April 4, 2005

PROVING THAT IF YOU DON'T STOP IT YOU'LL GO BLIND::

Small Number of Viagra Users Report Vision Loss (Miranda Hitti, 04 April 2005, Fox News)

Fourteen men reportedly have had vision loss while taking the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra, say ophthalmologists at the University of Minnesota. [...]

“The number of cases is extremely small,” says Howard Pomeranz, MD, PhD, who details seven of those cases in a new report. The condition is called nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (NAION).

“The likelihood of this happening in an individual is pretty small. It’s a question of weighing the relative risks,” Pomeranz tells WebMD.

Posted by Orrin Judd at April 4, 2005 8:43 AM
Comments

Odds are most men taking Viagra can't see beyond the end of it anyway...

Posted by: John at April 4, 2005 3:49 PM

Unfortunately creation, intelligent design, evolution, etc. has not resulted in enough blood in many men's circulatory system to operate more than one major organ at a time.

Posted by: Rick T. at April 4, 2005 3:53 PM

Why is this news? It enables them to do 'it' till they're blind.

Posted by: bart at April 4, 2005 4:08 PM

Alcohol consumption can also bring on brief periods of blindness. Ask any young man who wakes up in the morning after partying hardy and says: WTF?

Posted by: AllenS at April 4, 2005 4:54 PM

Levitra -- trust me on this one.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at April 4, 2005 5:47 PM

AllenS:

"Alcohol consumption can also bring on brief periods of blindness"

After the news we've been through in the last two weeks, I'm in favour of both.

Posted by: Peter B at April 4, 2005 9:14 PM
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