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To: DaiS who wrote (9651)	6/15/1998 5:00:00 PM
From: Frostman	Respond to of 23519

DiaS, here are two interesting sites that are on-topic here. I suggest that everyone look at their home pages. Frostman usadg.com a free site, you may have to type the address in manually, can't get it to be an active link here. medecenteractive.com free if you are a doc

To: DaiS who wrote (9651)	6/15/1998 7:43:00 PM
From: DaiS	Respond to of 23519

DON'T TAKE TOO MUCH VIAGRA ANY expert will tell you that there is an optimum dose of Viagra for each person. It may be 25mg, 50mg or 100mg. But if you take twice your dose, it will not cause twice the performance. If that is not enough of a deterrent, listen to the testimony of someone who has tried it. Three months ago British taxi-driver Ian Marsh was paid œ900 to take part in a new Viagra trial at Pfizer's research unit at Kent and Canterbury Hospital. It was aimed at discovering what level of the drug the body could safely absorb. 'I went in on a Sunday night,' he said, 'and was given a medical to ensure there was no alcohol or drugs in my blood. You're not permitted to take alcohol or caffeine in the 48 hours before the tests.' Next morning at 9am, along with 11 other volunteers, the 27-year-old father of three from Deal was given 400mg - four times the maximum prescribed amount. Two other men were given placebos. 'The dosage was in clear solution form and it tasted revolting, 'Ian recalled. 'Fifteen minutes after I had this incredibly powerful sensation of blood surging upwards to my head. It was a strange, extremely unpleasant feeling, one that I've never had before. 'The pressure in my head was incredible. It felt as if it was going to explode. The intensity of this rush lasted an hour, then it became a splitting headache in the frontal lobe 'At about llam I started feeling nauseous. I still had a splitting headache but worst of all, I was experiencing unbelievable back pain as well. It felt as if someone was sticking a knife into the bottom of my back, and then twisting it. 'Eventually I forced myself to stand up. I found that if I could stay bent over double, it eased the pain slightly. I began experiencing aches all over my body, deep aches in my bones. The whole thing was horrendous. I felt as if I was going to die. My head didn't stop pounding all day. 'Everyone else - except the two men on placebos, of course - experienced the same side-effects and spent the whole day lying in bed, writhing in agony. ' As the doses were repeated, the agony for many of the guinea pigs became too much to bear. Additionally, they developed such a aversion to bright light that the nurse used a torch on her rounds because all the lights had to be switched off. Mercifully, on the fourth of ten allotted days the experiment was halted. 'I think what I went through proves that it is definately not the case that the more Viagra you take, the better you sex life becomes,'added Ian with understatement. 'I'm sure we were just too ill to even think about sex.' The Viagra Fun Club be warned. Daily Mail, Monday June 15, 1998 - Natalie Clarke

To: DaiS who wrote (9651)	6/15/1998 7:48:00 PM
From: DaiS	Respond to of 23519

YOU MAY NEED TO TAKE MORE VIAGRA THAN YOU THINK Three hours drive from Manhattan, high in the Pocono Mountains, septuagenarian former fire chief Irving Mesher and his friend Frank Kennedy, are shamelessly dosing themselves with blue pills in an attempt to re-live their youth. Mr Mesher boasts of his antics with women most of whom appear scantily clad in his photograph album. 'I like to average about three times a week, so I used to carry a needle to give myself potency shots. I don't mind giving myself a shot like some guys do, but the trouble is it will make you feel aroused even if you're watching a football game. With viagra you don't need stimulation.' The viagra worked (at first); but for some reason it hasn't been nearly so effective since, he muses. Maybe he'll go back to the jabs. Daily Mail, Monday June 15, 1998 - David Jones

To: DaiS who wrote (9651)	6/15/1998 7:49:00 PM
From: DaiS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

E. Douglas Whitehead, director of the Association of Male Sexual Dysfunction in New York City, confides that he recently prescribed 1000 Viagra tables for a German patient, worth $10,000 even before they reach the black market, possibly in the UK. 'Maybe he's going to sell them, I don't know,' he says. The image of teenage children fuelling their already-libidinous bodies with what on American urologist describes as 'rocket fuek' will rightly send shudders through the parents of Middle England. Belfast-based consultant physician Dr Wallace Dinsmore, who specialises in impotence treatment, spells out an even more unthinkable danger: that of viagra falling into the hands of perverts. 'The doctors wouldn't necessarily know they were paedophiles,' he says. 'Some GPs would be likely to prescribe it widely and inappropriately. Daily Mail, Monday June 15, 1998 - David Jones

To: DaiS who wrote (9651)	6/15/1998 7:52:00 PM
From: DaiS	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23519

Regarding the Social use of Viagra and Pfizer soul-searching Viagra was certainly not marketed for the gratuitous use of thrill-seekers. Indeed the company making it, Pfizer, was so concerned about the potentially explosive social impact of a drug powerful enough to transform an anxious under-performer into a rampant stallion that the launch was preceded by much soul-searching at boardroom level. 'You have to remember that this is an old-established organisation that has built its reputation on antiseptics like TCP and treatments for things like rheumatoid arthritis and schizophrenia,' says one employee. 'They were stepping into uncharted territory by putting out a potency pill. They couldn't be sure how it would be received and that was a big risk.' Although viagra's sales have exceeded all expectations since it arrived in U.S. pharmacies in April, bosses have watched with growing concern as some of their worst fears-and others they can never have envisaged-have come to pass. Daily Mail, Monday June 15, 1998 - David Jones (The employee not named - DaiS)