Pfizer, who manufacture the erectile function drug Viagra are advocating the use of a special questionnaire that can properly identify if you suffer from erectile dysfunction and to what degree. The questionnaire is called the QEQ which stands for the Quality of Erection Questionnaire and consists of six simple questions for men to answer about their erectile function.

One of the biggest problems when speaking to patients about erectile dysfunction is evaluating the extent of the problem as many men are not totally honest or feel embarrassed to be specific about their erection and erectile function. By the use of the QEQ, doctors will be able to get a better idea of the problem and therefore diagnose the problem better and know whether to prescribe erectile dysfunction drugs and in what doses.

The results give you different gradings depending on your answers and if you get to Grade 4 you are basically OK and if you don’t then you can be considered to be suffering from erectile dysfunction and you could possibly be cured with impotence drugs like Viagra, Cialis or Levitra.

In the future of the use of the QEQ becomes widespread it may become the standard measuring tool of erection quality and function and thus be used by all doctors over the world. The QEQ looks at sexual satisfaction erection quality, erection hardness, erection onset and lastly erection duration. The QEQ also is working well because it is a self assessment of erection quality which is likely to be the most reliable source of information as opposed to a doctors perception of the problem through a embarrassed and humiliated man.
Research done on the QEQ shows that there is definite link between the increase in a man’s QEQ grading and his emotional self-esteem, his confidence and his satisfaction with his sexual relationship.