Talking to Your Doctor About Embarrassing Symptoms
The appointment was booked for something else. A refill, a work medical, a sore shoulder. The other thing — the lump, the leaking, the blood, the fact that sex has stopped working — was rehearsed…
Antidepressants and Sexual Side Effects: An Honest Conversation
The medication worked. That is the frustrating part. The mornings stopped being unbearable, the constant background dread lifted, and work became possible again. Then, somewhere in the second month, a man notices that his interest…
Understanding Priapism: When an Erection Becomes a Medical Emergency
Priapism is an erection that persists beyond about four hours, or one unrelated to sexual arousal, and it is a urological emergency. Blood becomes trapped in the erectile tissue, oxygen supply falls, and the tissue…
Adult Vaccinations for Men: What You Need and When
Most men last thought about vaccination in a school gymnasium. After that the subject disappears, apart from the occasional tetanus shot in an emergency department after a nail through a boot, and the annual flu…
Undetectable Equals Untransmittable: What U=U Really Means
Few findings in medicine have changed the lived experience of a condition as completely as this one, and few are as poorly known outside the people directly affected. The short version is that a person…
HIV Testing for Men: Why Knowing Your Status Changes Everything
A lot of what men believe about HIV was formed in the 1980s and 1990s and has not been updated since. The picture that comes to mind is a fatal illness, a wasting decline, a…
Understanding Syphilis: Stages, Symptoms, and Why Testing Matters
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For most of the last several decades syphilis was something Canadian physicians read about rather than diagnosed. That has changed. Rates have climbed substantially across Alberta and elsewhere in the country in recent years, including…
Testicular Torsion: The Emergency That Can’t Wait Until Morning
Testicular torsion is one of very few genuine emergencies in urology, and it is defined by time more than by anything else. The spermatic cord twists, the blood supply to the testicle is cut off,…
STI Testing at Any Age: Sexual Health Doesn’t Retire
Sexual health screening tends to be treated as a young man's concern. It is offered in a man's twenties, occasionally in his thirties, and then quietly drops off the list — not through any deliberate…
Condoms, Risk, and Realistic Prevention: An Adult Conversation
Most prevention advice about sexually transmitted infections is written as though people behave consistently, plan ahead, and make decisions sober. Real life is less tidy. Condoms get used sometimes and not other times, decisions get…