Viagra and hearing loss

**vindiesel** · #1 (**permalink**) 10-19-2007, 08:03 PM

FDA Warns Viagra Users May Suffer Hearing Loss

Users of impotence drugs, such as Viagra, may suffer sudden hearing loss, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

It's not clear that the drugs truly trigger hearing loss, but the Food and Drug Administration decided Thursday the drugs would bear a warning about the possible risk after counting 29 reports of the problem since 1996 among users of this family of medicines.

The impotence drugs Viagra, Cialis and Levitra will bear the warnings. So will Revatio, a drug for pulmonary hypertension, which contains the same ingredient as Viagra.

Viagra's label already mentioned hearing loss as a possibility, because a few cases were reported during initial testing of that drug. But given that hearing loss is a risk of advancing age and certain conditions, such as diabetes and heart disease, that can lead to impotence, it wasn't clear if the link was real.

That still isn't clear, said FDA ear nose and throat specialist Dr. Robert Boucher.

But in poring over FDA's database of possible drug reactions, what struck him was these 29 reports said the hearing loss occurred without hours to two days of taking one of the drugs.

"We don't know enough to say that it's ironclad caused by the drugs, but we see enough to say we can't ignore it either," he said.

The reports involve hearing loss in one ear, which in a third of cases was temporary.

FDA urged patients who experience any hearing problems — loss or ringing in the ears — to promptly call their doctors and stop taking the impotence drugs.

— Associated Press

**beck26** · #2 (**permalink**) 10-19-2007, 09:38 PM

very interesting, but i wouldn't put viagra in the steroid section lol

**SLICK** · #3 (**permalink**) 10-19-2007, 10:20 PM

WOW...so out of the ridiculous number of people that do these types of drugs......there has been 29 cases. And of those 29 cases the hearing loss is temp? So more or less 9 people were perfectly fine after awhile. which means 19-20 (HOWEVER THEY FIGURE ONE THIRD OF 29 LMFAO) actually had complete hearing loss in one ear?

Maybe these 20-30 people should turn down the Metallica while masterbating and they wouldnt have any hearing loss! Bwwwahhahaa

**Dr X** · #4 (**permalink**) 10-20-2007, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by SLICK

WOW...so out of the ridiculous number of people that do these types of drugs......there has been 29 cases. And of those 29 cases the hearing loss is temp? So more or less 9 people were perfectly fine after awhile. which means 19-20 (HOWEVER THEY FIGURE ONE THIRD OF 29 LMFAO) actually had complete hearing loss in one ear?

Maybe these 20-30 people should turn down the Metallica while masterbating and they wouldnt have any hearing loss! Bwwwahhahaa

I bet the ones suffering from hearing loss were in their 70's

**DirtyD** · #5 (**permalink**) 02-02-2008, 10:45 AM

Interesting to say the least... I am still considered young and I have used Viagra many of times and my hearing is insane... I have sonic hearing... Even while on it... Now a flush face and a stuffy nose is a different ball game...

**Amanda** · #6 (**permalink**) 02-02-2008, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by DirtyD

Interesting to say the least... I am still considered young and I have used Viagra many of times and my hearing is insane... I have sonic hearing... Even while on it... Now a flush face and a stuffy nose is a different ball game...

Maybe you need to take MORE Viagra to calm down that hearing!! Sounds like a win-win situation for me!!!