Viagra and other similar products for men are well-known and very popular in almost all countries. Everyone can buy them with a prescription from a doctor or without it through different sites and drugstores. It is an easy and often reasonable way to solve a problem.
And what about the same medications for women? Unfortunately, it is obviously that a lot of women do not use them and even sometimes they are afraid or embarrassed to do so. Why? May be because of the lack of information?
Despite of various female sexual disorders drugmakers do not produce a lot of relevant treatments for women. There are only a few of them that are available to get even through Internet. Why? May be they do not work? Or is it too difficult for sexual medicine to help women in their beds and lives?
There are too many questions about female libidos and female Viagra.
And what is Viagra for women? Female Viagra consists one active substance - fillbanserin.
Fillbanserin is a drug that can be used to treat hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), defined as a decreased sexual desire in pre-menopausal women.
HSDD is the most common diagnosed sexual disorder in women. The dysfunction may be caused by distress and different psychological problems. It is usually a complex of difficulties that causes HSDD; it is not only a physical unable to have sex as in a men's case, hypoactive sexual desire disorder always has psychological roots.
Initially this drug was designed as an antidepressant, but suddenly women who took it for a long time (more than 4 weeks) began to report about an increase in sexual desire and improvements in their sexual lives.
Fillbanserin is a non-hormonal drug and impacts on women's brain (to be more accurate – on selective brain areas) making a balance between levels of neurotransmitters. A lack of any neurotransmitters can cause different disorders, for example, a decrease of serotonin causes depressions or, as the recent researches have showed, HSDD. So the right balance between them is very important for psychological status and therefore for sexual drive and desire.
Side effects are possible, the most common are insomnia, dizziness, fatigue, nausea and somnolence.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not approved fillbanserin in 2010. But in other countries this drug is legal and widely used by women to treat HSDD.
Of course, sexual medicine has to work hard to solve female desire's problems; now it becomes an actual challenge not only for sexual therapists but also for pharmacologists.
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