna explains. ‘He was in despair.’
Recluse: Dan says being left with a permanent erection left him depressed and too upset to go out
Recluse: Dan says being left with a permanent erection left him depressed and too upset to go out
After a succession of creams and pills failed to provide a cure, Dan and Donna decided to spend their $42,000 life savings on surgery.
‘Most men with erection problems have an inability to get or maintain an erection satisfactorarily to have sexual intercourse,’ explains Gordon Muir, a consultant urologist.
‘[A penile pump] has two little balloons which are implanted into the penis, a small pump which lies in from of the scrotum and a bag of saline which lies next to the bladder.
‘When the patient wants to have an erection, he simply squeezes the pump, and the cylinders fill up with saline and become swollen and also quite rigid.’
Dan hoped that the pump would prove the solution to his woes. Instead, the operation was the start of a year of misery.
After an operation that should have taken one hour turned into four, Dan was forced to stay in hospital for an extra four days and returned home in agony.
‘The pain every day was like something stabbing me,’ he remembers. ‘It was like a screwdriver poking at the inside of the scrotum, trying to break free. And it didn’t go away – it didn’t get easier.’
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