{"id":15546,"date":"2015-02-12T22:12:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T05:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessrx.com\/blog\/?p=15546"},"modified":"2025-01-08T19:57:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-08T12:57:47","slug":"cialis-for-daily-use-what-you-need-to-know-m0122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edrugstore.com\/blog\/erectile-dysfunction\/cialis-for-daily-use-what-you-need-to-know-m0122\/","title":{"rendered":"Cialis for Daily Use: What You Need to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

D<\/span>aily Cialis is the only erectile dysfunction drug of its kind, promising men who take it faithfully every day that they will be ready for sex whenever the time is right. The half life of tadalafil, Cialis’s active ingredient, is far longer than that of any other oral ED drug.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Cialis is the most-prescribed of the drugs available in the United States for treatment of erectile dysfunction. Having two distinct formulations — one for daily use and a higher-dose version for use as needed — Cialis has an obvious sales advantage over its competitors, all of which offer only as-needed versions of their ED medications.<\/p>\n

Although well off their all-time highs, Cialis sales in the United States reached nearly $1.6 billion in 2017, according to FiercePharma.com<\/a>. By contrast, Viagra’s U.S. sales were less than half of those of Cialis, coming in at a total of $789 million. Coming in a distant third were sales of Levitra, Bayer Healthcare’s entry in the ED pharmaceuticals market.<\/p>\n

Though all three of these drugs belong to a class of drugs known as PDE-5 inhibitors, each is slightly different, and Cialis is perhaps the most distinctive. Cialis has a much longer half-life than Viagra<\/a> and Levitra, and Eli Lilly, manufacturer of Cialis, has capitalized on this property for years. Because the effects of Cialis can last for up to 36 hours, the drug was given the nickname \u201cthe weekend pill,\u201d since a man could theoretically take one on Friday night and still experience the effects on Sunday. This, the company said, could allow more spontaneity than Viagra or Levitra<\/a>, which wear off within a few hours.<\/p>\n

Several years ago, Cialis started marketing the drug in a daily, low-dose therapy regimen. Cialis for daily use<\/a> requires that a man take a low dose (5 mg) of the drug every day, preferably at the same time, to experience lasting relief from ED.<\/p>\n

Lofty Claims for Daily Cialis<\/h3>\n

A study published in 2013 in the Journal of Sexual Medicine<\/em> found that men who didn\u2019t respond well to Cialis as an on-demand drug may experience better results<\/a> when taking Cialis for daily use. Around 40% of study participants who took a low dose of Cialis every day managed to achieve normal erectile functioning even if using Cialis on an as-needed basis hadn\u2019t worked, according to Dr. Edward Kim of the University of Tennessee Medical Center, who was the lead researcher.<\/p>\n

The 623 men in the study, with a mean age of 58, had experienced no response when using Cialis on an as-needed basis over the course of one month. Two double-blind, randomized, control trials were conducted on three groups of men over 12 weeks:<\/p>\n