Eli5 Why do you need to call a doctor if your erection lasts longer than 4 hours after taking male enhancement medication?

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Eli5 Why do you need to call a doctor if your erection lasts longer than 4 hours after taking male enhancement medication?

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Priapism

With many erectile dysfunction medication (or UnderDaCounter if you’re drinking in the Caribbean) Your wood stays wooden partly because so much blood flows into the tree trunk that it compresses and blocks the outflow – blood doesn’t drain out of it as quickly as usual, thus, blood backs up and fills up the penis and it gets hard

Cool

BUT if you back up the blood by preventing drainage, for too long, the tissue of the timber will eventually stop getting enough oxygen and nutrients because not enough blood is coming in, because not enough is draining out. If this goes too long, the tissue begins to starve, and things that starve eventually die.

Call a doctor so that medical care can be provided to evacuate blood from the penis (back to the body or with actual drainage) so that new blood can come in and replenish the oxygen and nutrients that your woody tissue craves.

[In depth explanation from the National Library of Medicine](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK459178/)