Viagra, the performance-enhancing drug, is being put to the test to determine whether it is giving athletes an unfair advantage — not for romance but out on the playing field. Read more »

Many medicines can be affected by what you eat and when you eat it. Find out what is recommended when you are taking Viagra and how food will affect its performance on you.

Viagra’s claim is that taking it with food does not make a difference as long as you do not eat a very big greasy meal and then take it. Food is said to have no positive or negative effect on the performance of Viagra. However, numerous people who have taken Viagra said that the effects of the drug were decreased when they ate before taking it compared to taking it on an empty stomach. Therefore, it is possible that having a full stomach can slow your body’s ability to absorb the drug. When this happens, Viagra may not work as quickly or as effectively. Read more »

The number of disreputable companies, many in foreign markets, that are selling counterfeit or unlicensed generic prescription drugs is on the increase, putting consumers in danger by selling them a drug that can hurt them, or worse.

Leading online pharmacy eDrugstore.net, which sells erectile dysfunction drug Levitra among other products, is cautioning Internet shoppers to make sure they purchase their drugs from established, genuinely safe companies that handle only FDA-approved drugs.

The numbers of arrests of people selling counterfeit versions of drugs is on the rise. Mohammed Azim Dad was sentenced to 250 hours of community service for selling counterfeit versions of Levitra, Cialis and Viagra, having been charged with, and convicted of, violating the Trade Marks Act of 1994. He had admitted to regularly purchasing these ED drugs from counterfeiters in China, and then reselling them on eBay. And a man in Ohio, Ryan Wheele, was charged with conspiracy and trafficking in counterfeit prescription drugs, namely Levitra, Cialis and Viagra.

So what’s the point? The point is that, when ordering anything that is going to find its way into your body, you should make sure that you are dealing with a legitimate, established, reputable source like eDrugstore online pharmacy. Whether the drug is for erectile dysfunction or something else, you should always make sure you trust the source of the drug, and not scrimp and try to save a couple bucks and end up buying something that could hurt you.

There is a good reason that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates the manufacture and sale of drugs. It’s to stop things like the above incident when counterfeiters in another country are creating something they may have a limited knowledge of in uncontrolled, non sterile conditions. And it’s not just drugs that are counterfeit, but drugs that claim to be “generic,” which often might as well be the same thing.

Genuine generic drugs are drugs that are manufactured using the same proprietary formulas and active ingredients as name brand drugs after a company’s patent, and exclusive right to manufacture that drug, has run out. The problem is, in the case of Levitra (and all ED) drugs, the patents have yet to run out, and nobody has the legal authority to manufacture generic versions. So when someone makes a batch of Levitra that allegedly contains the correct blend of Levitra’s active ingredient, Vardenafil HCl, there is actually no way of knowing whether or not the person who made the generic product had proper knowledge of what he was doing. You could be buying a placebo made out of pressed talcum powder for all you know.

Not only can it be dangerous to buy these types of illegal products, but there’s the patriotic factor to consider. Like anything, America’s economy goes up and down. But when we hear so much about how bad things are for the U.S. economically, why would we allow people from a foreign country (such as the counterfeiters from China mentioned above) to not only have a chance to poison us, but take our money while they do it? We need to be careful about the sources we deal with.

The bottom line is, don’t take the chance. Don’t buy counterfeit or generic drugs that are not being legally manufactured. There’s a reason that only FDA-approved drugs are sold through our reputable online pharmacy and other companies like it: we want you to be safe.

Levitra is still “under patent”. What that means is that Bayer/GlaxoSmithKline has the exclusive right to manufacture and market Levitra. In countries like India that do not recognize patent rights, some companies may produce “generic” versions of Levitra. However, this “generic” Levitra is not approved or tested by the FDA or European regulators so you cannot be sure of its purity or quality. Read more »

There is adequate evidence linking smoking to impotence or ED so sometimes something like smoking can really affect your sexual performance in the bedroom.

New research has been adding to the evidence that smoking may be a major cause of erectile dysfunction. Both smoking and erectile dysfunction have often been associated with build up in the heart walls. This can cause many problems in the body including erectile dysfunction. Actually men who smoked more than one pack of cigarettes per day were at a 60% higher risk or developing erectile dysfunction in comparison to men that never smoked. 15% of the past and present smokers have experienced erectile dysfunction.

Men who used to smoke or that currently smoke are about 30% more likely to suffer from impotence where as men that never smoked only had a 12% erection problems. There is indeed a link between impotence and smoking. Smoking can lead to a male eventually needing to be treated for erectile dysfunction and taking a drug such as Viagra.

Your doctor should be aware of anything that you are taking or doing while on Viagra, including smoking. Caffeine, alcohol, the nicotine from cigarettes, or street drugs can affect the function of many medications. Headaches and dizziness are a couple of the side effects that result from taking Viagra but often when men smoke too, the headaches and the dizziness can be much more painful and last longer.

Look at it this way for a minute, if smoking can cause or at least contribute to erectile dysfunction and you are taking a medication to treat the erectile dysfunction, then why smoke?

Another side effect from taking Viagra is stomach upset but it is also proven that the ill effects of smoking can also affect the digestive system. This very well could be the cause of the erectile dysfunction. The bad news is that quitting will not stop any erectile dysfunction because once the damage is done it is too late but it can contribute to some improvement and also help the Viagra to work better. Since everybody is different it may improve or even may not improve.

It is always a great and healthy idea to quit smoking but quitting is always a better idea if you are taking a medication and your smoking is a very real cause of why your medication is not working. Obviously if you put forth the efforts to treat your erectile dysfunction and find out that it is not working properly or maybe even at all because of your smoking then it is likely time that you examine what is going on and make an educated decision.

Women and men alike want to know whether or not women can take Viagra. Find out what the Food and Drug Administration advises for the safe and responsible consumption of this drug.

Along the way the topic of whether or not women can take Viagra and have it work effectively has came up. Women and men alike want to know if it will turn a woman into a sexual prowess. The answer is NO! The Food and Drug Administration has approved Viagra for men only. Viagra is to help erectile dysfunction and therefore can be of no benefit to women. Any tests or studies that have been performed on the subject of women and Viagra have been inconclusive.

Some health care providers have given women who suffer from physiological sexual dysfunctions Viagra. This simply means that the dysfunction was within their mind and the Viagra would fine tune their brain in a sense then overriding the dysfunction. However, because the FDA has not approved Viagra for women the potential side effects are not known. The side effects could be the same as they are for men which are headaches, flushing skin, muscle pain, and indigestion but they could also be worse.

The common theory behind a woman taking Viagra, otherwise called Sildenafil was that since it engorges the male penis that it should engorge the female clitoris and both are necessary to achieve an orgasm. So it was thought that maybe it would work for women who are not orgasmic. One very shallow study was confirmed as being conducted on this topic and a small percent of the women claimed to have better lubrication while another small percent claimed to have more clitoral sensitivity. It was concluded that there was no significant evidence to support that there were any improvements sexually but there were negative side effects that were experienced.

There are no medications in the works currently to do for women what Viagra does for men because the anatomy of women is much more complex than that of men. Viagra has changed the face of sex for men forever but women are going to have to wait because there is no sophisticated evidence that women can or should take Viagra for sexual heightening or for any reason at all because it provides no benefit but could or could not be damaging.

The whole problem is that not enough is known about women and Viagra for the Food and Drug Administration to endorse it at this time or any time in the remotely near future.