V. Sexual stimulants and sex enhancing drugs

What are sexual stimulants and sex enhancing drugs?

These are “pills”, drinks, or ointments that are commonly offered over the internet and in various drug outlets for various sex oriented purposes including:

• Erectile dysfunction

• Female sexual dysfunction

• Penis enlargement

• Improve sexual performance

• female breast enlargement

• increase libido among other reasons

examples of these drugs include:§

• Viagra

• Cialis

• Levitra

• Enzoy

How do sexual stimulants and sex enhancing drugs affect my body?

These drugs may increase§ testosterone levels in your body and could be effective should your problem be due to hormonal deficiency.

Your body could be exposed§ to harmful contaminants that some of these drugs contain. Some of the substances you could be exposing your self to include mold, yeast, dangerous bacteria, pesticides, and lead.

You risk consuming some§ unappealing substances such as fecal matter that contaminate some of the herbal pills, possibly from animals grazing near the plants harvested for herbal ingredients.

Some of these drugs do not§ have any real effect on your body and you may only be experiencing a placebo effect when using them, i.e. psychological effect making you think you can perform better increasing your confidence, when there is no actual physical or physiological change.

What happens to me when I abuse sexual stimulants and sexual enhancing drugs?

If you are abusing these drugs you risk suffering adverse and serious side effects such as: severe hypotension or stroke§

For men the penis may remain erect and fail to return to its flaccid state which can be a very painful experience.§

You risk getting skin irritations in case you are using lubricants i.e. itching, burning sensation, rashes§

You may also experience some of the following common side effects:§

• Sneezing and headache

• flushing – change of skin colour (usually reddening if you have light skin)

• Dyspepsia (indigestion with chronic or recurrent pain in your upper abdomen, upper abdominal fullness and you may feel full earlier than expected when eating)

• Palpitations (abnormal awareness of your heartbeat)

Photophobia – you may§ experience of discomfort or pain to the eyes due to light exposure even under normal lighting conditions. Due to this you may impair your vision or go completely blind.

You could also go deaf.§

If you are using herbal§ sexual stimulants you could suffer from various stomach problems including worms since some of these drugs are contaminated.

How can I identify a person who is abusing prescription drugs?

• It is difficult for you to identify a person abusing prescription medication since they do not have the more common physical indicators of most other abused drugs such as bleary-eyes or slurring words, they actually seem to have a lot to live for.

• These in most cases the abuser appears normal to you mostly due to the social acceptability of the drugs you see them using, they blend in well in society and only in extreme cases will you notice any abnormal tendencies such as sudden bouts of deep sleep.

• You will only realise a person has been abusing a prescription drug after they are hospitalised due to an overdose.