Erectile Dysfunction & Erection Drugs: Not a lifetime solution

A friend of mine, a man in his early fifties who has beat the living shit out of his body both physically and chemically his entire life got a new girlfriend a few months ago. An instant envy kind of woman. A lady in her 40s, not only is she great looking both in face and body, but she’s got a libido to match that of any man of her age... and perhaps 10 years younger.

My buddy couldn’t keep up. In fact, he couldn’t get it up. The first of my friends to “come out,” he admitted getting a prescription for one of the high-profile medications for his erectile dysfunction from a doctor who was willing to write the script without even the bother of an examination.

$600. Thirty pills at $20 per pill. He bought just 5 to start, though he’s probably sprung for a lot of additional money since; I last saw him and his lady almost two months ago. When we spoke on the phone more recently, he said things were still going “strong.”

I’d be disingenuous if I didn’t report that he was very, very satisfied with the way the drug brought good things back to life. Unlike the pharmaceutical companies, I’m not going to leave something out of my story to make a point. Most of the time, the pills work. And if you’re otherwise in a reasonable state of fitness – and you can afford them – they certainly act well as a quick fix.

While in his 50s now, he certainly wants to make it to his 60s and beyond. I can’t see him – as I cannot see any man – deciding to give up sex at any time while there’s still life in his body.

But with age, comes other issues. If you have not been the paragon of health -- exercise and balanced nutrition – for much of your life, other things will start to go wrong. Diabetes, high blood pressure, atherosclerosis and other heart and circulatory issues will occur. You’ll be taking medications for your life-threatening challenges that can conflict with erectile dysfunction drugs.

In short, you won’t be able to take Viagra®, Cialis®, or any of the other ED drugs because the combination of these with your other medications can kill you – or worse – can cause you to collapse at the most embarrassing moment. And forget about a four-hour erection... you don’t have that kind of luck.

Here’s a brief synopsys:

• You can’t take ED drugs if you’re also taking nitrates that are often prescribed for chest pain in men with angina or other aspects of heart disease, an all-to-common dimension to western longevity.
• You shouldn’t take ED medication if you have liver disease, kidney disease, or either high or low blood pressure.
• If you think your eyesight might normally go bad as you age, PDE5 inhibitors – some oral ED medicines including Viagra – can cause sudden decrease or loss of vision. Hearing, too. I said, IT CAN EFFECT YOUR HEARING, TOO! Viagra’s web site says, “It is not possible to determine whether these events are related directly to the PDE5 inhibitors or to other factors.” Cialis says about the same thing. Great. They don’t even know why.
• Prostate issues and alpha blocker medications. Not the best thing to which to add ED meds.
• Stroke and blood cell issues may also disqualify you from using these drugs.
• Viagra, Cialis and the others don’t protect you against sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. Actually, not taking them does.
• Plus, The most common side effects of VIAGRA are headache, facial flushing, and upset stomach. Less commonly, bluish vision, blurred vision, or sensitivity to light may briefly occur. For Cialis: headache, indigestion, back pain, muscle aches, flushing, and stuffy or runny nose.

Erectile Dysfunction drugs are a wonder of pharmaceutical science. They’d be much more effective if, like your natural biochemistry, they acted only on your dick. But they dose your entire body. Every organ of your body gets a taste of your ED medications and some parts of your body just don’t like it... especially your heart.

We don’t yet have a clear picture of what long-term use of these drugs will be. Even men in their 50s that may have been early adopters of Viagra – introduced barely a dozen years ago – don’t know how they’ll react to its use when they are in their 70s.

Will lifetime users still have the urge? What unintended consequences may we discover? What stress is put on the adrenal glands and liver by dosing them with this additional chemical assault?

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