MORE GOOD NEWS ABOUT VIAGRA AND VASOMAX
The man currently taking any number of medicines—either prescription or over-the-counter—that give him ED is now able to counteract the negative condition without compromising his health. Research bears this out. Dr. Harin Padma-Nathan, director of the Male Clinic in Santa Monica and an associate professor of urology at the University of Southern California, has had extensive clinical experience with both Vasomax and Viagra. His findings, which relate to men taking antihypertensive medication, are extremely positive. He says, “ED will be much less of an issue for men taking hypertensive drugs.”
One of the pivotal trials with Vasomax suggests it overrides the ED-inducing effects of antihypertensive medications. In the study, men were allowed to continue with their current prescription. When the testing was over, researchers analyzed the data to see if hypertensive medications, a single class of drugs which cause more ED than any other, were still inhibiting sexual function. The results were conclusive: Vasomax was also equally effective in restoring erectile function, whether a man was taking antihypertensive medication or none at all. Vasomax was also effective in men who had mild to moderate dysfunction, whether they were taking medications for other conditions or not.
Dr. David Ferguson, clinical director for the American trials with Vasomax, is even more optimistic about the ability of the drug to override ED-related side effects of medications. He states, “You can improve function while still getting all the benefits of the other medications you are currently taking. In my experience, Vasomax seems to be compatible with all other drugs.”
This has been borne out in cases with my own patients. Gary’s story is an excellent illustration of the restorative powers of the oral intervention in the face of a serious disease. When he first came to see me, the forty-one-year-old advertising executive had dangerously high blood pressure. My immediate concern was that, left unchecked, his hypertension could lead to a heart attack or stroke. Naturally unnerved by the news, Gary was shattered when I informed him that hypertensive medication very often causes ED. His response was a very common one: “Forget it! Why can’t you give me something that will let me live the way I want to? Do you really expect me to give up my sex life?”
I explained to Gary that he had a life-threatening condition but that we could try several different drugs to see which one least affected his sex life. Finally capitulating, he said he would try a prescription. However, when he came back several weeks later, his blood pressure readings were unchanged. Suspecting that he had cut—or even eliminated—his medication, I confronted Gary, asking him if that was the case.
“Okay, you caught me,” he confessed. “I did try the medication— but as soon as I did, I couldn’t get hard anymore. Look, it’s my life and I make the decisions about it, okay?”
I told Gary that in my view it wasn’t okay, and that compromising his health in such a dangerous fashion was something I could not condone. Having reached a stalemate, Gary left my office, telling me he wasn’t planning to start taking his medicine again.
But later, after I became involved in the Vasomax trials, one of the first men I thought of was Gary. When I called him, he admitted that he was worried about his health. He still had erections, but he’d experienced some problems over the past year, he said. And then there was the untreated hypertension. He said he felt that he was a time bomb that could explode at any moment.
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