And some don't even have a sex problem but figure there is always room for improvement. It's a serious medicine for a serious medical condition. But doctors, who are able to prescribe it for many purposes now that it is approved for one, ask who gets to decide what are proper and improper uses of the drug and how that decision should be made. If a person feels he is failing or has failed, I think he is a potential candidate. Lamm , however, is the doctor who turned down the art dealer who wanted repeat sex.
Some doctors say more stringent limits have to be set on prescribing it.
He said half of the hundreds of calls his office has received in the past few weeks have been from men seeking to perform better, rather than those with impotence. The drug appears to be effective in 7 out of 10 men who have experienced erectile dysfunction, including those with diabetes and other physical causes as well as psychological causes. The most common side effects to date are headache, facial flushing and indigestion. It should not be taken by heart patients who use nitroglycerine or other nitrates to relieve angina symptoms. Pfizer said that in four years, more than 4,000 men with long-term impotence problems, ages 19 to 87 with an average age of 55, took part in trials, using an average of two pills a week.