Most Asked Questions: What are the Common Side Effects of Viagra

Learn Answers to the Most Asked Questions About What are the Common Side Effects of Viagra by Dr. Williams of ED Questions.

Hi I’m Dr. Daniel Williams of the Men’s Podcast for EDQuestions. Today I am here to discuss the side effects of Viagra. They are very similar to the other Phosphodiesterase-5 inhibitors, so lets discuss them in length. The most common ones are that are fairly mild, things like headache, feeling like you have an upset in your stomach, flushing in the face.

Extremely rare are some reports of temporary sudden loss of vision or hearing. That sounds like it could be pretty dangerous, most of the reports were in the very elderly say 65 and older. I am not trying to be insulting, but that was the report so much so the FDA has to put a black box label warning on these medications and the whole class of medications that was a possibility.

And if you were taking Nitrates or Alpha Blockers for chest pain because you have Angina or your Coronary Arteries aren’t very big and you have to take some medications to open them up, then you don’t want to take Viagra or the other Phosphodiesterase inhibitors such as Levitra or Cialis. The reason is because if you take them at them both at same time, they can work together to cause an uncontrolled dilation of your vessels, so it’s important to tell all of your doctors all of your medications.

Don’t leave anything out, I find it best if you will write down all your medication history and any diseases that you have into a short form or report, keep a copy with you or in your car and if you have to go to your doctor, take a copy with you. If your ever in the emergency department, make sure you tell them you are on Viagra or Nitrates or Alpha Blockers. You don’t want to run into this serious complication.

Other than that, the side effects are generally mild, it’s only something like 2% of people that take Viagra that actually quit it because of side effects, so 98% of people don’t experience these type of things at all, so I would take that as a comfort. Most advertisements for medications that come direct to consumer on television have long, very long crazy lists of side effects and some of them sound terrible. Buy they are forced by law, they are required to report every side effect that was ever recorded. And occasionally some of those side effects may not have anything to do with that drug, but they are required to report that.

So discuss that with your doctor, I am always going to say that, I am not practicing telemedicine here with you, you need a prescription for these medications, so I hope that this answers the questions about the side effects of Viagra.