# Does Viagra work? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765 "2014-08-28T16:30:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/1 "2014-08-28T16:30:03Z")
Guys, I’ve been having troube “down there” and I wonder if Viagra has helped, maybe a friend? ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/2 "2014-08-28T16:39:51Z")
Yes it works. Ask your doctor for some samples. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/3 "2014-08-28T16:43:36Z")
Wow, wouldn’t it be amazing if it was the single most successful placebo of all time? ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/4 "2014-08-28T16:44:39Z")
Worked for a drug company and participated in ED research as a market researcher… Yes, it does. I would also suggest talking to your doctor about medical problems that might be getting in the way of function: nutrition, hormones, etc. It can be a wake-up call to look at your health overall. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/5 "2014-08-28T16:51:44Z")
Cialis offers an experience closer to how you functioned naturally. ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/6 "2014-08-28T16:53:54Z")
Also can cause severe headaches. Overall for me, it’s almost not worth it. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/7 "2014-08-28T17:08:37Z")
It’s not dificult to get a sample. My urologist (not ED related) practically forced me to take a sample pack. Haven’t tried it yet - I keep picturing myself at the ER in the middle of the night with a 4 hour erection. ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/8 "2014-08-28T17:35:01Z")
> [@Scumpup](#): > > Cialis offers an experience closer to how you functioned naturally. I too would recommend Cialis over Viagra. I once took the largest dosage of Viagra and thought I was about to have a fucking heart attack. Took all the fun out of it. Cialis has no side effects that I can notice, just a good woody any time you want it for the next couple of days after taking it. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2014, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/9 "2014-08-28T17:47:28Z")
> [@Doyle](#): > > I too would recommend Cialis over Viagra. I once took the largest dosage of Viagra and thought I was about to have a fucking heart attack. Took all the fun out of it. Cialis has no side effects that I can notice, just a good woody any time you want it for the next couple of days after taking it. Good stuff. Not so much a side effect as a benefit. If you have some amount of prostate enlargement, Cialis will ease urination a bit, much like Flowmax, while it lingers in your system. No retrograde ejaculation, though. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/10 "2014-08-29T02:41:41Z")
> [@Aeschines](#): > > Worked for a drug company and participated in ED research as a market researcher… > > Yes, it does. I would also suggest talking to your doctor about medical problems that might be getting in the way of function: nutrition, hormones, etc. > > It can be a wake-up call to look at your health overall. Yeah, it works, and this is good advice. ED may be an early indicator of heart disease. ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/11 "2014-08-29T02:45:39Z")
Try it and you’ll also understand why the Viagra commercials have that weird blue tint. ---
**Author:** ![Double\_Foolscap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@Double\_Foolscap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Double_Foolscap)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 9:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/12 "2014-08-29T09:02:31Z")
> [@Urbanredneck](#): > > Guys, I’ve been having troube “down there” and I wonder if Viagra has helped, maybe a friend? I guess a friend _could_ help… they’d have to be a good friend, though. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/13 "2014-08-29T13:57:55Z")
In particular, have your doctor check your eyes for “crowded optic disc”. A sudden drop in blood pressure, common with Viagra use, can result in immediate and permanent blindness (but usually in just one eye). > **[Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior_ischemic_optic_neuropathy)** > > Anterior ischemic optic neuropathy (AION) is a medical condition involving loss of vision caused by damage to the optic nerve as a result of insufficient blood supply (ischemia). This form of ischemic optic neuropathy is generally categorized as two types: arteritic AION (or AAION), in which the loss of vision is the result of an inflammatory disease of arteries in the head called temporal arteritis, and non-arteritic AION (abbreviated as NAION, NAAION, or sometimes simply as AION), which is d NA... ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/14 "2014-08-29T14:22:00Z")
> [@Arrendajo](#): > > Try it and you’ll also understand why the Viagra commercials have that weird blue tint. I don’t understand this - explain, pls? Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/15 "2014-08-29T14:34:40Z")
I have idly wondered from time to time about Viagra, Cialis, etc. Never seriously looked into it as it seems to me that an erection is not the cure for fatigue, lack of desire for sexual relations, or lack of intimacy period. I’ve read many times that the largest sex organ of the human body is the brain, and if the brain (of all parties involved) isn’t on board, then the sex will be unsatisfying, frustrating, or just plain not happening. Then what do you do with your 4-hour erection? ---
**Author:** ![tripthicket](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripthicket/32/297_2.png) [@tripthicket](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tripthicket)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/16 "2014-08-29T14:50:40Z")
> [@tripthicket](#): > > Then what do you do with your 4-hour erection? And yes, this is a rhetorical question. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/17 "2014-08-29T17:14:09Z")
My brother-in-law, who is a cop, says he hears a lot of tallk about it in the locker room. The consensus view is that yes, it gets you hard, but no, it doesn’t give you any incentive to use it, ---
**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/18 "2014-08-29T17:40:52Z")
> [@Shodan](#): > > I don’t understand this - explain, pls? > > Regards, > Shodan A common side effect of viagra is a bluish tint to one’s vision. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/19 "2014-08-29T17:44:40Z")
Viagra doesn’t help nervousness. So if that’s the problem you’ll need some kind of anxiety medication. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 29, 2014, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765/20 "2014-08-29T23:15:14Z")
It keeps me from rolling out of bed at night. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-viagra-work/696765.md?page=2)