Viagra could well end up making more money from these other uses

Yet again Viagra is being put to another use. A new research project is looking at whether the famous impotence drug could be used to ease men who suffer from pelvic pain which is a very common ailment of older men. As many as 10% of all men in the United Kingdom suffer from what is called pelvic pain syndrome the symptoms of which are groin ache and bladder discomfort. Researchers have been speculating on whether the sildenafil citrate medicine could help to open blood vessels that could be the reason for the pain.

Pelvic pain syndrome according to the Cleveland Clinic in the United States will affect around 50% of all men at some point and in one of two forms, acute and chronic. The first type is also called prostatitis and can be the case of urinary difficulties and eventually erectile dysfunction. The other type is a bacterial infection that must be dealt with using antibiotics. Researchers think that Viagra may ease up the blood vessels that cause the pain and ultimately the infections and thus give men a respite from the constant pain.

Viagra has done so well as an erectile dysfunction drug that to a certain extent Pfizer stopped research with the sildenafil compound in other areas. Now Pfizer seem to be doing more in the way of research on Viagra for other ailments such as pulmonary arterial hypertension, Raynaud's disease (another blood flow problem), heart failure, benign prostatic hyperplasia and even for an enlarged prostate.

Viagra could well end up making more money from these other uses and thus increase its earning power for Pfizer. Another benefit may be that many men are too ashamed to go and get Viagra for themselves and the possibility that they would be able to pretend that this was for one of the other things that the sildenafil citrate drug could cure could help to remove the embarrassment.