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Some Viagra Users Report Troubling Side Effects.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 9--The impotence drug Viagra, apparently on its way to becoming the best-selling drug in history after four weeks on the market, has hit a hurdle: Some Viagra users are complaining about troubling side effects, including abnormal vision, headaches, indigestion, and nasal congestion.
As these side effects emerge, health-care experts are voicing concern that many of the hundreds of thousands of men who've bought Viagra are taking it for the wrong reasons.
Seventy-four-year-old James of Tenafly, one of the estimated 30 million American men who suffer from impotence, quickly switched from penile injections to Viagra when it became available last month. He took 100 milligram doses, which worked fine until he arose in the middle of the night, walked into the bathroom, and turned on the light.
"Everything looked blue and white," said James, who, like all of the other Viagra users interviewed, refused to have his last name published. "It was like the color of fireworks on the…
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Source: HighBeam Research, Some Viagra Users Report Troubling Side Effects.
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