Physicians might be prescribing Impotence pills vs other treatments

Several news sources have reported that Doctors and Internists might be prescribing erectile dysfunction medications such as Cialis, Viagra and Levitra to men who ask for it more often. No, not because of all the commercials everyone has seen about them, but researchers at the American College of Physicians (group of physician who research internal medicine) say there is allot of evidence backing up their effectiveness. Compared to other erectile dysfunction options such as testosterone treatments, doctors recommend men who are suffering from erectile dysfunction are more likely to have success with these medicines.

One of the main reasons for these findings is that erectile dysfunctions medications such as Viagra work well compared to hormone or testosterone treatment. The downfall is they do carry some common side effects such as facial flushing, headaches and even nausea. Which is why physicians are calling for more to be done and future trials are required to see which ones are more likely to cause more serious side effects such vision loss, diarrhea or vomiting.

Researchers based their findings on comparing oral or gel testosterone treatment with placebos. They found that the testosterone treatments were only a little more effective (the placebos only helped a little over 30% of men). However, their discovery with erectile dysfunction PDE-5 medications was much more effective. The researched demonstrated that the PDE-5 inhibitors improved the quality of men’s erection in up to 80% of cases. Although it was not clear which ED meds is best to prescribe, researches recommended that doctors should prescribe based on a mans preference, the cost of the ED medication and side effect profile.

The American College of Physicians also mentions that this research was funded by their own budget and was not influenced by drug makers.