So, it actually DOES make you do blind!
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All ED meds do this. Not new information.
I seem to recall hearing that viagra will turn your vision blue. And then they released that series of ads for it with a blue tint, which struck me as an interesting choice.
Don't worry, in absolute numbers the risk is 3,93 % compared to 3,16 % for non-users (5year). Just looking at the raw percent in the article make it seem like it gives you a 33% risk - hate articles like that.
Same deal with cancer increases from different activities.
"Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!" When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Smoking is still a substantial increase though. Plus the fact that a minority of smokers get lung cancer, but 90% of people with lung cancer were smokers.
"Eating salami increases your cancer risk by 25%!" When it went from 0.3% to 0.375% over your lifetime or something.
Eating 50g of cured meats every day raises the risk from about 5% to about 6% chance of getting certain gastrointestinal/colorectal cancers, compared to someone who never eats cured meats. A couple different ways to state this:
- 1% of cured meat eaters will develop cancer that they wouldn't have otherwise developed, by eating cured meat.
- There is a 20% increase in risk of cancer from eating cured meat.
- Cured meat eaters who have cancer have approximately a 16% chance of having gotten the cancer from the meat they eat.
But it's not negligible. And the causal connection is pretty strongly proven.
I know its just I have a 50/50 shot of getting cancer if I live like a monk and avoid carcinogenic foods, or i can eat what I enjoy and makes my life fulfilling knowing my risk is probably like 10% higher overall.
I think the fact that I don't drink or smoke at all makes up for it. I can enjoy cured and smoked meats to my hearts content.
Never eat sausage or pepperoni, or have a slight increase in cancer risk? I'll take the meats.
I'm sure it's cumulative, so of course I'll not eat like a stick of pepperoni every day, but once in a while won't appreciably increase my risk. (I had one sausage and one pepperoni piece of pizza today for lunch, in fact.)
Yeah I bet its both dose and consistency that do it. I can't live without cured meat, cheese, and campfire bread while backpacking or camping...
Lies, damned lies and statistics.
Fox!
tadalafil
I remember Fight Club writer Chuck Palahniuk getting one of the characters in his 2008 novel Snuff go blind while waiting for his turn on the set of a gang bang production from eating viagra like smarties. Fun book, still waiting for the movie 🍿
A boner and the women get hotter?
Sounds like a win win.
~~If this this drug had a female equivalent it wouldn’t be sold OTC because it’s dangerous to take it when you have high blood pressure. This study just piles up more evidence for it. I guess this is a rare instance where sexism inherent to medicine and pharmacology bites men in the butt.~~
Guess what, ED drugs (really BP drugs because they were developed as vasidilators for blood pressure management) aren't legally available without a prescription.
I stand corrected, tadalafil is not OTC in many countries, only sildenafil is. Tadalafil is OTC where I live since 2022 and I assumed it’s the same elsewhere.
You can just buy them online. Legality is irrelevant to the topic.
aren’t legally available without a prescription.
sure, like oxycontin.
No ED medication is over the counter in Canada.
