In the effort to roll back the hands of time, great progress might be made in some areas,
while other areas can be a little more problematic.
And one of those problem areas can be erectile dysfunction…
to the point where a little pharmaceutical assistance is not bad.
But at prices that range from $50 to $100 per pill for viagra or cialis, it’s can be really difficult to afford.
Well, today I’m going to explore some ways to cut costs on those medications…
to the point where they’re affordable for just about anyone. I’m talking less than 50 cents a pill!
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Here’s the hard, cold truth. As we men grow older and older,
the risk that we’ll suffer from ED just gets higher and higher.
In the United States today, most men are forced to pay for any ED medications out-of-pocket,
because most insurance plans don’t cover those meds.
If they do, they usually only cover 4 doses a month.
And drugs like viagra, cialis and levitra can be really expensive.
I recently did a search on the web for the costs of ED meds, and the results varied quite a bit.
But on average, without insurance, the costs ranged between $50 and $100 per pill.
Today, we’re going to be looking at a variety of strategies to bring those costs way, way down.
All the way down to under 50 cents per pill.
So, here’s the thing.
I’m now over 70 years old, and my ability to sport a woody has slowly declined over last 2 or 3 decades.
Now, I’ve done everything that I can to restore my equipment to factory specs,
but I’ve had less and less success as the years have piled up.
I’ve boosted my testosterone levels,
I do an exercise designed to raise my production of nitric oxide, which is critical for erections.
But I’ve had limited success.
So, like a lot of other guys my age, I’ve turned to medications to help me out.
Stuff like viagra and cialis.
But those medications are expensive, and they’ve gotten ridiculously so over the last several years.
To the point where quite honestly, I can longer afford them.
I live in Portland, Oregon, and there’s a pharmacy just down the street that’s really convient for me.
But that pharmacy charges $66 for a single pill of viagra, and cialis can cost up to $100.
For a single pill!!
So, I’ve been looking for a cheaper alternative.
Not an alternative drug, but a way to get the same drugs for a lot less.
Because, let’s face it.
I know that the pharmaceutical companies are greedy bastards,
and they’re just trying to gouge me, and you, for as much as they can.
I’ve been convinced for a long time that the research, manufacturing, packaging and branding costs of the drugs
in no way justify the outrageous costs that the drug companies are trying to charge me.
Now, I did an earlier video on cures for erectile dysfunction,
and you can check them out by clicking on the card up here, or on the link in the description below.
In that video, I talk about what the most popular ED medications are and how they work.
So, viagra and levitra are both very similar.
They both take about an hour to kick in, and they last for about 6 to 8 hours.
Cialis is a bit different. It can take up to 2 hours to take effect, but it can last for up to 36 hours.
So if you’re looking for something that you can take more or less spontaneously,
that’s relatively fast acting, then viagra or levitra is what you’re looking for.
But it you’re planning a romantic weekend, where you’re got more time to plan for it,
and you want it to last for a couple of nights, then cialis is probably what you want.
But at a hundred dollars a pop, that weekend suddenly gets a little spendy.
So what are you gonna do?
If you’re like me, you start looking for a bargain. But be careful.
Pfizer, the company that produces viagra, did a study of online websites offering viagra at a discount,
and they discovered that over 80% of these websites were selling counterfeit viagra
that contained either useless ingredients, or ingredients that were actually toxic.
So, the way I see it, you’ve got a few different options.
First, you can go to your doctor and get a prescription of one of these ED meds,
take it to a pharmacy and pay the full price for your meds.
But for a lot of us, that’s not really a very good option.
A better strategy is to get your doctor to write a prescription for the generic form of the drugs.
All of these drugs have been around long enough, that there are generic forms of the drugs available.
The generic form of viagra is called sildenafil, for levitra it's called vardenafil, and for cialis you've got tadalafil.
And the generic drugs are always going to be cheaper than the branded drugs.
There’s an online company called Roman, that bills itself as a digital health clinic for men.
You don’t need a prescription, they’ve got doctors working for them that will prescribe you the drugs.
Now, on Roman, viagra costs $34 a pill and cialis costs $44 a pill.
But sildenafil, the generic form of viagra, only costs $6 a pill.
So that’s quite a bit better than the pharmacy.
Unfortunately, at this time, they don’t offer tadalafil, the generic equivalent of cialis.
Another strategy is to try an offshore pharmacy.
You’ll still need a presription from your doctor, but anywhere outside of the US, the meds will cost a lot less.
