Diabetic left impotent by his condition tells how he hopes a £1,200 P-Shot will restore his sex life

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Diabetic left impotent by his condition tells how he hopes a £1,200 P-Shot will restore his sex life

2018-12-21 14:58 Last Updated At：14:59

Jimmy Croxton is hoping the treatment – a variation of the Vampire Facelift made famous by Kim Kardashian – will help him become a dad.

A diabetic sales executive who feared he would never father a child after his condition left him impotent has revealed how a £1,200 treatment, called a P-Shot- developed from an anti-ageing facial used by Kim Kardashian – could restore his chances of having a family within minutes.

Jimmy Croxton and his girlfriend Natalie Wilshaw, 33, a team leader at a mental health facility, who live together in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, started trying for a family shortly after they met in Stoke-on-Trent three years ago.

But fluctuating blood sugar levels caused by his type 1 diabetes – a metabolic disorder which results from the body being unable to produce enough of the insulin hormone controlling blood glucose – had damaged nerves in his penis, leading to erectile dysfunction and problems ejaculating.

Jimmy, 33, who had his first P-Shot last month, said he is already experiencing enhanced sexual performance and now hopes a further shot in January will mean he can ejaculate normally, adding: “If Natalie and I can then conceive, it will mean the world to us both to have a child together.”

Speaking out to encourage more men with erectile problems like him to seek help, rather than suffering in silence, Jimmy explained how the cutting-edge procedure – which takes just a few minutes to perform – works by stimulating the growth of new tissue and rejuvenating the sexual organ.

Jimmy, who heard about the P-Shot through a friend, said: “Natalie and I have wanted to have children for some time, so I leapt at the chance of trying it.”

He continued: “There is a lot of stigma surrounding erectile dysfunction and it’s something that people often treat quite flippantly.

“But it’s stopped us from having kids and that’s no laughing matter.”

Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at 18, after losing five stone weight within just a few months and noticing a dramatic increase in his need to pass urine, Jimmy was told he would need to inject himself with insulin four times a day for the rest of his life.

But he experienced no adverse side effects from the condition until 2010, when, living a bachelor life, without a serious partner, he began to experience difficulties with his sexual performance.

He explained: “I wasn’t a huge womaniser, going out on the town each night looking to pick up girls.

“But when I did spend the night with a woman I would sometimes have problems keeping an erection which, when you’re a young man, can be very tough.”

Over the next few months, having been told by his GP that his diabetes was behind his difficulties, Jimmy’s problem became worse -with around half his sexual encounters resulting in a flop.

Mortified, he started warning potential sexual partners well before any intimate encounters that his condition often made love-making a challenge.

“It’s very difficult explaining it to girls, because there is still so much stigma about erectile dysfunction,” said Jimmy.

He added: “People think it’s some big joke, making it very embarrassing to explain, especially if you don’t know the person that well.”

Although he was prescribed four Viagra pills a month, to help temporarily relieve erectile dysfunction, they had little effect and his relationships with women began to suffer because of his sexual performance.

He said: “When I was about 26 I was going out with a 19-year-old and, I think because she was so young, she just didn’t understand why our lovemaking wasn’t working.”

He continued: “The relationship fell apart for several reasons, but that was definitely a big one.”

Worse still, when Jimmy was 27, the nerve damage resulting from his diabetes meant he stopped being able to ejaculate.

He continued: “I would have the sensation of the orgasm without releasing any sperm.”

He continued: “It was very unnerving and I knew immediately that this could be a big problem if I ever wanted to have kids.”

With no one serious on the horizon, Jimmy decided to tackle this problem when he had to – only to fall madly in love with Natalie soon afterwards and to realise he wanted her to be the mother of his children.

But Jimmy’s problems meant they could not conceive naturally, so the couple began looking into adoption.

“It was quite upsetting for us both,” recalled Jimmy, who still enjoys an active sex life with Natalie, despite his difficulties.

Then, a friend told him about a radical new treatment for men, designed to restore erectile function, and Jimmy was keen to try it.

After a consultation in London at the Elite Aesthetics clinic, he booked in for his first P-Shot, which takes plasma – the element of the blood that stimulates tissue growth – from the blood and injects it into the penis, with the aim of repairing his wasted nerve endings.

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The procedure is a variation on the so-called Vampire Facial, which Kim Kardashian posted a now infamous snap of herself undergoing in 2013.

Within a few days, Jimmy’s erections were lasting longer and Natalie remarked that his penis was looking plumper.

“It has really given me a confidence boost,” he said.

“Having the procedure has also opened my eyes to the damage I was doing to myself by not maintaining my sugar levels better, so I have gone on a strict diet now, cutting out fruits and weighing every meal I eat, so I know how much insulin to inject myself with.”

Still having trouble ejaculating, Jimmy now hopes that a follow-up P-Shot next month will restore that function, too – giving the couple a fighting chance of conceiving naturally.

Jimmy added: “Natalie is the love of my life, but I feel this has held us back from what we really want – which is to have kids together.”

Jimmy added: “Getting back to my old self would be a dream come true.”

Dr Shirin Lakhani, who administer Jimmy with the P-Shot at Elite Aesthetics, said: “The P-Shot is an effective treatment for erectile dysfunction due to local causes, including nerve damage or vascular issues and diseases such as diabetes.

“By improving the blood supply and triggering tissue regeneration patient’s do notice an improvement in their ability to achieve and maintain firmness of erections which, in Jimmy’s case has had a huge impact on his life.”

