VIAGRA Info

Two drugs, Levitra and Cialis. They work the same way as Viagra, blocking the same enzyme. Though it’s unlikely any one works better than Viagra overall, slight chemical differences mean that if one brand doesn’t work for a patient, another one might.

A 67-year-old Boston man with diabetes says Viagra only worked for him about 25% of the time, and only when taking the maximum dose of 100 mg. Even then, he says, it resulted in only a “mediocre” erection, while making him feel lightheaded and giving him headaches and an upset stomach. He recently took part in a Levitra study and was shocked by the difference. “I was very, very happy,” says the man, a retired cook.

Early studies show Levitra requires a smaller dose and works faster than Viagra with fewer side effects. In Europe, where Cialis has been studied longer, the drug is dubbed the “weekend pill,” because its effects last up to 36 hours.

On its Web site, Pfizer says Viagra remains effective for about four hours. But doctors say it actually lasts about twice as long. A recent study from Spain reported the drug continued working up to 12 hours after taking it.

However, it’s impossible to know how the drugs really stack up. Nobody has studied them against one another, and because the studies use different participants, the results can’t be compared.

First of all, nothing I am about to say is a substitute for professional medical advice.  This is simply an article about my experiences with Viagra.

I was having difficulty with the quality of my erections.  I wasn’t getting as hard as I used to be, as often, or as long.  So I went to my doctor, and was shocked when he quickly and easily wrote a prescription for Viagra.  I was so shocked, I had considered that he might do this, but it was still a shock to have the prescription at hand.  As he reached for his prescription pad, he gave me the quick run down on the drug.

The first thing he said was… “This drug will not make erections happen, it only lets them happen, by allowing increased blood flow to the penis.”  Elaborating on this he said… “you still need to be well rested etc…”  I did not let on to the doctor that I didn’t know that lack of sleep could hinder erectile functions.  Now from my understanding there are many other things… attraction to your woman and stress, to name a couple.

I had not realized the effects of lack of sleep, and I had been burning the candle at both ends for a long time.  Now, first off, as a typical guy, I am embarrassed about the need of this drug.  So I enter the denial stage, and blame things on lack of sleep, and excessive stress, and a couple of other things.  So for a couple of months, I reduced my stress, got plenty of sleep and had a pretty good sex life.  Everything worked pretty well when I was taking care of my-self, getting plenty of sleep, eating well, and enjoying life.  But things still weren’t perfect.

So I still had this prescription in my wallet.  So I drove to the next town and got the prescription filled (to avoid seeing anybody I knew).  Now the directions said to take a half hour before having sex.  So I popped the little blue pill with a glass of water and jumped in the shower.  By the time I got out of the shower it was “GAME ON!”.

I didn’t find myself much harder than I usually was, but I made love to my woman for hours, and it stayed hard all of the time.  Now this is being told from the perspective of a guy who certainly isn’t impotent, and I’m sure everyone’s experiences will vary.  But for me, this was an incredible experience!!  I sure felt a lot better about myself afterwards.  I guess the moral of the story might be “you don’t have to be completely impotent to want to try this out.”  I think there are a lot of people out there who can benefit from this drug, who don’t know it.  This little blue pill has changed my life!!  And I’m only using it on occasion.  If not, I’d never make it to work in the mornings.  I screw for hours on this stuff, and stay hard for my honey for hours, even after my orgasms.  It has been incredible for me.

Now I mentioned earlier that it didn’t seem to make me much harder, but rather hard longer.  The last couple of times I’ve tried the pill, I’ve noticed it to be much harder than previous times.  I’m also noticing a “residual effect”, that I’m much harder the night after, etc…  This may be physical, and may be psychological, but who cares!!  I love this stuff!!

The size of the dose does matter. In studies of patients who took 50 mg of Viagra, 70% reported improved erections after 12 weeks of use. But that number jumped to 82% with 100 mg, the maximum recommended dose.

If 100 mg is good, you might think 200 mg would be better, but that wasn’t the case. In studies, 200 mg of Viagra didn’t work any better than 100 mg.

In fact, above 100 mg, pretty much all you get out of more Viagra is more side effects. Abnormal vision is a problem only 11% of the time with 100 mg, but jumps to between 40% and 50% with 200 mg, for instance. One-quarter of men who use 200 mg experience facial flushing, while 15% report stomach problems.

There’s been little study of what happens when Viagra is taken at very high doses. But in one small study of 20 healthy men who took between 200 mg and 800 mg of Viagra, 95% experienced some side effect that lasted far longer than usual. Vision problems lasted as long as eight hours among the 50% of men who experienced them. And one subject taking 600 mg reported an erection lasting five hours, a potentially harmful problem.