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.
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.”
WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Republicans voted to dismiss a war powers resolution Wednesday that would have limited President Donald Trump’s ability to conduct further attacks on Venezuela after two GOP senators reversed course on supporting the legislation.
Trump put intense pressure on five Republican senators who joined with Democrats to advance the resolution last week and ultimately prevailed in heading off passage of the legislation. Two of the Republicans — Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Todd Young of Indiana — flipped under the pressure.
Vice President JD Vance had to break the 50-50 deadlock in the Senate on a Republican motion to dismiss the bill.
The outcome of the high-profile vote demonstrated how Trump still has command over much of the Republican conference, yet the razor-thin vote tally also showed the growing concern on Capitol Hill over the president’s aggressive foreign policy ambitions.
Democrats forced the debate after U.S. troops captured Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro in a surprise nighttime raid earlier this month
“Here we have one of the most successful attacks ever and they find a way to be against it. It’s pretty amazing. And it’s a shame,” Trump said at a speech in Michigan Tuesday. He also hurled insults at several of the Republicans who advanced the legislation, calling Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky a “stone cold loser” and Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine “disasters.” Those three Republicans stuck to their support for the legislation.
Trump’s latest comments followed earlier phone calls with the senators, which they described as terse. The president’s fury underscored how the war powers vote had taken on new political significance as Trump also threatens military action to accomplish his goal of possessing Greenland.
The legislation, even if it had cleared the Senate, had virtually no chance of becoming law because it would eventually need to be signed by Trump himself. But it represented both a test of GOP loyalty to the president and a marker for how much leeway the Republican-controlled Senate is willing to give Trump to use the military abroad. Republican angst over his recent foreign policy moves — especially threats of using military force to seize Greenland from a NATO ally — is still running high in Congress.
Hawley, who helped advance the war powers resolution last week, said Trump’s message during a phone call was that the legislation “really ties my hands.” The senator said he had a follow-up phone call with Secretary of State Marco Rubio Monday and was told “point blank, we’re not going to do ground troops.”
The senator added that he also received assurances that the Trump administration will follow constitutional requirements if it becomes necessary to deploy troops again to the South American country.
“We’re getting along very well with Venezuela,” Trump told reporters at a ceremony for the signing of an unrelated bill Wednesday.
As senators went to the floor for the vote Wednesday evening, Young also told reporters he was no longer in support. He said that he had extensive conversations with Rubio and received assurances that the secretary of state will appear at a public hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Young also shared a letter from Rubio that stated the president will “seek congressional authorization in advance (circumstances permitting)” if he engaged in “major military operations” in Venezuela.
The senators also said his efforts were also instrumental in pushing the administration to release Wednesday a 22-page Justice Department memo laying out the legal justification for the snatch-and-grab operation against Maduro.
That memo, which was heavily redacted, indicates that the administration, for now, has no plans to ramp up military operations in Venezuela.
“We were assured that there is no contingency plan to engage in any substantial and sustained operation that would amount to a constitutional war,” according to the memo signed by Assistant Attorney General Elliot Gaiser.
Trump has used a series of legal arguments for his campaign against Maduro.
As he built up a naval force in the Caribbean and destroyed vessels that were allegedly carrying drugs from Venezuela, the Trump administration tapped wartime powers under the global war on terror by designating drug cartels as terrorist organizations.
The administration has claimed the capture of Maduro himself was actually a law enforcement operation, essentially to extradite the Venezuelan president to stand trial for charges in the U.S. that were filed in 2020.
Paul criticized the administration for first describing its military build-up in Caribbean as a counternarcotics operation but now floating Venezuela’s vast oil reserves as a reason for maintaining pressure.
"The bait and switch has already happened,” he said.
Lawmakers, including a significant number of Republicans, have been alarmed by Trump’s recent foreign policy talk. In recent weeks, he has pledged that the U.S. will “run” Venezuela for years to come, threatened military action to take possession of Greenland and told Iranians protesting their government that “ help is on its way.”
Senior Republicans have tried to massage the relationship between Trump and Denmark, a NATO ally that holds Greenland as a semi-autonomous territory. But Danish officials emerged from a meeting with Vance and Rubio Wednesday saying a “fundamental disagreement” over Greenland remains.
"What happened tonight is a roadmap to another endless war," Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said at a news conference following the vote.
More than half of U.S. adults believe President Donald Trump has “gone too far” in using the U.S. military to intervene in other countries, according to a new AP-NORC poll.
Last week's procedural vote on the war powers resolution was supposed to set up hours of debate and a vote on final passage. But Republican leaders began searching for a way to defuse the conflict between their members and Trump as well as move on quickly to other business.
Once Hawley and Young changed their support for the bill, Republicans were able to successfully challenge whether it was appropriate when the Trump administration has said U.S. troops are not currently deployed in Venezuela.
“We’re not currently conducting military operations there,” said Senate Majority Leader John Thune in a floor speech. “But Democrats are taking up this bill because their anti-Trump hysteria knows no bounds.”
Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine, who has brought a series of war powers resolutions this year, accused Republicans of burying a debate about the merits of an ongoing campaign of attacks and threats against Venezuela.
"If this cause and if this legal basis were so righteous, the administration and its supporters would not be afraid to have this debate before the public and the United States Senate," he said in a floor speech.
Kaine vowed to force votes on war powers resolutions that would apply to a number of potential military conflicts, including Greenland. House Democrats have also filed a similar war powers resolution and can force a vote on it as soon as next week.
Associated Press writers Josh Goodman, Lisa Mascaro, Mary Clare Jalonick and Joey Cappelletti in Washington and Bill Barrow in Atlanta contributed to this report.
President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., talks with reporters outside the Senate chamber during a vote at the Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., speaks with reporters at the Senate Subway on Capitol Hill, Thursday, Jan. 8, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., speaks during a news conference at the Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)
