new uses for viagra that you may not have heard about

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(clicky)some new uses for viagra that you might not have heard about

as spock would say, "fascinating!"

This is good news. I really need to keep my cut flower fresh!

ruveyn

SEE WHAT BLOOD FLOW CAN DO!

when i first went to a health food store to seek Maca, they told me that weightlifters [ab]use viagra in order to boost their cardiovascular ability to lift weights. i know the combo of viagra and maca is literally explosive!

Maybe some of you might be interested in a film called "Holy water", it is about a group of robbers in Ireland who hold up the truck which takes viagra to the airport. They panic and tip the kegs of viagra down a well. It then contaminates the drinking water for a whole village. By the way it is a comedy not a porn film.

Sorry I made a typo the film is holy water and not holy smoke

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if it were a pink pic it shoulda been called "holey poke." anyways i wonder what would happen if a large quantity of the stuff did get into the water supply?

I doubt if it would turn the whole town into sex mad people, I suspect that the little blue pill would give me a stinking headache.

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luckily so far, it has not given either of my heads an ache.

Years ago, I had a slightly crazy doctor who had a theory about CFS being related to nitric oxide in the brain, and since V blocks an enzyme that breaks down NO I got to try it briefly (it didn't cure what I needed cured). It didn't induce any randiness at all -- it was more like being 12 again and 'pitching a tent in the pants' for the slightest of reasons (or no reason at all).

if your tentmaker was so ready to pitch a tent, how could that not be randy?

As I understand it, it's that the tent pitcher is activated by the dilation of blood vessels, and nitric oxide is a powerful vasodilater, and V inhibits the enzyme that breaks down NO. So, it's purely a physical reaction, the same as how other drugs can cause "priapism" (WikiLink).

That reminds me, I heard/read a story about the crazy urologist who discovered that blood vessel dilation was the key to erection. While presenting his theory at a medical conference he dropped his drawers and injected his 'member' with a vasodilator drug (viagra didn't exists yet), and then showed off the results to the audience.

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i wonder what the audience thought.

it helps treat prostate cancer by giving you a stiffy... that you can't satisfy due to the pain in the prostate.


talk about the cure being as bad as the disease

Off label uses for pharmaceuticals? Will wonders never cease! [/sarcasm]

In all seriousness, none of this should suprise us (except maybe its use as an outrageously expensive cut flower preservative...). The human body is an enormously complex network of systems. Drugs which have an effect on one part of one system are very likely to demonstrate effects on other parts of that same system, and follow on effects on the systems with which it interacts.

Aspirin as prevention for heart attack and stroke is based on what was originally an off-label use of the drug. But low-dose aspirin isn't as sexy as viagara, so we don't give it the same attention. (shrug)

After hearing all this wonderful news about Viagra, dare I ask - are there any negative side effects?

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

yes, it may cause a blue tinge to appear in some people's vision - according to reports by Pfizer and subsequent studies, ocular side effects occur in:

about 3 percent of men taking doses of 25-50 mg
about 11 percent taking 100 mg doses
about 50 percent of men taking 200 mg
nearly all men taking 600 to 800 mg.

why does Viagra cause vision changes? Viagra is effective on erectile dysfunction because it inhibits phosphodiesterase 5 (PDE-5), an enzyme that enhances the effects of nitric oxide, which is released during sexual stimulation to relax the smooth muscle of the penis and facilitate blood inflow. However, the drug also has a milder inhibiting effect on PDE-6, an enzyme actively present in retinal photoreceptors. this causes an increase in the concentration of cyclicGMP, resulting in a depolarization of the rod cell – and increased light sensitivity and the infamous "blue vision."

when do side effects occur? The side effects are short-lived and generally peak within 1-2 hours after the drug is taken. what is the long-term vision damage? so far, no long-term retinal damage has been reported, but then again, long-term electroretinograms (ERG) have not been done, says Michael F. Marmor, MD, a Stanford retinal specialist who has published studies on the ophthalmic effects of Viagra. he believes the drug could conceivably result in lasting damage to photoreceptors, so he recommends that you avoid it if you have macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa or other retinal disease. (meanwhile, Viagra's own label issues warnings to patients with existing AMD or retinitis pigmentosa because they were not studied in past clinical trials.)

also, it may cause other vision/hearing acuity problems which may be permanent, likely caused by blown-out capillaries hemorrhaging blood and destroying wholesale numbers of cells therein. sildenafil and other PDE-5-based drugs do not discriminate which blood vessels they do their nitric oxide magic on, so the fragile blood vessels of the hearing and visual mechanism could be collaterally damaged. these are rare problems but they do occur with some regularity in the literature. so it would seem some men might ask themselves, "do i wanna see and hear well, or do i wanna cum?" what a choice.