FDA regulators have updated the warning labels on methylphenidate products such as Ritalin, Focalin and Concerta to reflect reports of prolonged, painful erections (priapism) associated with the drugs. Â The age range of patients who experienced the effect was 8 to 33, with an average age of 12. In some cases surgery, a shunt, or needle aspiration were necessary to remove blood from the penis. Â Priapism is even more commonly associated with non-stimulant ADHD drugs such as Strattera, the regulators warned.
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Of further interest:
Painful Erections Linked to ADHD Drugs Including Ritalin by FDA (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Who needs Viagra when you can apparently get the same side effect from an ADHD drug?
Unbelievable!
Duane
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They not only shrink your brain now they give you painful erections! What next!
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No kidding, Stephen. It’s all insane.
Duane
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“About 11 percent of children ages 4 to 17, or 6.4 million kids, have been diagnosed with ADHD as of 2011,” that’s disgusting. This is mass drugging to shut up troublesome children, mainly boys.
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I don’t disagree with you John, and really appreciate your input here! But, though the crux of your objection is spot on essential, it overlooks a not insignificant category afflicting, particularly. boys. One excellent example of this category (to show before explaining it away, at least) is illustrated in Johan Harri”s book, Stolen Focus. Turns out Sammi Timimi inherited a kid diagnosed and drugged ADHD. When Timimi went to the “boys” classroom, he witnessed a teacher with no control of her classroom, and whom scapegoated a particular group of boys, one of which was Timimi’s new patient. My point is that the reliability of the objectivity, interpretation, and character of the person presenting or initiating an ADHD claim, is, IMO, an oversight of significant if not troubling proportions. Simply put, many of the kids who get the ADHD diagnosis would never have gotten it 10, 20, or more years ago, and do now out of institutionalized ignorance jettisoned by the sheer opportunity of justifiable and professionally rewarding utility.
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