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Fake ED Drugs are Not worth It

Without stringent copyright laws, China copies most everything and markets it. Never as good as the original, but it always looks close and is generally a whole lot cheaper.

This is okay when you are talking about HiPhones, tools, and knock off Rolexes. But when it comes to medicines, your very health can be at risk.

Take 33 year old Zhang Yan (for personal reason’s he did not use his real name) in Changchun. He was never concerned about his sexual performance until he was laughed at because his sexual encounters only lasted 5 to 10 minutes he told the New Culture Daily Newspaper.

A friend recommended he try Viagra, so to protect his own self esteem, he decided to seek out Viagra. Viagra is a prescription only drug and he thought it easier and more economical to try counterfeit ones instead, and they turned out to be promising. He tried others on the market too over a three month period.

Promising was out the window when without warning he was unable to get an erection of any kind.

Urinary Tract Infection
“I was shocked and immediately went to the hospital,” Zhang reported, “and I later found out I had a urinary tract infection, but I almost completely lost my sexual ability because I carelessly took impotence drugs.” The doctor at the hospital said that the infection may have been caused by the counterfeit drugs.

The people who produce this counterfeit drug are not bound by the same rules as true pharmaceutical companies and contaminates can find their way into these fake drugs.

The newspaper visited almost 40 sex shops in the Jilin Province where Changchun is located. Almost half of them sold counterfeit Viagra. Some owners actually claimed they had medicines to keep you erect for 96 hours.

The packages containing these fakes were nearly identical to the packaging Pfizer uses for the real Viagra, the packages were even in English lending to authenticity.

In China, any sex shop selling Viagra can be guaranteed to be fake. Only hospitals and registered medicine shops can sell the originals with a prescription.

The cost of a fake can be hard to pass up, an actual Viagra pill will cost in USD $18. The fake stuff can be purchased for $1.40, and one sex shop owner claimed he had the real stuff for $7.30.

Over 50,000 of these counterfeit Viagra’s are sold each year in the Jilin province, which can be a heavy price to pay once you here of some of the side affects of these fakes.

A man surnamed Wang had taken fake Viagra for over six years and ended up with complete liver and kidney failure.

Yan Daqing, and urologist at the Changchun Liulong Man’s Hospital was quoted, after seeing many cases of men with terrible side affects due to these fake medicines, as saying “A fake Viagra may lead to erectile dysfunction, heart disease, and high blood pressure”. After hearing about the potency of the sex shops medicine he added “The only thing that could happen after getting an erection for 96 hours is death.”