Does Viagra Work for Everyone?
No. Half the people who try it don't refill the
prescription. Some doctors say the 50% dropout rate is because
half the people are unsatisfied with the pill. Pfizer says that
Viagra studies show the drug doesn't work for only about a quarter
of people who try it, and that "interpersonal issues"
probably contribute to many of the other dropouts.
"Giving somebody a good erection doesn't
necessarily give somebody good sex," says Mike Sweeney, Pfizer's
senior medical director of urology.
In a review of 27 Viagra trials involving 6,659
men, researchers from the Veterans Administration found that in
all the studies, Viagra worked 66% of the time, compared with
25% for men taking a placebo.
But while Viagra didn't work every time, 83%
of the men were able to have sex at least once during the study
period, compared with 45% in the placebo group.
When marketing the pill to doctors, Pfizer advises
that patients try the pill as many as eight times before giving
up on it. The reason, says Pfizer, is not that it takes the pill
that long to work, but that a couple who have been plagued by
erectile dysfunction may need a few attempts to be comfortable
having sex again.
Men who are regular users of Viagra say the pill
has been a life-changing experience. Gary Haub, 52, of Irving,
Texas, says he began suffering from erectile dysfunction about
eight years ago. Viagra worked for him the first time he tried
it, but he says the real benefit was to restore the intimacy between
him and his wife.
"I didn't want to hold hands or put my arm
around her at the theater," he says. "When you can't
perform, you stop doing all those things. The really wonderful
part about this is that, yes, the sex is there, but the neat thing
is we're not afraid to touch or hold hands."
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