Viagra Not Effective in Women

Women across the world are eagerly eying on arrival of medicine that help them boost libido. But, to their dismay, no drug has been found effective; be it current drug like Viagra or a drug under experiment or clinical trial. Female Viagra is waited so much so that thousands of searches are being made for ‘female viagra’ or ‘pink viagra’. A study trial of Viagra (indicated for erectile dysfunction in male), for sex desire enhancement in women, had created buzz in recent past. It was found that Viagra helps increase blood flow (to genital area), enhance sexual desire, orgasm, arousal and improved lubrication. Making base of this findings many sales representative started promoting Viagra for female. However, such promotions cost billions of dollars settlement with USA health authorities.

Given the earlier result and huge market, Pfizer conducted a detail trial on women with Viagra to market Viagra to be first female viagra. The clinical trial found that Viagra did help increase blood flow but showed little or no effect on libido as compare to the placebo. On the other hand, use of Viagra showed side effects such headache, flushing and vision problem. Subsequently, Pfizer declared Viagra to be ineffective and pulled out of race.

Furthermore, an anti-depression drug called flibanserin had shown significant improvement in female sex desire. Flibanserin was submitted to FDA for approval as a female libido enhancer. Again, FDA panel, after studying trial data, refused to give approval saying flibanserin was ineffective to treat sexual dysfunction in females.