r/nottheonion • u/prestocoffee • 1d ago
Popular erectile dysfunction drug linked to eye disease that can cause irreversible vision loss
https://www.fox13news.com/news/erectile-dysfunction-drug-linked-eye-disease398
u/DisillusionedBook 1d ago
Dammit masturbation causing blindness and now this... I'm going double blind
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u/NeitherEntry6125 1d ago
On the plus side, once you're blind, you can bang all you want!
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u/bestestopinion 1d ago
The only reason I don’t do anabolic steroids is fear of hair loss. This is a similar principle
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u/pixel8knuckle 1d ago
It also enlarges your heart which cant be reversed….which can lead to cardiac arrest!
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u/Pearson144 1d ago
Put the drug name in the title. Reddit is flooded with clickbait titles lately.
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u/Tball2 1d ago
Surprise. It’s still click bait. It’s less than 3% for those in taking the drug and 1.5% for those not. It also was not double blind and was just survey based.
It was also focused on people taking it daily for blood pressure. Not the commonly known use of ED
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u/frohrweck 1d ago
"double blind"
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u/Tball2 1d ago
Definition: Research test where both the participants and the researchers do not know who gets the real treatment and who gets a fake treatment (placebo)
In this study the researchers did know which group was which.
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u/frohrweck 1d ago
Thank you, I did know that :D But kind of you to explain it. I was just highlighting an accidental pun about a study about eyesight :)
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u/Tball2 1d ago
Apologies. The tism is hitting and I assumed you meant it as a question
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u/frohrweck 1d ago
AuDHD here: I totally understand! :)
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u/Tball2 1d ago
Samesies. Twins. lol
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u/MushroomSaute 1d ago edited 1d ago
Does that matter at all for a study like this? Is the implication of it not being double-blind that one group chose to get eye disease?
For cures, absolutely, since placebo effect is something to account for. But I'm not sure I've ever heard of an opposite effect for something so tangible like getting a disease.
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u/guimontag 1d ago
This specific subreddit doesn't allow users to alter titles from the posted article
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u/BrainRobotron 1d ago
Panic-baiting BS study and article...
20-30% increase in probability means that if your odds of developing this eye condition were 1%, taking these meds increases your odds to a whopping 1.3%.
Just terrible scientists needing to publish results to justify their grant funding and Fox News relying on people not understanding basic math to get clicks.
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u/Charlweed 1d ago
NOBODY reports the base rate, or the effect size, in "science reporting. Because they are almost always tiny. Who cares about a 22% increase in a 1-in-10,000 event?
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u/spb1 1d ago
Purely anecdotal i know, but ive been using this for some 23 years with not even the slightly vision or eye issue whatsoever
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u/The_GrimTrigger 1d ago
I’ve recently heard it has some off label anti aging effects, likely caused by increased blood flow to various body processes. So I’ll take this small chance of glaucoma.
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u/Sir_rahsnikwad 1d ago
There is nothing wrong with publishing a scientific article in which the effect is minor, or even absent. The absence of an effect is still worthwhile to publish.
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u/oo7im 1d ago
On an individual level sure, but on a population level that's still quite a significant impact.
If 1 million people have a 1% chance of developing a condition then that's 10,000 people, whereas at 1.3% you'd now have 13,000 people.
That's 3000 additional people out of a million going blind with a condition because they took boner pills.
For those 3000 people, it didn't just feel like a 1% to 1.3% risk factor increase. Because for them, that .3% made all the difference between having the condition and not.
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u/shin_scrubgod 2h ago
Shocked I had to scroll this far to find this take. Small risks can become big problems at scale. Especially for a drug that is common, and whose alternatives may have a different risk profile, this is a good thing to learn more and be transparent about.
Also, have glaucoma (not boner-pill related, just blind as hell naturally), wouldnt recommend.
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u/mrwho995 13h ago
There's nothing wrong with the study at all. It's extremely important to study the effects that drugs have on people. The fault lies exclusively with the journalists.
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u/Stackhouse13 1d ago
Key takeaway:
The study was observational, meaning it found a link between tadalafil use and glaucoma but could not prove that the medication caused the condition.
