It's a reality that premature ejaculation is often undiagnosed. One of the cause is because men confuse it with erectile dysfunction. They don't know the difference. If they sometime have premature ejaculation, consider themselves as impotent, or sexually dysfunctional. As a consequence, when visit their health care and try to explain their problem, they use terms like impotence, or other related, that don't really apply to their condition.

Patients confusion and the conjuncture that doctors don't always take time to fully investigate what's happening, could rise in a incorrect erectile dysfunction diagnose.

Another situation that can generate confusion, is the fact that over time premature ejaculation sufferers, over many years, will often develop erectile dysfunction as a secondary problem. Their permanent fear of ejaculating rapidly, will sometimes cause them to lose the penis erection. In other words, they may develop symptoms of erectile dysfunction along with their premature ejaculation.

It's a fact that the two conditions can interact with each other in a number of different ways. Very often men present to a doctor saying, "I lose my erection and I ejaculate very rapidly". The problem is which one was first? Because if they can't have the erection, they can't perform sexually. In this situation the ejaculation problem is kind of more hypothetical. If patients say "I ejaculate very rapidly and I lose my erection", then probably it's about a premature ejaculation situation.