Viagra® is a medication commonly used by males suffering from erectile dysfunction.
This is the most studied ED medication, and scientists have researched different routes of its administration, including traditional oral, intravenous, and even intranasal.
Can You Snort Viagra? Scientific Data and Users’ Reviews
Each medication has bioavailability of some degree. In pharmacology, this terms refers to the percentage of the medication absorption, it shows the percentage of the substance which reaches the systemic circulation after administration.
When something is administered intravenously, the bioavailability is 100%.
However, other ways are associated with lowering this indicator.
When taken orally, the drug a bioavailability is about forty percent but it can be improved via nasal inhalation. As reported by Egyptian scientists Ahmed H. Elshafeey et al. (AAPS PharmSciTech, 2009), advantages of taking sildenafil intranasally include better biological availability through bypass of the liver metabolism, quicker absorption, avoidance of potential gastrointestinal side effects, and fast therapeutic effect.
This study was carried out on animals (rabbits) but its results can theoretically be extrapolated onto humans.
However, there is a different opinion regarding the possibility of taking the medication this way.
Some Reddit users reported that this will certainly cause a nosebleed. According to them, one can get much faster effect if they snort Viagra®, but no one will want to have sex with them due to bloody discharge from the nose.
Are There Are Any Snorting Versions?
In 2007, one British firm developed the drug VR004, intended for intranasal use. The developers claimed that this version of sildenafil can be absorbed into the blood extremely rapidly, namely in 60 seconds.
Nevertheless, the dose dependence of the drug was identified.
After several trials, it was concluded that usage of this tool for sniffing sildenafil should include a certain dosage. Respondents reported a positive effect on an erection after using this medication.
However, only a few men reported non-severe side effects that corresponded to adverse reactions during the use of conventional tablets.
However, the availability of this ‘miraculous’ medicament is currently unknown.
In some countries, such as Croatia, powder versions of sildenafil (other anti-ED substances) may be currently marketed.
However, at the moment there is no FDA-approved snorting Sildenafil Citrate version on the United States market.
So products which you can find online might be associated with health risks (due to absence of approval and appropriate checking prior to entering the market).
Conclusion
It is possible to use ‘little blue pill’ via intranasal route but the problem is that you are unlikely to find snorting version on the market nowadays.
Probably the key problem in this regard is associated with difficulties to exactly determine the proper dosage of the medicament when using it through nose.
Another potential issue is a risk of nosebleed occurrence.
