How much can one pay for a satisfactory sex life? Heart attack, vision loss and now hearing loss too.
Yes that is what the Viagra class of drugs can do to you, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is waning.Since 1996, the FDA has received 29 reports of people on the prescriptions suffering sudden hearing loss.
Warnings will now be added to Viagra, Cialis, Levitra and Revatio, which is a drug for pulmonary hypertension, which contains the same ingredient as Viagra.
However, not all experts are convinced. Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Dr. Natan Bar-Chama, for instance, says the risk is very small and there’s no direct link between these drugs and hearing loss.
'Over time we will find out if this is a coincidence or if there are some science behind this,' explains Dr. Bar-Chama.
Only men on the medicine should be aware of symptoms.
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But there is no need to panic.In most cases, the hearing loss is involved in one ear. In just a third of the cases, it was just temporary.
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All of the drugs belong to same class called PDE-5 inhibitors. They work by blocking, or inhibiting, the action of phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE-5), an enzyme naturally present in the corpus cavernosum, the spongy erectile tissue of the penis.
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