The Viagra-Blindness Connection Big Pharma Kept Hidden - Sheryl Attkisson

The Viagra-Blindness Connection Big Pharma Kept Hidden - Sheryl Attkisson

March 24, 2025

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A new study finds a concerning increase in risk of blindness with weekly use of popular semaglutides: Ozempic for diabetes and Wegovy for obesity.

The type of blindness is called nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy or NAION. Experts describe it as a sort of stroke in the retina of the eye. It is painless, non-treatable, and typically irreversible.

NAION is the same form of blindness associated with erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs such as Viagra. I broke that story globally in 2005 on CBS News.

With Viagra, I was surprised that it was an eye doctor rather than the original prescribing doctors, such as urologists, who did the detective work that revealed this pattern of blindness.

With Ozempic, it is also eye specialists who are noting the vision-related side effect.

While many were initially brushing off the reports regarding Viagra nearly 20 years ago, I combed through the database of adverse event reports, found additional studies, and saw an obvious pattern—not only with blindness but also with hearing loss in Viagra patients. Both blindness and hearing loss were eventually added to Viagra’s warning label and those of other ED drugs.

If the government had more rigorous reporting requirements and more efficient monitoring of reported medicine side effects to the federal database, then the FDA would be alerting us promptly to risks of prescription drugs— sooner than we often hear about through other means. As it stands, any delays in getting the word out benefits the pharmaceutical industry. The longer it takes to put a warning on a drug or pull it off the market for safety reasons, the more of the drug that can be sold in the meantime to unsuspecting patients.

Pfizer initially tried to discredit the notion of a link between Viagra and blindness, saying none had shown up in its studies.

Regarding semiglutides, according to the new study in the International Journal of Retina and Vitreous:

During five years of observation of all persons with T2D in Denmark, use of once-weekly semaglutide independently more than doubled the risk of NAION. Given the irreversible nature of NAION, it is important to acknowledge this risk, and upcoming studies should aim to identify high-risk subgroups.

NAION is a tricky disorder, as I learned while covering the Viagra issue. Sometimes the vision loss is preceded by patients seeing changes in color. Maybe they see a lot of blues, for example, after taking Viagra. Some people begin losing their ability to see color. The vision loss is painless, so some patients continued taking Viagra even after they noticed a difference in color perception; or blurriness, a shadow, or a blind spot in their vision. The actual loss of vision, when it occurs, is typically sudden and is noticed after the patient wakes up. It usually affects one eye. Doctors say it cannot be reversed.

READ MORE: https://sharylattkisson.com/2024/12/blindness-risk-from-ozempic-and-wegovy-mirrors-that-of-viagra/

Original: https://youtu.be/1x7jYS7yMuE

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