diabetes Ed And Va Rationing Of Meds

[john999]

I told my primary I was having ED problems because of the depression drugs, narcotics and diabetes. She wrote a scrip for me but only two pills a month?????? What the hell is this? Is this normal? I have not filed for SC for the ED problem yet,but is two pills a month the normal perscription you get?

[otey2171]

You obviously don't understand a male point of view. also, some of us would like to have families. sex isn't just recreational. I know a few people that are addicted to prescription pain killers, they have a couple beers and a couple vicodins and then drive. That is also dangerous and should be looked at. I also don't understand your point about std's. People with std's are frequently people that sleep with multiple partners. Its kind of difficult to sleep with many partners with 4 little blue pills a month. I just don't understand your logic. I need viagra and my wife would be very angry if i didn't use viagra. without it ,it causes marital problems which is also hard on everybody including children. VIAGRA is not a evil drug.

Edited April 1, 2006 by otey2171

[jessejames]

I see it as one of the MANY, MANY attempts this Administration (most of whom never served) trying to drive yet another wedge between veterans. Like because I was wounded in COMBAT with disabling residuals, I am a disabled vet....but the poor guy or girl in Iraq who has a little downtown and falls breaking their back playing a game of basketball trying to relax and unwind, then that person doesn't meet the same standards when it comes to rationing healthcare or compensation because there's not enough money to go around. It's their same twisted way of thinking that they never made any mistakes in going into Iraq. We need a change of LEADERS!!!!!!

[SeattleShay]

You obviously don't understand a male point of view. also, some of us would like to have families. sex isn't just recreational. I know a few people that are addicted to prescription pain killers, they have a couple beers and a couple vicodins and then drive. That is also dangerous and should be looked at. I also don't understand your point about std's. People with std's are frequently people that sleep with multiple partners. Its kind of difficult to sleep with many partners with 4 little blue pills a month. I just don't understand your logic. I need viagra and my wife would be very angry if i didn't use viagra. without it ,it causes marital problems which is also hard on everybody including children. VIAGRA is not a evil drug.

How is you not being able to have a full erection hard on your children, I don't understand that at all?

Must be a male logic thing... :)

First of all I never said that Viagra was an evil drug, I said that the VA was giving it indiscriminately to EVIL PEOPLE, ie sexual predator that could harm your wife and children, and that it needed to stop doing that.

If your wife would leave you over sex, then you need to sit down and talk and maybe seek counseling because you have all of my sympathy.

[otey2171]

Do you think that all sexual pedators need viagra. Sure there are some but the percentage that require viagra is probably small. I'm not a person that hasn't been effected. My mother was raped when I was 13 and my wife was raped when she was 14. That was long before viagra. Rapes are going to occure with or without viagra. Also, you don't understand that loosing the sexual part of a relationship is very stressfull. You SAY you love sex, but it sounds to me its not important. I look at the sex predators that have to register and I see mostly younger healthy looking men. A man does NOT need an erection to rape or molest their victoms. The people that are on anti-deppresants like myself need viagra. Can you imagine being depressed for what ever reason and then loosing yet another thing in your life. Having erectile dysfunction can cause a person to stop taking their anti-depressant medication causing all sorts of problems. suicide homicide. Stopping people from getting viagra is the wrong answer. You have your opinion and I have mine. My wife who was raped at 14 is a mental health nurse and agrees that viagra is not the problem.also should the va do back ground checks on the veterans it gives narcotic pain medications to make sure they haven't had drug problems.

Edited April 1, 2006 by otey2171

[Jay Johnson]

Honestly, getting angry about the VA prescribing ED meds to sex offenders is really just spreading propaganda that makes fixing the issue of rape impossible. Rape is not a SEXUAL act...it is either an emulation of a learned behavior (IE - the offender was molested as a child/teen) or it is an emulation of violent behavior (IE - kid was beaten and abused and feels an urge to act that violence out on others...or saw his/her father beat the mother regularly). My guess is that the ED meds are because the sexual predators have a hard time with NORMAL sex with their spouses and use the meds to "appear" normal....I bet not a single one uses it in the act of a crime.

[Pete53]

I have several meds that the VA is requiring pill splitting. I personally think that this is wrong. Some of these pills are designed not to be split. Veterans deserve better.