Anne Truong MDMen's Sexual Health Doctor

The Importance of Taking Prescription Medication Safely #shorts #medication #youtubeshorts #trending

7 Oct 2023 · 1 min

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Short YouTube video by Anne Truong MD warning about the dangers of taking prescription medications (specifically testosterone and erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra/Cialis) without physician supervision. The speaker explains that Viagra relaxes penile smooth muscle but also lowers blood pressure and can dangerously interact with antihypertensives or hidden ingredients in supplements, potentially causing fainting, heart attack, or stroke; common side effects (stomach upset, stuffy nose, headache, dizziness, visual problems) are listed.

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The reason why testosterone and Viagra or Cialis is a prescription is because they have very severe interaction in your body if not monitored by a physician. For instance, if you take Viagra and then you have high blood pressure that combined with an antihypertensive or medicine that lower your blood pressure, you can have such low blood pressure that you can pass out, or that you can have a heart attack or even had a stroke because you're taking the supplement and you don't know that it has Viagra in there. And Viagra, how it works is that it relaxes the penis muscle, but by doing that, it also lowered your blood pressure as well. And it also has other side effects such as stomach upset, stuffy nose, headache, dizziness, and visual problem. So you may be taking a prescription medicine when you're just taking over the counter medication.