Should Viagra prove safe and effective, its cost will be a major issue. Insurance companies already are complaining about supplying more than six of the popular blue pills each month. Ferris warns patients not to try this treatment at home until the studies can be completed. With Viagra, there is a particular concern for patients with heart disease, which is very common in diabetics. People need to be cautious that these studies have been done only in mice, not in humans.
History is littered with things that work great in mice and then never pan out.
Also, Viagra is expensive. To spend a lot of money on a drug that may not help is not wise. The new studies also will have to prove that accepted theories about why diabetics' stomachs fail to empty are wrong. It's not an open drain problem, but failure to push stuff out of the stomach. All rights reserved.