The Trade-off: Your Ability To Hear For A Night Of Ecstacy
The US Food and Drug administration (FDA) recently required manufacturers of all medications belonging to the class of phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors to revise their labels by adding a warning—these drugs may potentially cause sudden hearing loss. This decision comes after the FDA reviewed reports of 29 cases of sudden hearing loss after taking PDE5 inhibitors, some dating back from 1996. The FDA said they were prompted to search its Adverse Events Reporting System for cases of hearing loss with PDE5 inhibitors after reading an article about a man who experienced these symptoms after taking Viagra that was published in the April 2007 issue of a reputable medical journal. Among the medications affected by this warning are the popularly prescribed sexual impotence drugs VViagra (sildenafil), Cialis (tadalafil) and Levitra (vardenafil) as well as others with similar ingredients, including a drug for pulmonary hypertension.
Over the last few years, impotent men around the world have relied on some little blue pills to help them raise their staffs high and fight an enemy called sexual...