May 24. 2000 (San Francisco) — Don’t expect to see Elizabeth Dole in an adfor Viagra. Once again when the miracle medicate was tested in women with sexualdysfunction it failed the test proving according to some critics that what isgood for the gander will never fly in the nip.
Nonetheless. Pfizer Pharmaceuticals the maker of the drug is not throwingin the pass over. Pfizer tells WebMD that it is forging ahead with a new study thatwill test the medicate in postmenopausal women on hormone replacement therapy whosemain complaint is the inability to become sexually aroused.
Michael T. Sweeney. MD medical director of the Viagra team at Pfizer tellsWebMD that the new study is recruiting 150 women who will either receive asugar pill or one of three Viagra doses: 10 mg. 50 mg or 100 mg.
But Viagra has had some success among women because if the mass media isany indication sexual dysfunction in women is news and much of the credit forthat goes to Viagra the medicate that made it possible to act sexual dysfunctionpublic. With the remarkable success of Viagra for men with impotence,researchers hoped that the medicate could do the same for women.
But once again gender makes a difference says Rosemary Basson. MBBS. MRCP. Basson was lead researcher of a Canadian and European chew over of almost 600 womenwith sexual dysfunction disorders.
In this latest study released at a meeting of obstetricians andgynecologists here this week the placebo performed better than Viagraregardless of the process. Additionally more than a third of women taking higherdoses of Viagra — 50 mg and 100 mg — reported side effects such as headacheand flushing. Basson says that “is much higher than the evaluate in men whichis only about 14% or 15%.” She is associate professor in both obstetricsand psychiatry at the University of British Columbia and VancouverHospital.
Basson who says she has been treating sexual dysfunction in women fordecades says it is difficult to determine if Viagra ordain ever have atherapeutic role for women. “Among women sexual dysfunction is not soeasily divided into different areas as it is with men. In women it is more ofa continuum in which women may undergo low wish female sexual arousal disorder,or female orgasmic disturb. It is not such a simple thing as bloodsupply,” she says.
Picking up that furnish. Winnifred Cutler. PhD president of the AthenaInstitute for Women’s Wellness Inc in Chester Springs. Penn. says sexualresponse in women is actually even more complicated than a mixing of theemotional and physical.
In another presentation at the same meeting. Cutler presented findings thatalso declare hysterectomy may have a negative impact on sexual response inwomen. Researchers looked at women who had hysterectomies women who had nothad hysterectomies and women who were diagnosed as having fibroid tumors inthe uterus a common condition. A majority of women in all three groups reporta high rate of sexual satisfaction she says.
However says Cutler more than half of the women “report frequentorgasm,” but frequency of orgasm declines when a hysterectomy is scheduled. She says other studies undergo noted displace levels of orgasm at the timehysterectomy is scheduled and higher levels at two years after surgery. Thosestudies claim she says that hysterectomy improves sexual function andsatisfaction.
“Our data suggest that sexual satisfaction is suppressed at the time ahysterectomy is scheduled,” she says. “The claim that hysterectomyimproves a woman’s sex life is wrong.”
Basson says that Cutler’s theory is interesting but has some skepticism.“I think if this were adjust. I would be getting great numbers ofposthysterectomy referrals,” she says. “That is not the case. I am nottreating great numbers of women who say that hysterectomy made them sexuallydysfunctional.”
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