Viagra, Cialis Didn’t Show Eye Damage in Study

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Erection Drugs Viagra, Cialis Didn’t Show Eye Damage in Study
By Elizabeth Lopatto

April 13 (Bloomberg) --Men taking Pfizer Inc.’s Viagra and Eli Lilly & Co.’s Cialis daily for sexual impotence had no permanent damage to their eyes in a study that followed reports linking the pills to blue-tinged vision.

The erection drugs can cause changes in light perception right away that clear a few hours later, said Raj Maturi, an author of the Lilly-funded research and an ophthalmologist at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis.

The study, published online today in the Archives of Ophthalmology, found no evidence of permanent visual changes in patients who took the drugs every day for six months, Maturi said. About 6.2 percent of U.S. men are unable to achieve an erection, with rates rising to 16.7 percent in ages 60 to 69, according to the National Institutes of Health.

“The average patient should be relieved these drugs don’t cause significant visual dysfunction,” Maturi said in a telephone interview today. “And he can be comfortable taking them in the long-term.”

No problem here!!!

[wyldwolf]

1. 1970s: If you do that, you'll go blind! 2000s: If you take that, you'll go blind!

[SpiralHawk]

2. If you swallow Viagra-Oxcontin freak Limbaugh's kool-aid, then you are blind

You are a republicon homelander -- and it don't get any more LIMP or LAME than that.

[wyldwolf]

4. Not sure what to think of your reply. Perhaps you'd like to explain it?

What does the OP have to do with Limbaugh?

[SpiralHawk]

5. Limbaugh not only has an oxycontin addiction, he is a viagra devotee

...not that there's anything wrong with a 'family values' republicon draft dodger being a war monger or a drug consumer...but most Americans have little regard for hypocrites

[wyldwolf]

7. ha... never knew Limbaugh was on viagara

[SpiralHawk]

10. He got busted for something else one time, coming back from some notorious land

for some reason. Memory fails. But at any rate, when his bags were searched one of the drugs that fell out was viagra. If you want the facts you'll have to google. I must attend to backlog of work...

[Vinca]

3. Well what result would you expect since it was run by the drug company?

[Bucky]

6. Not true. I played with viagra and I poked my eye out

It was a brown eye

[underpants]

8. letting the obvious joke pass

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Showing So Much Maturity

LOL! I probably was thinking the exact same joke.
GAC