A Really Long Lasting Erection Almost Kills a Man
A 55-year-old Indian businessman, whose name has not been published for privacy, had a 21 day lasting erection, which doctors say could have killed him. The man was very lucky to get medical attention at the last minute.
This health condition is known as priapism, which happens when the erect penis does not return to its flaccid state after the stimulant that caused the erection is gone. In this condition, the blood (that flowed into the penis to make it erect) stays trapped into the penis causing it to remain “up”. If the erection lasts for more than 4 hours, it can cause serious problems including: permanent impotence, death of the penis (which may require amputation of the organ), and even death of the patient.
Priapism can be caused by other health problems, or as a reaction to the use of ED drugs (like Viagra, Cialis and Levitra). In this man’s case, doctors believe that the erection was triggered by a neurological disorder, and that the patient did not use Viagra or any other medication for impotence. Unfortunately and ironically, the man will be impotent for the rest of his life as a result of the surgical operation that saved his life.
The FDA and ED drug manufacturers persistently advice patients who take prescription ED medications (i.e. Viagra, Cialis and Levitra) to seek immediate medical care, or see their doctor, if an erection lasts for more than 4 hours. Otherwise, the price can be as high as the patient’s life.
Viagra Spam Targets Twitter Users
Due to the huge amounts of spam being sent out lately, and the “smarter” spam filters employed by most, if not all, email service providers, email spam started to get less effective for its operators. That’s why spammers are always seeking and trying new methods to deliver their unsolicited messages to naive-enough users who would fall for whatever the spammer is offering. Social networking sites are becoming more trendy and popular, and such sites have started attracting the interest and focus of many spammers and scammers.
Recently, a blast of Viagra spam messages targeted Twitter users who received “get bigger and last longer” offers with a link to a “pharmacy” site selling herbal/fake Viagra. The spam messages were sent out from other compromised Twitter accounts that belong to innocent users. Twitter has warned its users about this issue and urged those of possibly-hacked accounts to change their password immediately.
Viagra spam has always been a huge problem and source of concern to end users (who get lots of annoying pill ads), website owners (who get hit by spammers), manufacturers of authentic medications like Pfizer (Viagra maker), and health authorities. As long as Viagra sells, spammers will try to do anything to push it to as many potential online customers as possible. So, educating Internet users and consumers about the dangers of spam would (in my opinion) be a better investment than trying to put roadblocks in the spammers’ way, because they can always find one byway or another.
Hitler Took Custom Made Viagra Injections
A new book about the health of Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany, reveals that Hitler took a special form of Viagra to keep up with his mistress, Eva Braun, who was 23 years younger than him.
The claim is based on medical archives and papers from Hitler’s personal physician, Dr. Theodor Morell, who was well-known for his controversial and quirky treatments.
The papers revealed that Morell prepared an energy-boosting “medicine” that contained testosterone and a mix of young bulls’ semen and prostate glands. Morell gave this “Viagra” to Hitler as an injection, like he preferred to take most of his medications, because Hitler was afraid of pills. Who wants to take a pill that has bull semen in it, anyway? Yuck!
Testosterone supplements are used nowadays to improve male potency as an alternative to prescription ED drugs, like Viagra (sildenafil citrate) and Cialis (tadalafil). But I am not sure about the bulls’ semen and prostate glands.
Well, at the end of the day, there’s a great woman behind every great man, and a little blue pill in his pocket!
My Ever-Growing Spam Folder
Even though I am very careful not to post my email address publicly, each and every day I get tens to hundreds of spam messages. Most of it (probably more than 90%) is about Viagra, Cialis and other penis pills.
The titles of those emails usually range from funny to silly to stupid. It looks like spammers are coming up with ways to bypass spam filters. One of the stupidest and most detectable ways spammers use to try to fool email filters is using misspellings of the main keywords in their message. For example, I get tons of emails with titles like: Buy Viagara and Cialias, Cheaap Viaqra, Che@pest Viaggra, etc.
Only less than 1% of the spam gets through the filters into my inbox and the rest gets automatically junked.
I am still very amazed that some (or many) people are ignorant and naive enough to click on the links they get through spammy emails and actually buy whatever the spammer is selling. So, the question now is: who is more stupid, and whose fault is it, spammers or those who fall for it and pay the spammers (by buying the products promoted in spam emails)?