Slow-selling ‘female Viagra’ is giving Valeant a headache

NY Post ^ | November 17, 2015 | Staff

[C19fan]

Sorry, Valeant. The ladies just aren’t feeling it.

Addyi, the so-called “female Viagra” pill made by Valeant Pharmaceuticals’ Sprout unit, is off to a slow start, with doctors writing just 227 prescriptions in its first few weeks on the market, according to a new report.

That compares to the more than half a million men who got prescriptions for Viagra in its first month on the market in 1998, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday.

[C19fan]

Where are the Valeant ads during sporting events? The company should tag team with the boner ads. It sounds like the drug is a dud anyway marginally more effective than placebo.

[HamiltonJay]

What? Sex isn’t as important to women as men??????? There’s something shocking! Shocking I tell you...

[tatown]

Yeah I find that impossible to believe. /s

[txrefugee]

The old are too sick, the middle aged are too tired and the young are too distracted with social media, so good luck thinking those corny ED ads are going to sell expensive sex drugs of marginal benefit.

[rbg81]

What they REALLY needed to sell is a pill that will give a woman a headache (or other excuse not to have sex) on demand.

[PIF]

Unlike Viagra, this drug has to be taken daily, else it has no effect.

[MrB]

Yep, you “hit” it right on the head, there...

That’s what I was thinking when I read this - women who don’t have high libido are not going to seek out a libido enhancing drug.

Also, studies show the priorities of men and women as follows:

Men:
Sex, food, sleep
Women:
Sleep, food, sex

[digger48]

Where are the Valeant ads during sporting events?

'cause women should be in the kitchen making sammiches during commercials

[anymouse]

They should have made it out of cubic zirconium. ;)

[jsanders2001]

I could just see them doing a Valeant commercial with a middle aged women with her perv face on like this looking at a pool boy

It would have looked more than creepy. no wonder it never went anywhere...

[SeeSharp]

From the article...

The sex-drive drug, known as flibanserin, improved the sex drive in only about 10 percent more patients that those who took a placebo, Bloomberg noted.

And Addyi — which works on brain chemistry rather than blood flow to the genitals — can cause low blood pressure, nausea, dizziness and fainting.

What’s worse? Women who take Addyi are supposed to refrain from drinking alcohol.

The Food and Drug Administration rejected the controversial drug twice before finally approving it on Aug. 18 under intense lobbying from those who accused the agency of ignoring the sexual needs of women.

Male Viagra is a one-off pill that can be taken when the mood strikes. But Addyi works more like an antidepressant that must be taken every day, so the monthly cost can run a whopping $780.

Bottle of MadDog is still about three bucks right?

[Jim from C-Town]

Any man could have and should have known that fact.

[Kartographer]

"'cause women should be in the kitchen making sammiches during commercials"

Especially if they have sister wives!

[TADSLOS]

They should have made it out of cubic zirconium. ;)

Thread WINNER!

[Lazamataz]

I had sex once. It was awful.

[piasa]

'cause women should be in the kitchen making sammiches during commercials

That'll work out fine so long as you guys walk our little sissy dogs at halftime.

[freedumb2003]

>>Where are the Valeant ads during sporting events? <<

Or ruining forever Elvis songs.

[piasa]

Women: Chocolate, Sleep, chocolate, dinner, chocolate, wine, headache.

[Responsibility2nd]

Hand cramped up?

I hate it when that happens.

[TADSLOS]

Headache?