Risk your life for love? Sometimes it happens even unknowingly.
The drug
Contrary to those who think that falling in love after the age of 80 means holding hands and taking long walks, an elderly gentleman from Sant'Antioco did not want to limit himself to the Platonic parenthesis: making use of the powerful means offered by pharmaceutical chemistry, he wanted to enter the concrete passionate phase with the partner with whom he lives his second youth. Perhaps too busy between memories of the past and the search for the perfect physical shape in front of his better half, however, he forgot the quantity of blue pills already ingested during the day. The heat of the moment and age-related forgetfulness did the rest. In fact, the siren that he heard immediately afterwards was not due to the maximum exaltation reached with the help of the massive dose of the drug, rather due to the strong pain that occurred in the chest and the tachycardia that never ceased due to the love and the passion towards his partner, but for the beating organ par excellence, or the heart that has started to give him serious problems. So the woman raised the alarm. The worst was averted when the elderly Latin lover was finally hospitalized where, after confessing to the doctors that he had taken six Viagra pills, the danger returned with dedicated treatments also to eliminate the severe pain.
The doctor
«Not often, but these are cases that unfortunately happen - says Viviana Lantini, head of the emergency rooms of Carbonia and Iglesias - cause severe pain that is concentrated in the genitals, dramatically increasing the heart rate. Often the patient, because he is ashamed, avoids telling the doctors on duty the real cause of the illness". The best way to deal with it is to always talk to your doctor. «After all, the problem has always existed and today, thanks to this type of drug, it is possible to overcome the difficulties not always due to age but also to pathologies, rather than stress or traumatic events». Dr. Lantini wants to offer a strong recommendation: «The internet market dedicated to drugs such as Viagra, Cialis, Levitra and Spedra is spreading like wildfire - she says - but does not offer guarantees on the content and even less on the certification of the drug. Therefore, the advice is always the same, talk about it first with the doctor who will also explain the possible dosage and buy only in pharmacies ».
Stefano Garau
