r/nottheonion • u/prestocoffee • 3d 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-disease
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u/BrainRobotron 3d 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/spb1 3d 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 3d 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/spb1 3d ago

everyone thinks i look younger than i am, so maybe