Viagra was originally a heart medication so this is really no big surprises.
Increases blood flow.
Never a bad thing…
Except for a sucking chest wound… then it’s bad.
A student who interned in our department had a father who was a chemist at the lab where Viagra was invented. This is the dad’s story:
They ran a clinical trial to see if Viagra would be a good blood pressure medicine.
At the end of the trial they asked the participants for their extra pills back.
For some reason none of the male participants were giving their pills up.
Surprised the researchers tried to figure out what was going on. Finally one of the trial participants told them he could go all night after taking the pills.
Well then the researchers figured out there is a market...
“Viagra was originally a heart medication so this is really no big surprises.”
Actually no. It was originally looked at for Pulmonary Hypertension. Close but no cigar. Cialis is the number one medication for this today in addition for erectile dysfunction. Both are in the same class of drugs but Cialis has a longer half life and thus the dosing is less frequent.