The poor man needed to be operated on in order to get the needle out...

Before the arrival of Viagra and the other erectile dysfunction drugs Cialis and Levitra if you suffered from erectile dysfunction you could not simply just pop a pill but you would have to either have a penile implant involving a complicated operation or you could use a special self administered injection which would be inserted into your penis.

As you can imagine the joys of making love would be seriously dampened if you knew that before any sexual experience you would have to get a syringe and needle out and inject your penis with a liquid. It is likely also that your sexual partner would also hardly be in the mood for sex after you had injected yourself. However some men who were desperate before Viagra came along and people who cannot use Viagra today still use these injections in order to have sex. If there was no other way practically all men would use the injections.

In fact we know that men are still using these injections, especially men who have heart problems or blood pressure problems that mean that they cannot use erectile dysfunction medication. Recently we came across a story of a man who is suing the makers of one erectile dysfunction injection called Caverject Impulse for the sum of $75,000 He claims that when he injected himself using the proper syringe that comes with the package the needle snapped and became implanted in his penis causing him much pain and distress. The company that makes Caverject Impulse is Pharmacia & Upjohn and they say that the whole apparatus is perfectly safe if used properly.

The poor man in question needed to be operated on in order to get the needle out of his penis.  In the court case that is still going on it was noted that the man had been using the Caverject Impulse for eighteen months previously and had suffered from no side effects.  This information will be used by Pharmacia & Upjohn to prove that there is nothing wrong with their syringes if they are used properly.