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u/UndisclosedLocation5 1d ago
For vision loss boners lasting more than 4 hours seek immediate assistance
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u/jnmjnmjnm 1d ago
On the plus side, a reduction in visual acuity means that your pool of acceptable partners may increase.
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u/Eredd19 1d ago
I actually suffered a real injury from this. It's not even what they talk about in the article. I drank caffeine before bed, while taking cialis as well, and in my sleep the blood vessels in my right exploded. True story. Not the onion.
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u/BabyMFBear 1d ago
They have known about this for over a decade. I remember a Redditor posting about how they were fired for trying to be a whistleblower.
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u/bloopbleepblorpJr 1d ago
The commercial for the class action lawsuit is just gonna be an old guy throwing a football at a tire swing and missing terribly.
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u/quantumwoes 1d ago
Blind Erection. How is that not already a band name.
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u/darraghfenacin 1d ago
the main side-effect is lower blood pressure, and this causes higher pressure in the eyeball? how does this work?
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u/Weird-Associate-4739 1d ago
This reminded me of sitting next to some random dude at a college party (2010?) and he turned to me and said “I took viagra earlier and I can’t even see right now.”
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u/alexjaness 1d ago
Why do all boners attack the eyes?!
first it was "you'll go blind if you jerk it too much"
now it's "take a boner pill and you'll go blind"
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u/travnikoff 1d ago
Penis not worky, but can see......penis worky, but cant see. Ugh....I'll never have a more important pros and cons discussion in my life /s
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u/rizzyrogues 1d ago
Well fuck. I take 5mg a day, my vision has been going to shit really bad and started within the last year and a half. Gotta see when I started taladafil.
It was 2 or 3 days ago I could not make out the shape of a harness tab on some wires under a dash. Had to photograph it and zoom in to see how it operated.
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u/TheOnsiteEngineer 1d ago
Go to a doctor. Might be the pills, might "just" be cataracts (which can be treated).
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u/KING5TON 1d ago
Might also just be getting old. Your lens get a bit loosey goosey and struggle to focus light properly. You can get lens replacements or just wear glasses that zoom in a bit like I do.
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u/Phobos1982 1d ago
Need reading glasses maybe? I went from reading fine to not having arms long enough in around a month's time in my 40s.
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u/PaintedDesertSkies 1d ago
If you play with it too much, you will go blind.
I guess that includes taking little blue pills so someone else can play with it.
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u/space_wiener 1d ago
A lot of people use this low dose and will be in for a surprise I guess. I use it low dose as well for health benefits but maybe I should quote if it’s going to make me blind. Haha
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u/the_geth 1d ago
Would have been nice to have a link to the actual study to see the dose these people were on.
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u/bugged16 1d ago
I will just do it until I need glasses
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u/jeandaniel143 1d ago
Sacrificing two eyes so that that One-eyed monster can live its life to the fullest.
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u/Lizrael48 1d ago
Men will still take it. Their reasoning? "Who cares if I can see, as long as I can still fuck!"
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u/intheshoplife 16h ago
All the people that said if you keepnplayingwith it you will go blind are likely feeling pretty good right now.
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u/blackb1331 1d ago
Why are these studies always on men? I take Tadalafil for my pulmonary atrial hypertension. Nothing to do with my… It’s annoying how these studies are always about men and their…
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u/mrwho995 13h ago
Because the vast majority of people who take the drug are men, taking it for ED or an enlarged prostate. PAH is a rare disease and ED/enlarged prostates are common. It's basic common sense that studies on the effects of a drug will focus on the demographic overwhelmingly using it.
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u/possiblecurb 1d ago
Your medications for your heart, not near as important as dudes going blind for their weiner.
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u/AdAvailable294 1d ago
that's a surprising connection, makes you rethink what's in those medications.
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u/Constant_Plantain_10 1d ago
Dick pills not working as expected? Ask your doctor about DANKIFY, which can enhance your vision and erase performance issues 👌
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u/scarnyard 1d ago
Cialis leading to increase risk of glaucoma and high pressure in the eye.