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5 reasons Viagra KEEPS letting you down, even when you do everything right

The pill works. That was never the problem.

The problem is everything you have to do around it. And the question you have started asking yourself: what happens when this stops working?

Five things nobody warns you about. Number four explains all the others.


A blue pill next to a wristwatch, waiting for it to kick in

1. You don't take a pill. You start a countdown.

Thirty to sixty minutes before anything happens. So you swallow it early, and now the evening has a clock on it.

You are watching her, and you are watching the time. Did it kick in yet. Is she still in the mood.

"I would take the pill and wait for the erection that never happened." Forum member, ED community

Sex stopped being something that happens. It became something you schedule.

That one you can plan around. The next one ruins the plan itself.

A dinner table with wine and a blue pill on the tablecloth

2. It only works in lab conditions. Saturday night is not a lab.

Empty stomach. A fatty meal blunts it. Alcohol works against it.

Now look at how the good nights actually start. Dinner. A couple of glasses of wine. The exact two things that got you both in the mood are the two things killing the pill in your stomach.

"Absolutely have nothing in your stomach for three hours, then take your viagra." Advice posted to another man on an ED forum

So you eat light, skip the second glass, and spend the night doing pharmacology instead of enjoying it.


A man sitting on the edge of the bed at night with a headache

3. The headache. The red face. The blocked nose. Every time.

Not rare reactions in the small print. These are the manufacturer's own trial numbers.

16%Headache
10%Facial flushing
7%Heartburn
4%Blocked nose
"they work great but kill me..red face blocked nose heart burn blood shot eyes ..even taking a tiny amount I still suffer" Posted to a men's health community

The obvious move is to lower the dose. You just get a weaker erection with the same headache.

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Most men take that as the price of admission. It is actually a symptom of what the pill is really doing.

A urologist explaining how the pill works

4. It doesn't target your erection. It floods your whole body.

The pill does not know where your erection is. It relaxes blood vessels everywhere.

That is why the side effects arrive as a set. Vessels open in your head, you get the headache. In your face, you flush. In your sinuses, your nose blocks. In your stomach, the heartburn. In your eyes, colours shift blue or pink.

Those are not malfunctions. That is the drug working on the other 99% of you.

It is also why the label is strict about the heart. It is contraindicated with any nitrate, and should "not be generally used in men for whom sexual activity is inadvisable."

Which leads to the thing men worry about most, and almost never say out loud.

An almost empty blister pack with one pill left

5. Then one day it stops working.

This is the one nobody puts in the ads.

"I took Viagra for about 2 1/2 years then it quit working." Forum member, ED community
"After 9 years it stopped working." Forum member, ED community

So you go from 50mg to 100mg. Then you stack it with Cialis. And underneath sits the question men actually type out at 1am: have I done something permanent to myself.

Worth knowing: up to 40% of men never get a satisfactory result from these pills in the first place.

So if not the pill, then what?

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