Cialis Side Effect: Erection Drug Overdose Linked to Stroke
Can a man OD on an ED drug? Yes, according to doctors in Rome who treated a patient after he popped two of the pills at once. Their case report links the 70-year-old man's intracerebral hemorrhage, a kind of stroke, to his decision to take 40 milligrams of tadalafil (Cialis)—twice the dose he had been prescribed and four times the standard dose of that erectile dysfunction drug. He took the pills, they write in today's issue of Neurology, "1 hour before onset of his acute headache and...his symptoms worsened moderately during his sexual intercourse."
It's just a single case, of course, so it doesn't prove cause and effect. And the doctors who treated and released the man identified only three previous medical reports that have linked ED drugs to intracerebral hemorrhage, suggesting that it is an extremely rare side effect. Still, those reports have implicated both sildenafil citrate, which is the active ingredient in Viagra, and vardenafil, which is in Levitra. So, none of the three drugs in that widely used class of ED medications is off the hook.
Moral of the story: One dose, good. Two, too many.
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Cialis overdose...
The makers of Cialis are ,on one hand careful to caution men not to take more than the prescribed dosage within a 24-hour time period. But on the other hand imply that a man might have multiple sexual encounters within a certain period of time by coming up with a take-less-more-often regimen. They seem to ignore that frustrating event in males called the refractory period during which not only his penis but the entire erectile mechanism - neurological as well as physical - requires after ejaculation. A man of seventy these days may well be more like yesterdays fifty-year-old in many ways. Certainly attitude-wise. But his physical "equipment" still ages and weakens and his refractory period gets longer and longer and older males become unable to keep up (literally) with their still-active (overly active?) sexual needs and desires.
Apr 09, 2008 13:44:48 PM [permalink] [report comment]