What is Viagra?.
Viagra is a proven and reliable medication, which improves men’s sexual function aiding to live a valid sexual life.
Is Viagra a sexual stimulator?
NO, VIAGRA IS NOT A STIMULATOR. All happens naturally. Viagra acts just when it is needed, but not when there is no necessity.
What is the mechanism of action of Viagra?
Use of Viagra results in distention of arteries and a larger blood reflux to the penis. Viagra takes action when there is sexual excitement, without it no erection emerges. Whenever a sexual intercourse is finished, erection of the penis stops in a natural way. The action of Viagra is not connected with affect on sexual drive or hormones.
To what extent does Viagra efficient?
Viagra improves erection in 76% cases.
Does Viagra increase the possibility to fulfill a sexual act?
Yes. With the use of Viagra the number of successful sexual acts reaches six a month. 89% partners noticed the improvement of erection with the use of Viagra.
Does Viagra act with severe disruptions of erection?
Yes, up to 60% men with severe disruptions of erections with the use of Viagra estimate their erection as good and excellent.
What are the results of a long-term treatment?
97% of men taking Viagra during 2 years and more notice the improvement of erection.
I took Viagra once, but it did not act. Does it mean that it is no good for me?
For the most men Viagra acts after the first or the second intake. The best effect is observed after the third or the fourth intake, that is why it is very important to go on with the treatment. Of course, you must keep the recommendations of your doctor on Viagra use.
How fast does Viagra start, and how long does it act?
The action of Viagra starts after 30 minutes and lasts, at least, 4 hours after intake.
I have heard that Viagra negatively influences the heart.
The data of clinical investigations (application of Viagra during >11000 patient-years; placebo— >700 patient-years) confirm the absence of an elevated risk of the development of cardio-vascular diseases due to Viagra use.
How often one may take Viagra?
Not more than once a day.
Which counterindications are there for Viagra use?
Some severe diseases in which sexual activity is counterindicated: unstable stenocardia, severe cardiac insufficiency, severe hepatic insufficiency, hypotension, insult or myocardial infarction; pigmentation of the retina, hypersensitivity to sildenaphyl and other components of Viagra.
A doctor of which health profession may prescribe Viagra?
Doctors of any health profession, but first of all urologists, sexual consultants, andrologists, endocrinologists and cardiologists.
How does Viagra act on practically healthy people?
Tests on healthy people are meant that there is a program to sell the medication to healthy people. But representatives of “Pfizer” inform that the company does not program to do it. Viagra is meant for men with erection disorders.
Does Viagra enhance sexual drive?
The action of Viagra is based only on a local increase of blood flow into the cavernous body of the penis, and it does not enhance sexual drive. It does not enhance libido and it is not an “exciting” remedy. Viagra just suppresses the action of the ferment that influence blood flow in the penis. For its action sexual drive is needed. In short, it favors a natural response of the body to sexual stimulation. Clinical investigations show no enhance of drive in a group of the patients having received Viagra treatment in comparison with the control group of the patients of the same age having received placebo without Viagra.
Do the wives share the hope of their husbands for return of youth?
We recommend doctors to learn upon the attitude of patients to the treatment, first of all directly with them, and then only in case of necessity with their sexual partners. But the results of clinical tests show that in common conditions Viagra enhance the quality of sexual life of the patient’s partners that take Viagra. Moreover, we know that in many countries, oddly enough, the wives are the first to see a doctor. In the USA 80 per cent of sufferers from erection disorders discuss this problem with their sexual partners before the treatment starts.
Does Viagra allow preserving potency even after the use of alcoholic beverages?
There are no data on interface with alcoholic beverages. But as alcoholic beverages can hardly be considered stimulators of sexual activity, it is not recommended to use them before taking Viagra. Alcohol may oppose to reach the goal, and, perhaps, proportionally with the quantity of drunken alcoholic beverages.
Alcohol may provoke a temporary incapacity to reach erection. To get the most benefit from the medicine it is not recommended to take alcoholic beverages in big quantities.
If Viagra is safe and efficient, why is it not possible to sell it without prescription?
Yes, clinical studies have proved the safety of Viagra. But it is known the cases of some medication interface, especially with nitrates, used in the treatment of heart diseases. That is why it is important that Viagra is prescribed by the doctor, thoroughly familiar with the patient record.
How Viagra interfaces with other medications?
In clinical tests there have been revealed either an insignificant interface with other medications or compete absence. But there is an exception from this rule – nitrates which are mainly used in treatment of heart diseases. That is why Viagra is counterindicated to the patients who receive nitrate treatment. The danger is a possible significant drop of blood pressure - hypotension.
Viagra should not be taken with nitroglycerine and nitroglycerine containing remedies of short and long action. It should not be taken with preparations-donators of nitrogen oxide, for instance, molsidomine (Corvaton, Sydnopharm) and nitroprusside of sodium. These preparations are used for the treatment of stenocardia.
It is not recommended to take Viagra with other remedies, intended for the treatment of erection disturbances.
If you are not sure whether you take such preparations or not, ask your doctor.
Which remote side effects does Viagra give?
In the last five years “Pfizer” has made clinical tests in which patients with a long term of Viagra intake – up to five years, participate. With the correct use of the medication there has been revealed no data, manifesting the danger of its use. There has been observed a light and transient side effect – neither severe, nor long.
Viagra may provoke some side reactions. Usually they are either insignificantly or moderately expressed and not of a long duration: sometimes there emerge headache, redness of the face, heartburn, stuffed nose.
With the emergence of undesirable reactions consult your doctor.
More than 90 clinical investigations in which more than 8000 patients took part confirm the efficiency and safety of the medication, provided it is used in compliance with the instruction.
Does Viagra influence the capability of childbirth?
Viagra itself does not influence the capability of childbirth. But in the cases when erection disruptions oppose the impregnation with couples in child-producing age, Viagra may bring profit.
To which extent does Viagra effective for women?
Viagra is developed for men. Experimental tests have been carried out and nowadays volunteers are invited to further investigations. Still there are no results of these investigations. Testing of women with sexual dysfunctions has proved to be more complicated than that of men. Still there is no an established methods for them.
Are there some age limits for the use of Viagra?
Viagra is not prescribed for persons fewer than 18 years old.
Which company produces Viagra?
Viagra is developed and produced by one of the biggest pharmaceutical company – “Phizer”. Discovery of the mechanism, which has shown the way the creation of Viagra by the scientists of the company was awarded Nobel premium in the field of medicine science. Nowadays other pharmaceutical companies of the world started to produce cheaper but equally efficient generic-forms of Viagra. Generic-forms having the composition absolutely identical to Viagra are produced under other trade brands or under the name of the active principle – Sildenaphyl and their prices are considerably cheaper, normally due to a significantly cheaper share of advertising in the cost of generic-form preparations.
- Most part of the medications which pharmaceutical companies supply to the world market are the so called generic-forms. They possess the same actions as the medications sold under a well-known trade brand, given by the inventor of the preparation, because their compositions are absolutely identical. But such preparations cost, as a rule, much cheaper, as the companies should not invest much to the promotion of them.
