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Posted on 10/19/2007 7:46:36 AM PDT by Cagey
29 Cases Reported By Users Of ED And Hypertension Drugs Such As Cialis, Levitra And Revatio
(WebMD) Viagra and other impotence drugs are about to bear new warnings that users may experience sudden hearing loss.
It's not clear that the drugs truly trigger hearing loss, but the Food and Drug Administration decided Thursday to add a warning about the possible risk after counting 29 reports of the problem since 1996 among users of this family of medicines.
The impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra will bear the warnings. So will Revatio, a drug for pulmonary hypertension, which contains the same ingredient as Viagra.
Viagra's label already mentioned hearing loss as a possibility, because a few cases were reported during initial testing of that drug. But given that hearing loss is a risk of advancing age and certain conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, that can lead to impotence, it wasn't clear if the link was real.
That still isn't clear, said FDA ear nose and throat specialist Dr. Robert Boucher.
But in poring over FDA's database of possible drug reactions, what struck him was these 29 reports said the hearing loss occurred without hours to two days of taking one of the drugs.
“We don't know enough to say that it's ironclad caused by the drugs, but we see enough to say we can't ignore it either,” he said.
The reports involve hearing loss in one ear, which in a third of cases was temporary.
FDA urged patients who experience any hearing problems - loss or ringing in the ears - to promptly call their doctors and stop taking the impotence drugs.
Tell that to the Israeli Defense Force
I REALLY HATE those ED commercials. The Black couple are extremely annoying because the woman keeps stroking the male, reminds me of my sister’s 8th ex-husband who was a serial fondler.
amazing to me that the fda would approve a drug that overides the God given turn off of some mens sexual functions. Obviously, some men have had plenty of sex and need to calm down and find themselves...and here comes the drug companies to keep their hornyness going!
Someone’s in the kitchen with Dinah
Someone’s in the kitchen I know-o-o-o
Someone’s in the kitchen with DINAH
strummin’ on the ol’ banjo
Singin’ fee-fi-fiddle-e-i-o
fee-fi-fiddle-e-o-o-o-o
fee-fi-fiddle-e-i-o
strummin’ on the ol’ banjo
My hearing was OK, but I got a stiff neck.
...for a whole week.
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Lucy?????
Serial fondler. Now that’s a howler!
No sofaman, circumcision does not cause girliness.
I was saying that it’s possible to put something
into a pill (that every male in our nation seems
to be taking) that would make them effeminate.
God’s blessings to the manly men and women of the
Israeli Defense Force. May they have the wisdom
of solomon, the strengh of Samson and the virility
of Caleb.
Ethel????
The popularity of ED drugs is more proof that
(some) Boomers would rather stay up and grow up.
We’re doomed!
CORRECTION
The popularity of ED drugs is more proof that
(some) Boomers would rather stay up THAN grow up.
That’s what I meant. Good thing you all can
read my mind.
I wouldn’t know, I’ve never needed a drug to get very happy about my wife.
No, it’s more proof that we have too much obsessing over the male reproductive organ.
And while we’re on that subject, let us hasten to point out that is the function of this organ, precisely, and not to pillage others.
You may have a point, one of the contradictions is Priapism. I used to suffer from that naturally during my college years and found it rather pleasurable. The wife remembers too and told me if I tried that medication she’d divorce me and take all my assets except my prescription.
Can you hear me now?
I missed it!
“My mother told me I’d go blind, not deaf!”
“I’m sorry honey, I’m having trouble hearing you. Could you please speak into my microphone?”
All this time I figured it was the garage stereo . . .
LOL! Sounds about like my husband!
You know that awful joke about the old man who got an implant and married a hottie?
His friends asked how it worked and he told them to erect you snap, to deflate you clap.
When they saw him after the hornymoon, he was exhausted. He described it as:
snap, clap, snap, clap, snap, clap...
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