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> The OxHARP trial was a meticulously designed double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 75 participants who had experienced a minor stroke and showed si
by sva_ 2y ago
> The OxHARP trial was a meticulously designed double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 75 participants who had experienced a minor stroke and showed signs of mild to moderate small vessel disease. Each participant received sildenafil, a placebo, and cilostazol (a similar drug) over three-week periods in a randomised order.
I feel like dudes will know if they got Viagra or not? It doesn't seem like cilostazol has the same kind of effects on them, or does it? So is it really a placebo?
- saulpw 2y agoViagra doesn't "make" you hard, you still need sexual stimulus. I've taken it and then the sexual opportunity fell through, so I went back to coding or whatever, and I didn't notice anything different.
- arresin 2y agoDang, that is a sad tale.
- wumbo 2y agoSevere warning. I have no sexual problems and took a viagra once. It definitely was automatic and persistent. It was terrible. It wouldn’t even go away when I was done with it.
- paiute 2y agoPseudoephedrine
- ThrowawayTestr 2y agoYou shouldn't mix uppers and downers.
- paiute 2y agoIt’s one of the things they might give in a hospital for it.
- rblatz 2y agoThe espresso martini would like to have a chat with you.
- portaouflop 2y agoSmall doses are fine
- wumbo 2y agoWhy the downvotes? People are giving wrong and dangerous advice. Yeah, you can say “well just don’t take it if it’s not prescribed.” But don’t bury the truth. If you don’t have ED and you take it, the GP is wrong.
- dbdoug 2y agoI can (at the ripe old age of 78) confirm this completely. Without stimulation, nothing except facial flushing. With stimulation, and only with stimulation, a functioning erection.
- adastra22 2y ago> nothing except facial flushing What does this mean?
- rzzzt 2y agoPerson takes pill, face gets a bit more rosy than usual. I guess it has an effect on small blood vessels everywhere.
- jcims 2y ago>Without stimulation, nothing except facial flushing. and for me, a stuffy nose and splitting headache.
- loeg 2y ago> Viagra doesn't "make" you hard It definitely does. > you still need sexual stimulus. Not really, or to a much lesser extent.
- mirekrusin 2y agoMaybe that's just java language, have you tried with other ones?
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- chkaloon 2y agoBut it does frequently cause nasal congestion, unrelated to sexual simulation
- XajniN 2y agoIt’s not unrelated actually, there is some tissue inside the nose cavity that is similar to the erectile tissue of the penis. That’s why the nose gets “stuffy” from sildenafil, and that’s why you sometimes sneeze when aroused.
- gjs4786 2y agoWrong python. Hehehe
- rs_rs_rs_rs_rs 2y ago>Viagra doesn't "make" you hard, you still need sexual stimulus. That's Cialis, Viagra should make you hard even when you're in the confession booth talking to a priest.
- myrandomcomment 2y agoViagra = standing at attention pretty much no matter what is going on. Cialis = you have to have the mind/stimulus.
- noduerme 2y agowhich one makes the priest hard?
- fetzu 2y agoViagra was approved in the 90’s and Cialis in 2003, so I’m guessing none of them..
- zolbrek 2y agoI have experience with both, this is not the case.
- spencerchubb 2y agoMaybe, but maybe not. If I told you I'm either giving you actual viagra or a placebo, you might get more aroused even if given placebo. Because psychologically you'll be thinking "There's at least a chance I took viagra right now"
- ekianjo 2y agothe placebo effect does not work like that. You dont get physiological benefits just by thinking you have them.
- Dylan16807 2y agoBeing more aroused is not a physiological benefit. To have no placebo effect, the random patients in the brain blood flow trial would need to all be unable to get erections, or something.
- hattmall 2y agoIsn't that the exact definition of the placebo effect?
- ekianjo 2y agoyou dont get antibodies against viruses just by thinking you have them.
- tux3 2y agoEven if this is obviously true, that does nothing to support the original statement. That's a whole different claim that you had to fall back to. Which is a motte-and-bailey type of argument.
- ekianjo 2y agoif the placebo effect only works for a minority of ailments then its probably something else like you know, regression to the mean
- treprinum 2y agoViagra doesn't work for everyone; it's not like you take it an get automatically erect, even with sexual stimulus. There are many reasons for ED, some of them in the brain, some of them in hormones. Viagra only helps with cardiovascular ones.
- grugagag 2y agoI had a highly intelligent and good looking roommate with ED and it was devastating that at such a young age he couldnt’t maintian an erection even with viagra, cialis. I urged him to see a doctor and it turns out the ‘baloon’ down there that gets filled with blood also has a valve to keep the blood in. He had a misfunctioning valve and blood was leaking out and erection was soft. Sad story, as it seems to have had psychological effects on this person. Not sure it was much they could do at the time other than a manual pump fix. He did have a girlfriend though and they found other ways around it, though I heard she was cheating on him in search for a normal experience.