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This is a comparison review of Viagra made by Pfizer and generic Sildenafil pills, written after my own experience with both.

First I will give you a little bit of background about the medicine and about my affection.

Sildenafil citrate was discovered by two Pfizer chemists in the Kent research facility from Great Britain in the year 1996. Since ‘98, Pfizer Inc. has marketed this substance with the name Viagra as treatment for erection problems. Though I am somewhat ashamed of this, that’s exactly my problem too. The "symptoms" started 4 years ago when I turned 39. My penis I am unable to arouse the organ and maintain erections for pleasurable amounts of time. So I was prescribed by the doc. 50mg of Viagra branded Sildenafil citrate before going to bed. (Yes, you need a prescription for Sildenafil in Europe too).

I’ve been loyal to Pfizer’s Viagra and to my doctor’s pharmacy for quite some time now, but the fact that only one 50mg tablet costs me $18 makes sex less pleasurable at 43. As I grow old the value of sex on drugs diminishes so I decided to try the alternative: Generic Viagra.

Enough with the pillow talk, let’s get to some serious experience tales.

I did some research online and found this website called Canadian Meds World that sells generic Sildenafil citrate tablets starting $1.79 for the ones containing 50mg. Well that’s exactly 10 times cheaper than the ones my family doctor gave me. Where’s the catch? I dug more about this online pharmacy that claims to be owned by "Canadian Pharmacy" and found out that they display fake certificates from Verisign, Pharma Checker, ADA and CidaRx on their product pages and also fake security certified logos from Visa, GeoTrust, Verisign and ScanAlert on their order processing page.

Now I knew the pharmacy is not entirely legal, but I really wanted the 10 Viagra, 10 Cialis "trial pack" on sale for $69. And guess what? With that I am also eligible for another 4 free Viagra pills. It’s a risk I was willing to take. $70 dollars is not much in comparison to what I used to pay.

Well, I placed the order and after 15 days the package arrived. Huray! Overall, the order process was good, except for the initial fear of fraud. It’s prety descrete, in a small cartboard box. Here are the generic Sildelafil and Tadalafil, Viagra resp. Cialis lookalikes:

As you can see, they are very much similar to the original brand Viagra I have. The tablets resemble the same shape and size, only the plastic is of lower quality. I’m not paying for plastic after all…:

Effects

• I experienced no difference from the original when used the generic Sildenafil.
• The Generic is harder to snort, thus it takes a few minutes longer to get into my system. Viagra is harder and thus can be granulated to finer powder.
• Though I never tried Cialis before, it took a little longer for it to kick in: 40minutes. This may be the standard timing.

Overall:

Viagra is Sildenafil citrate and so is Generic Viagra. The difference is who makes them and how expensive they are.