Feds Eye Viagra-Blindness Reports (Users going Blind?)

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May 27, 2005 9:40 am US/Central
WASHINGTON (CBS) Federal health investigators are looking into reports that some men who used Viagra may have suffered a new and very serious side effect – blindness.

Twenty-three million men worldwide have used Viagra. A very small number of them are going blind after taking normal doses. And CBS News has learned from the FDA that it is urgently meeting about it with experts and Pfizer.

Jimmy Grant started using Viagra in 1998, when he was 57. At first, he felt pressure in his temples and saw color changes in his vision.

“I noticed the symptoms probably within 45 minutes to an hour,” he told CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson.

Soon, he went blind in his right eye. Doctors didn’t make a connection to Viagra.

“After your loss of vision, did you continue taking doses?” Attkisson asked.

“On occasions, I did,” he said. “And then in March 2000 after taking Viagra I experienced loss of sight – partial loss of sight in my left eye.”

With both eyes damaged, a friend found an article on the Internet about Viagra and blindness, and Grant put two-and-two together. …
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…don’t you see the attorneys circling now… imagine the visual exibits in court… your honor, before viagra, now after viagra… but that’s ok, they don’t turn the lights on anyway…

Peace:thumbsup:

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So people are being poisoned by fancy new drugs?

So what else is new?

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“Don’t do that or you’ll go blind!”

Sorry, couldn’t be helped.
 
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May 27, 2005 9:40 am US/Central
WASHINGTON (CBS) Federal health investigators are looking into reports that some men who used Viagra may have suffered a new and very serious side effect – blindness.

Twenty-three million men worldwide have used Viagra. A very small number of them are going blind after taking normal doses. And CBS News has learned from the FDA that it is urgently meeting about it with experts and Pfizer.
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St Thomas Aquinas would understand perfectly. He formulated the dictum that lust makes you blind.

I would be surprised if the FDA did anything more than make Pfizer put a warning on Viagra containers. After all, if they don’t force the manufacturer of human pesticide (aka RU-486) to take that substance off the market after a woman died using it, they won’t do anything about something that merely blinds you. They won’t do it because a sexualized population is a population that is easy to control. A population preoccupied with sexual performance is a population that won’t ask troublesome questions about what its government is doing, say about taxes or about Iraq.

Viagra serves the purpose enabling the government to more easily control us. It’s not going anywhere.

Anyone interested in further exploring this theme of sexual liberation as a form of political control should go to www.culturewars.com .
 
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“Don’t do that or you’ll go blind!”

Sorry, couldn’t be helped.
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That was the first thing I thought of when I heard this story!!!
 
marcadam said:
“Don’t do that or you’ll go blind!”

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BAHAHAHAHA! Best line of the day…

More seriously, it does make sense that a drug that expands blood flow to certain areas may run amok and increase bloodflow in areas that were not intended. Yikes! I understand some of the other similar meds are likely to have the same problem.

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BAHAHAHAHA! Best line of the day…

More seriously, it does make sense that a drug that expands blood flow to certain areas may run amok and increase bloodflow in areas that were not intended. Yikes! I understand some of the other similar meds are likely to have the same problem.

Lisa N
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Well maybe they will get medicaid to stop providing sex offenders with it:mad:
 
From what I gathered, this affects primarily diabetics taking Viagra. This is not surprising. After all, if Viagra increases blood flow, any condition involving weaknesses of the blood vessels is going to be made worse.
 
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