In fact, in Great Britain, you don’t even need a prescription.
You can buy them over-the-counter.
Now, prices varies, depending of what size dose you buy and how many pills you get at a time.
So, to make sure that we’re comparing apples to apples, I’ve looked at the highest doses,
and the largest (and cheapest) amounts that you can purchase.
And I’ve priced them on a per-pill basis.
So for viagra or sildenafil, that’s a 100mg dose and 90 pills.
For cialis or tadalafil, that’s a 20mg dose and 90 pills.
Now, although I also did the research on levitra or vardenafil,
I couldn’t find very good discounts, so I’m taking that one out of the mix.
If you do decide to go the off-shore pharmacy route and get your meds from Canada,
viagra will cost you between $8 and $13 for a single, 100mg pill,
and cialis is between $13 and $17 for a 20mg pill.
A lot better than $65 and $100!
But if you decide to go with the generic brands instead, you can save even more.
Sildenafil, the generic form of viagra, will cost around a buck sixty a pill
and tadalifil, the cialis equivalent is about 2 bucks.
Now that's not bad.
But we can do even better.
There’s another online company called GoodRX,
and they offer coupons that you can give to your pharmacist for a discount.
They even have an app for your phone that will download these coupons…and the coupons are free.
Now, you can use GoodRX for any prescription, not just for ED meds.
Again, the price will vary depending of what pharmacy you use,
but here in Portland, I found sildenafil, the generic form of viagra, in the 100 mg dose, for 46 cents per pill!
46 cents! And I found tadalafil for 59 cents for a 20 mg pill.
And that’s at the same pharmacy down the street that I mentioned previously.
That’s a savings of approximately 99.3% over the normal pharmacy price.
That’s $43 for a 90 pill supply that will normally cost you $6,000.
Now, there is a way to get it even cheaper than that, but I don’t recommend it.
And that’s buying your meds from China. I’ve seen them as cheap as 2 cents per dose.
That’s means buying a hundred grams and portioning it out yourself.
At 20 grams a dose for tadalafil, that’s 5,000 doses.
Probably more than you’ll need in a lifetime.
You’ve also got a question now about purity, and some of the Chinese supplies are counterfeit…
so, buyer beware.
OK, here’s the results that I found.
Now, this search took be a few days to conduct, and the results were all over the map.
And there’s a few caveats.
So, first, I did this search in Portland…in fact, in my own zip code.
I could have done a search in other zip codes in Portland, or even in other parts of the country.
But that would have just given me much more varied results.
And the point of the this is just to show you guys the kind of results I found,
not to provide you with definitive pricing.
Next, I’m just showing the lowest prices I could find,
because that’s what this video is about and that’s what I think you guys are interested in.
There were a lot of prices that were way more expensive.
And it’s entirely possible that when you guys do your own search,
that you might find prices that are even cheaper…even in Portland.
Now, for some of the results, you’ll notice that I have NA…not applicable.
Roman doesn’t offer either levitra or vardenafil, and they don’t offer the generic form of cialis.
GoodRX only offers coupons for the generic forms and the same is true for the sources from China.
So, the clear winners are both sildenafil and tadalafil, the generic forms of viagra and cialis, from GoodRX.
Oddly enough, I couldn’t find similarly cheap prices for levitra or vardenafil, on GoodRX.
The cheapest price I could find was purchasing it off-shore, from a Canadian pharmacy.
Now, even though it’s cheaper, I didn’t pick sourcing it from China as the cheapest,
because I just can’t vouch for the quality or the purity.
But here’s the thing.
If you can regularly purchase erectile dysfunction medications in the US,
for as little as 46 cents per pill, to say nothing for China’s prices,
what in the hell are the phamaceutical companies doing charging $65 to $100 per pill?
I mean, how greedy can you get.
You know, I’ve been outraged at the costs for ED meds for a long time,
mostly because they were priced so high that I couldn’t afford them, and that pissed me off.
In doing the research for this video, I was amazed by what I found,
and couldn’t believe that I didn’t know about this much sooner.
Now, I’m sure that for a lot of you, the info in this video will come as no surprise,
but for those of you who were like me,
I hope that this will bring a ray of hope where it seemed hopeless before.
OK, so that’s the rundown on ED meds and their costs.
In spite of the greed of pharmaceutical companies,
it is possible to get meds at a price that’s absolutely affordable for almost all men.
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