Cialis (tadalifil citrate)
Cialis is a drug used for the treatment of erectile
dysfunction in men. The drug is FDA approved in the U.S. and is available from
the pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly. There are also several generic
preparations available worldwide. This drug has became on the most popular
drugs for erectile dysfunction today. For the purposes of steroid users the use
of tadalafil citrate is rather limited beyond that of a “recreational” purpose.
One exception to this may be once a steroid user is coming off of
anabolic-androgenic steroids and have suffered a significant reduction in their
ability to perform sexually and/or their sex drive. The use of drugs such as
tadalafil citrate can help to alleviate some of the difficulty many have during
this period of time.
Type 5 phosphodiesterase isoenzyme inhibitors such as tadalafil citrate work by
causing the smooth-muscles to relax in the cavernosal arteries. This in turn
allows penile vasodilation and erection to occur in response to sexual stimuli.
This response allows one to achieve and maintain an erection and will help with
doing so for a number of causes of the erectile dysfunction.
The effects produced by type 5 phosphodiesterase isoenzyme inhibitors can
include other benefits such as a reduction in blood pressure and exhibiting
other cardioprotective properties. This reduction in blood pressure includes a
lowering of arterial pressure, systolic and diastolic. Other heart protecting
effects such as an improvement in atherosclerotic disease and endothelial
function can also be observed with sustained use of the drug. These benefits,
while having been proven under clinical settings, have not been put into
practice in any substantive way by medical professionals on any large scale.
Nearly all of the research and scientific study of the drug tadalafil citrate
has been conducted using male subjects. A small number of studies however have
been done with female users. For the most part these studies have indicated
that for the purpose of sexual function there appears to be a benefit that
females could render from the use of tadalafil citrate; at this time however
not enough research has been completed to be able to make recommendations about
the safe and effective use of tadalafil citrate for females. For the most part
tadalafil citrate is well tolerated by the vast majority of users, but some
risks do exist. The most commonly referred to side effect is long lasting
erections requiring medical intervention. These are relatively rare and are
almost never seen when a user is using the correct dosage of the drug. But if
such a condition does arise the user should seek medical attention as
significant physical harm can come to the user if they allow the symptom to
persist for a lengthy period of time. A more dramatic and concerning negative
side effect that has more recently been publicized to a great extent is visual
impairment linked to the use of type 5 phosphodiesterase isoenzyme inhibitors
such as tadalafil citrate. This visual impairment is caused when blood flow to
the optic nerve is disrupted; a condition known as nonarteritic ischemic optic
neuropathy.
For most users, doses ranging between ten to forty milligrams should be sufficient to achieve the desired results, but as always users may use larger doses depending on their tolerance for the drug and/or their specific needs. The active life of tadalfail citrate is thirty-six to forty-eight hours; this long active life of course being one of the benefits of the drug and a half-life of approximately seventeen and one half hours, therefore one dose should be adequate for three or four days unless the user believes that the initial dosage that was administered was not enough to produce the expected results. This means that at most two or three doses per week would be the absolute maximum that a user would need to administer. The majority of the commercially available forms of tadalafil citrate is produced and marketed as either tablets or capsules. Some underground and non-pharmaceutical company producers however also produce liquid products containing the drug. All of these products are ingested orally.











