Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

PDE5 Inhibitors: Beware of the Hidden Dangers #viagra #sideeffects #blindness #viral #shorts #ED

5 Nov 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube health explainer by Anne Truong MD about PDE5 inhibitors (Viagra/sildenafil and Cialis/tadalafil). The speaker states these drugs relax the smooth muscle of the corpus cavernosum, lower blood pressure, and can cause hearing loss and visual loss — including swelling in the eye leading to irreversible blindness. The clip emphasizes blood-pressure lowering as a common effect and highlights potentially serious, irreversible ocular adverse events.

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Viagra. What it does is that it relaxes the smooth muscle of the corpus cavernosum, or the muscle of the penis, but it does lower blood pressure, and so is Cialis. So both of those medications lower blood pressure. If you take it together, then your blood pressure will be lower. And that one of the most common side effects of Viagra or cialis or PDE5 inhibitor, which is the class they are in, is lowering the blood pressure, but also hearing loss as well as visual loss. And the visual loss is because it has a receptor in there, and it does react in a sense of causing swelling in the eye, which eventually lead to blindness. And unfortunately, this is irreversible blindness in the eye.