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How Many P-Shots Can You Have?

Reviewed by Daniel Moghadam, M.D.4 min read
The short answer

There is no fixed limit, but repeat treatment should follow your response rather than a schedule. Because pooled trial data shows benefit building to 24 weeks, reassessment at around six months makes more sense than early re-treatment.

Why There Is No Fixed Number

PRP uses your own platelets, so there is no cumulative dose limit in the way there is with some medications. The constraint is not safety in that sense — it is whether further treatment is likely to add anything.

The pooled trial data is the useful guide here. Across seven randomized trials covering 660 patients, there was no significant difference from control at 4 weeks, with benefit appearing at 12 weeks and sustained at 24. Treatment builds over months.

That timeline argues against frequent repeat sessions. Re-treating at six or eight weeks means intervening before the first treatment has demonstrated what it will do.

A reasonable approach

Treat, then reassess at around 12 to 24 weeks using how you are actually doing rather than a calendar.

If there has been meaningful improvement, maintenance can be considered when it declines. If there has been none by 24 weeks, further sessions of the same treatment are unlikely to change that, and the more useful conversation is about why.

When More Is Not Better

If two properly spaced treatments have produced no measurable change, the honest conclusion is usually that PRP is not addressing your underlying cause — not that you need a third.

Common reasons PRP does not help:

  • Advanced vascular disease — a circulation problem that needs medical management
  • Poorly controlled diabetes — affecting both vessels and nerves
  • Medication effects — several common drug classes cause ED, and no injection overcomes an ongoing pharmacological effect
  • Low testosterone — a treatable cause that PRP does not address
  • Psychological factors — which respond to a different kind of help

Each of those has its own treatment, and identifying it is more valuable than another session. This is why the erectile dysfunction evaluation matters more than the injection.

Safety of Repeat Treatment

Across the published studies, side effects were described as mild and transient with no major adverse events, and repeat treatment did not raise particular safety concerns. The material is autologous, so allergy and rejection are not issues.

The practical limits are the blood draw itself — not appropriate with significant anaemia — and platelet disorders, active infection, or anticoagulation that cannot be paused.

What We Do

We do not sell packages of sessions upfront. We treat, reassess at an interval that lets the treatment demonstrate what it does, and recommend more only if the response justifies it. If it does not, we will say so rather than continue selling.

See how long a P-Shot lasts and whether it is worth it.

Sources

  1. Efficacy of PRP alone or with low-intensity shockwave therapy in erectile dysfunction: systematic review and meta-analysis of seven randomized controlled trials (660 patients), 2025.
  2. Efficacy of platelet-rich plasma in erectile dysfunction: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (413 patients), 2024.

Reviewed by Daniel Moghadam, M.D.

Founder and medical director of Modern Aesthetica in Beverly Hills. Dr. Moghadam performs all injectable procedures personally. This article is educational and is not a substitute for a consultation — what is appropriate for you depends on examination.

Related Questions

There is no fixed limit, since PRP uses your own platelets. The practical question is whether further treatment will add anything. Because benefit builds to around 24 weeks in the trial data, reassessment at that point makes more sense than early repeat sessions.

Long enough for the first to demonstrate what it does — the pooled trials found benefit at 12 and 24 weeks, and no significant difference at 4 weeks. Re-treating at six or eight weeks intervenes before you know the result.

If two properly spaced treatments produced no measurable change, a third is unlikely to. The more useful step is identifying why — advanced vascular disease, poorly controlled diabetes, a medication effect, low testosterone or psychological factors each need different treatment.

The published studies report mild, transient side effects with no major adverse events, and repeat treatment raises no particular safety concern. The material is your own blood. It is avoided with platelet disorders, significant anaemia, active infection or unmanageable anticoagulation.

No. We treat, reassess at a sensible interval, and recommend further sessions only if your response justifies it. Selling a course upfront removes the incentive to tell you honestly when something is not working.

Reassess, don't just repeat

If a treatment is not working, the useful question is why — not how many more sessions to buy.