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I thought this was a bit amusing. Remember those alarming grandmother-like anecdotes about masturbation causing boys to go blind?

Ha-ha...Well, it seems the FDA has become the grandma for Viagra users: it could make you go deaf!

The FDA has warned, like the Surgeon General used to for tobacco users:

[Viagra and other impotence drugs are about to bear new warnings that users may experience sudden hearing loss.

It’s not clear that the drugs truly trigger hearing loss, but the Food and Drug Administration decided Thursday to add a warning about the possible risk after counting 29 reports of the problem since 1996 among users of this family of medicines.

The impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra will bear the warnings. So will Revatio, a drug for pulmonary hypertension, which contains the same ingredient as Viagra....]



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  • Eilan said on Oct 21, 2007....
    So men who use Viagra to masturbate could go deaf and blind?  Sheesh!
  • Bronx said on Oct 22, 2007....
    ha-ha...yeah...occupational hazards....
  • silverwhisper said on Oct 22, 2007....
    holy crap, i never knew this was a possible risk! i'm trying to understand why that is, as i didn't think hearing and the circulatory system had any real interaction!

    ed
  • Bronx said on Oct 23, 2007....
    sw: hi. I'm inclined to think that the rise in blood flow through the user's system blocks out all thought of listening to anything else afterwards. Ha-ha.

    Seriously, though, the increased blood flow probably has a special negative effect on the tiny blood vessels in the eardrums of some people.
  • silverwhisper said on Oct 23, 2007....
    oo, good thought, bronx. it was confusing the heck out of me!

    ed
  • Bronx said on Oct 24, 2007....
    sw: ha-ha... the pleasure was mine.

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