USC cancels graduation ceremony and dozens are arrested on other campuses as anti-war protests grow

2024-04-26 10:58 Last Updated At：11:01

The University of Southern California canceled its main graduation ceremony and dozens more college students were arrested at other campuses nationwide Thursday as protests against the Israel-Hamas war continued to spread.

College officials across the U.S. are worried the ongoing protests could disrupt plans for commencement ceremonies next month. Some universities have called in police to break up the demonstrations, resulting in ugly scuffles and hundreds of arrests, while others appeared content to wait out student protests as the final days of the semester ticked down.

Schools such as Columbia University in New York continued to negotiate with protesters who first set up an encampment last week. At California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, faculty members met with students who have barricaded themselves inside a campus building since Monday, trying to negotiate a solution. The campus was shut down earlier this week with classes moved online.

Other universities are rewriting their rules to ban encampments and moving final exams to new locations.

But encampments and protests continued to spring up Thursday. At Indiana University Bloomington, a tent encampment popped up before police with shields and batons shoved into a line of protesters, arresting 33 people.

At the City College of New York, hundreds of students who were gathered on the lawn beneath the Harlem campus’ famed gothic buildings erupted in cheers after a small contingent of police officers retreated from the scene. In one corner of the quad, a “security training” was held among students.

Police arrested one protester and tore down tents at the University of Connecticut Thursday, while demonstrators at Stanford University rallied on a day when newly admitted students visited the campus.

Students protesting the war are demanding schools cut financial ties to Israel and divest from companies enabling the conflict. Some Jewish students say the protests have veered into antisemitism and made them afraid to set foot on campus.

USC announced the cancellation of the May 10 graduation ceremony a day after more than 90 protesters were arrested on campus. The university said it will still host dozens of commencement events, including all the traditional individual school commencement ceremonies.

Tensions were already high after USC canceled a planned commencement speech by the school’s pro-Palestinian valedictorian, citing safety concerns.

“We understand that this is disappointing; however, we are adding many new activities and celebrations to make this commencement academically meaningful, memorable, and uniquely USC," the university said in a statement Thursday.

The Los Angeles Police Department said 93 people were arrested Wednesday night during a campus protest for allegedly trespassing. One person was arrested on allegations of assault with a deadly weapon.

At Emerson College in Boston, 108 people were arrested overnight at an alleyway encampment. Video shows police first warning students in the alleyway to leave. Students linked arms to resist officers, who moved forcefully through the crowd and threw some protesters to the ground.

“As the night progressed, it got tenser and tenser. There were just more cops on all sides. It felt like we were being slowly pushed in and crushed,” said Ocean Muir, a sophomore.

Muir said police lifted her by her arms and legs and carried her away. Along with other students, Muir was charged Thursday with trespassing and disorderly conduct.

Emerson College leaders had warned students that the alley was a public right-of-way and city authorities had threatened to take action if the protesters didn’t leave. Emerson canceled classes Thursday, and Boston police said four officers suffered injuries that were not life-threatening during the confrontation.

The University of Texas at Austin campus was much calmer Thursday after 55 people were arrested a day earlier — 26 of whom had no affiliation with the university, according to a statement to the campus by university president Jay Hartzell. University officials pulled back barricades and allowed demonstrators onto the main square beneath the school’s iconic clock tower.

Thursday's gathering of students and some faculty protested both the war and Wednesday’s arrests, when state troopers in riot gear and on horseback bulldozed into protesters, forcing hundreds of students off the school’s main lawn.

At Emory University in Atlanta, local and state police swept in to dismantle a camp. Some officers carried semiautomatic weapons, and video shows officers using a stun gun on one protester whom they had pinned to the ground. The university said late Thursday in a statement that objects were thrown at officers and they deployed “chemical irritants” as a crowd control measure.

Jail records showed 22 people arrested by Emory police were charged with disorderly conduct. Emory said it had been notified that 28 people were arrested, including 20 members of the university community, and some had been released as of nighttime.

Protesters at Emory chanted slogans supporting Palestinians and opposing a public safety training center being built in Atlanta. The two movements are closely entwined in Atlanta, where there have been years of “Stop Cop City” activism against the center.

Many colleges, including Harvard University, were choosing not to take immediate action against protesters who had set up tents, even though they were openly defying campus rules. And some colleges were making new rules, like Northwestern University, which hastily changed its student code of conduct Thursday morning to bar tents on its suburban Chicago campus.

George Washington University said it would move its law school finals from a building next to the protest encampment to a new location because of the noise.

The current wave of protests was inspired by events at Columbia University, where police cleared an encampment and arrested more than 100 people last week, only for students to defiantly put up tents again, in an area where many are set to graduate in front of families in a few weeks.

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said the ability to embrace student voices and different perspectives was a hallmark of the nation’s growth but warned authorities wouldn’t tolerate hate, discrimination or threats of violence.

Since the Israel-Hamas war began, the U.S. Education Department has launched civil rights investigations into dozens of universities and schools in response to complaints of antisemitism or Islamophobia. Among those under investigation are many colleges facing protests, including Harvard and Columbia.

Perry reported from Meredith, New Hampshire. Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists in various locations including Stefanie Dazio, Kathy McCormack, Jim Vertuno, Acacia Coronado, Sudhin Thanawala, Jeff Amy, Mike Stewart, Collin Binkley, Carolyn Thompson, Jake Offenhartz, Jesse Bedayn and Sophia Tareen.