so im either erect, or i cannot see that im not erect. sounds like a perfect solution.
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My dad kept telling me I would go blind
Can someone explain the regularity of doses required for damage? I take it every day for like 4 weeks per year.
It's basically 3% vs 4% risk anyway. Not the end of the world. Since it's one study there's probably not enough data for a case like yours, but in any case it's just a risk factor and not "it will definitely turn you blind".
ED meds have been found to affect vision in multiple studies since 2006. All of them.
I believe some things in life are important enough to risk. You see where I'm coming from?
I can't see anything
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.
“You do it too much, you’ll go blind” Unexpected prophecy
tadalafil (Cialis)
Oh cool.
Tadalafil is a drug I use for my lungs. Huzzah.
All ED drugs have a risk of vision loss.
Thank you lol.
A blurry first panel
Boner vision is a pretty sus superpower.
Like a monkey paw super power... X-Ray vision, but only if the person you're looking at has a boner.
Or the only thing you can see with XRay are boners.
Sweet diabetes messed up my eyes and my dick. Now the medicine for one makes the laser and injections for the other pointless.
Just leave me hard and blind in a ditch somewhere.
It's not to late to start taking control of your diabetes, getting blood sugar and insulin under control will improve erectile function!
It's under control but apparently getting it under control too quickly can cause rapid eye degeneration (my eyes were fine when I got diagnosed, and I responded well to treatment).
I. The UK diabetes and other lifelong conditions make you eligible for free meds, which helps a lot.
I'm glad to hear its under control. Are you monitoring your fasting insulin levels? Getting your insulin levels down is probably the single best thing you can do for cardiovascular health.
Hba1c blood test every once in a while, blood sugar tests if I feel weird or curious. My blood was syrup when I first went in, untreated for years except accidentally trying low carb diets
except accidentally trying low carb diets
Oh, thats quite a accident!
May I suggest getting fasting insulin checked as well? from my reading of the literature, it's the single biggest lever in getting t2d and cardiovascular issues under control or even reversed. the best way to achieve low insulin levels is the low carb diets you accidentally tried before.
That's NHS standard every now and then along with the hba1c as far as I can tell.
Wait a sec, I was told if I play with too much I will go blind, now this????
"Everything became hardly visible "