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…
Emerging Treatments for Depression: Separating Evidence from Hype
Depression treatment has genuinely changed over the past decade, and for men who have tried two or three antidepressants without much benefit, that matters. It also means the subject now attracts an enormous amount of…
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…
When Should You Get Tested? Understanding STI Window Periods
The impulse after a worrying encounter is to get tested immediately, and it is a reasonable one. The difficulty is that a test taken the next morning is largely uninformative. A negative result at that…
Pelvic Floor Training for Men: Exercises That Actually Work
28 September, 2026 Dr. Raymond Nash Medical Overactive bladder Psychological Stress Urinary incontinence 9:40 am
Pelvic floor training has a reputation problem among men. It is widely assumed to be something recommended after childbirth, and the exercises are usually explained in a single sentence at the end of an appointment:…
Urethral Stricture Disease: Causes, Symptoms, and Repair Options
The stream weakens gradually enough that most men cannot say when it started. It takes longer, it splits or sprays, it stops and restarts, and eventually there is a sense that the bladder never quite…
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…
Understanding Overactive Bladder in Men: Urgency, Frequency, and Relief
Overactive bladder rearranges a man's life quietly. He knows where the washrooms are on every route he drives. He stops drinking anything after mid-afternoon so the night is manageable. He picks the aisle seat, declines…