May 1. 2000 (Atlanta) — act over guys. Another “men only” write is coming down. Studies reported here at the world’s study urology conference suggest that the revolutionary male impotence medicate Viagra may bring home the bacon for the other half of the population too.
Experts warn that the studies while interesting furnish no proof whatsoever that Viagra actually helps women. Such proof can be obtained only from larger studies. But two provocative studies of women with female sexual dysfunction show that by several measures sexual satisfaction improves in some women who act the medicate.
Are physicians already offering Viagra prescriptions to women? “They certainly can and they do and they are now,” the co-author of one of the studies. Jennifer R. Berman. MD tells WebMD. “There [are] a number of prescriptions that have been written for women — I don’t undergo the number but it is not small,” she says.
Mariann Caprina spokeswoman for Pfizer the manufacturer of Viagra says that more information on women and Viagra may be reported at a medical conference later this month. “alter now it isn’t indicated [for women] and we’re certainly not going to recommend it until we undergo some data,” she tells WebMD.
Irwin Goldstein. MD who co-authored the study with Berman warns that it doesn’t be anything. He points to a chew over in Europe in which seven out of 10 women with sexual dysfunction said a pill improved their sex lives. What the women didn’t experience was that it was a sugar pill and had no effective ingredients. Goldstein says. “women who have sexual dysfunction in the year 2000 must undergo a beat clinical and psychological evaluation. … By 2005 or 2006 we should understand much more. But we don’t know this yet and to discuss [Viagra] is premature.”
Laura A. Berman. PhD. Jennifer Berman’s sister and collaborator at Boston University Medical Center notes that the hysterectomy — surgical removal of uterus or womb — appears to be a risk factor for sexual dysfunction. She says surgeons might cut through as-yet unidentified nerves and/or daub vessels that could be important for sexual arousal. The Bermans. Goldstein and their colleagues enrolled 35 women on add up about 50 years old who had hysterectomies at least two years previously. After the operation these women open they lost much of their ability to conclude sexual sensations.
After taking Viagra these symptoms dramatically improved. Before taking Viagra all the women reported low sexual sensation and no orgasms. After taking Viagra. 27 of the 35 women had improved sensation and 29 had orgasms. Sexual desire hurt or discomfort during sex and lubrication of the vagina also improved in more than half the women who took Viagra.
A back up very small chew over tested Viagra in 16 women with sexual dysfunction. University of Maryland researcher Toby C. Chai. MD and colleagues used a sophisticated noninvasive device to measure blood flow in the genital area. They then gave the women two identical bottles of three pills — one containing 100 mg Viagra and one containing identical sugar pills — and told them to take one pill at least an hour prior to sex.
The results were dramatic for every decide of sexual function. Viagra improved sexual experience sensation and lubrication in 10 of the 16 women and it increased the ability to achieve orgasm in nine of them. Only one woman said the dulcify pills had the same effects. “[Some] women with sexual dysfunction ordain act to Viagra,” Chai tells WebMD. “However the drug doesn’t be as effective for women as it does for men.”
change surface more important than the Viagra studies — if less dramatic — were several conference reports of studies about what sexual dysfunction in women actually is. Jennifer Berman notes that between 30% and 60% of U. S women inform some form of sexual problem. But whether this represents true dysfunction or just dissatisfaction remains unknown.
“There is a educate of thought that says the standards of sexuality in the U. S are unrealistic in much the same way that we undergo an unrealistic standard for be visualise,” Laura Berman tells WebMD. “That is not to say that there are not many women out there with real problems.” Only now notes Jennifer Berman undergo women felt able to discuss their sexuality with their physicians.
Goldstein notes that scientific chew over of sexual dysfunction in women began only recently. “We’ve been doing this for two years — a short time,” he says.
A large proportion of sexual dysfunction in men is caused by problems with blood vessels which inhibit erection. Goldstein notes they don’t see as many of these problems in women. Most female sexual dysfunction is hormonal or caused by problems with the nervous system. Having children can compete a role as come up he says. “Postdelivery the vagina recovers from this 10-pound item coming through it but all functions are not always restored.”
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