Conditions such as diabetes and multiple sclerosis may produce nerve damage which affects your ability to develop and keep an erection. Surgery, many injuries, and cancer radiation treatment to the pelvic area may cause some damage to the nerves running to the penis. Problems with those small blood vessels which supply blood to the penis can be a cause of erection problems. For example, hardening of the arteries - also known as atherosclerosis - may make it challenging for a man to have an erection. Less well known is the fact that long-distance bicycle riding on a hard, narrow racing bike saddle may increase a man's chance of having an erection problem due to damage to the blood vessels leading to his penis.
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