IamA now an 18 year old with a hole in my heart who takes Viagra for medication AMA!

I've heard pumping your fist really tight makes you lose the erection. Any truth to this? I always seem to forget to do this and confirm everytime I have a boner.

Any flexing/tensing of anything away from the groin area will make you lose the erection eventually. I prefer to use my leg as it is bigger and requires more blood to be diverted but I would guess the fist works too although I've never tried it.

This is probably a boring question compared to the others as it's nothing to do with your medication, more your condition.

I know someone who was born with a hole in their heart but it was fixed at the time. They still take certain precautions and visit a specialist so not as serious as your condition.

Anyway, my question is, do you find there are certain activities that you can't take part in because of your heart? My friend works out a lot, mostly weight lifting, but hasn't asked the specialist if they should be as they only recently started. I just wondered if you had any kinds of restrictions like extreme exercise/cardio?

BTW, these questions will be asked at the next appointment in a few weeks, but just wanted to know if there is anything to worry about!

I do weight lifting and I also ski and play soccer and such. I just don't do anything where I feel it really strains me and puts pressure on my heart.

My doctors have said I shouldn't do any weights that I can't do 30 reps of. But they're very supportive of exercise. As long as you're not blacking out every time you (or your friend rather) are doing exercise, or feeling unusual pains and such, you'll be fine.

Must be a hard life

So hard.

I, too, have a ventricular septic defect but mine was very small and has been shrinking since I was a child. As of a few years ago it is still visible but hopefully soon it will be completely gone. Is yours shrinking as well or will you be medicating for the rest of your life?

No, mine has grown with my body proportionately so it looks like I'll always have it. But as I've grown up with it and got used to it I've got fitter and healthier. Medication may not even always be necessary if I continue to stay fit (other than possibly 1 aspirin a day) but I'll always have to be monitored.

Do you go to the beach?

I have a feeling this is another joke going way way over my head.

But if it's not: Yes, when I can, but I live nowhere near one so not very often.

Well no surprises there. Pfizer initially was looking to create aa drug to help people with low heart rates. The erection was a side effect and they nearly threw the whole. Study out thinking it's pointless. Only later did they realise it really was an issue and hey, it's today one of their cash cows.

Yup. Although it's interesting they almost threw it out. I would've thought any drug company who came across a boner-inducing medication would want to keep that and flog it to rich old guys who still want to bang their trophy wives? Haha. But anyway I'm glad they didn't throw it out!

So do you constantly walk around at half mast? I'm being genuinely curious here.

Haha, no I don't. More often than most people I suspect, but not all the time. Maybe 40% of the time.

Photo two says no aspirin, but you said viagra and aspirin are the only meds you can take.

What sort of interaction would they cause together, and do you have to stop taking one if you take the other?

Ah that's the one from my old AMA I didn't notice that, thanks for pointing it out! I am on aspirin now. They don't interact as far as I'm aware, that was simply a clinic letter stating what medications I was on at the time.

Aspirin thins the blood, while viagra causes vasodilation within blood vessels. Unless there's some chemical compounds in them that interact they don't interfere with each other in any way that I've noticed..

I must say you are already the smoothest person I've seen this year. And I read two comments.

Why, thank you. I'm flattered.