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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to add this serious side effect on the warning labels. Long-term use of Viagra can also increase the risks for double vision and temporary vision loss. Dailymed, an online site providing information on FDA approved drugs by the National Library of Medicine, cited retinal haemorrhaging and vascular diseases as potentially serious side effects of Viagra.Cerebrovascular and CardiovascularShort-term serious side effects of Viagra are strokes and heart attacks. Vascular side effects are seen in long-term users of Viagra, such as cerebrovascular haemorrhage and Transient Ischemic Attack (TIA). Cardiomyopathy (enlarged heart), arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat), and heart palpitations have been reported. An article published in The Journal of Medical Case Reports, by researcher Jeppe G Rasmussen, concluded that heart arrhythmia like ventricular tachycardia can potentially be an adverse effect of the drug.GastrointestinalViagra affects the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and the genito-urinary tract (GU). Long-term use can increase the frequencies of dyspepsia and intestinal problems, such as diarrhoea and gastritis. Additional side effects can include issues relating to urinary tract functions, for example, incontinence, increase the risk for urinary tract infections, and cystitis. Some reports of anorgasmia or the inability to ejaculate, including abnormal ejaculation, have been documented. Drugs.com cited some relationship between Viagra use and anorgasmia in less than 2% of patients on Viagra clinical trials.PsychologicalLong-term Viagra use can increase the potential to develop a psychological dependency. An article published on Biopsychiatry.com, dated April 2004, in the Anchorage Daily News, cited that men who do not have erectile dysfunction problems are taking the drug for recreational purposes and are at risk for developing a psychological dependency for the medication.Will I develop a tolerance to Viagra if I use it long term?People taking certain medications, such as painkillers, sleeping pills, and antibiotics, gradually develop a tolerance for these drugs and find that they need more of the drug to produce the same results. However, the same phenomenon has not been observed in men using Viagra according to their doctors’ instructions.A study of men taking Viagra to overcome symptoms of radiation-related erectile dysfunction caused by prostate cancer treatment found that men responded to the drug four years after beginning treatment as well as they had at the start, according to WebMD.com. Michael Zelefsky, M.D led the study, which followed 360 men with radiation-associated erectile dysfunction who had all responded to the drug when they first took it.Zelefsky and his colleagues tracked
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