Viagra Connect Melts Pack of 4

What are Viagra Connect Melts?

Viagra Connect Melts 50mg is an orodispersible erectile dysfunction treatment for men aged 18 and over, helping you achieve and maintain an erection. Each thin orodispersible film contains 50mg of sildenafil and dissolves directly on the tongue, making it a discreet alternative to traditional tablets that can be taken with or without water. Viagra Connect Melts usually start to work within 30–60 minutes and may be taken up to four hours before sexual activity.

Viagra Connect Melts are a treatment for men aged 18 years and older with erectile dysfunction. Erectile dysfunction, also known as impotence, is an inability to achieve or maintain an erection.

How Do Viagra Connect Melts Work?

Viagra Connect Melts contain the active substance sildenafil, which belongs to a group of medicines called phosphodiesterase type 5 (PDE5) inhibitors. They work by relaxing the blood vessels in your penis, allowing blood to flow into your penis when you get sexually aroused, causing an erection. Viagra Connect Melts will only help you to get an erection if you are sexually excited (stimulated).

Is Viagra Connect Safe?

Viagra Connect melts are licensed for over-the-counter sale in the UK as a pharmacy medication. The active ingredient in Viagra Connect melts, sildenafil, has been on the market for over 20 years since 1996 in Viagra. It has a proven safety record.

Viagra Connect vs Sildenafil?

Sildenafil is the active ingredient in both Viagra, Viagra Connect and Viagra Connect Melts, but is also available as a non-branded generic product. The unbranded version of the medicine is clinically equivalent to the branded medicines.

All generic medicines undergo the same stringent tests as branded medicines to prove they are medically equivalent to the branded versions. Without this, they do not get approved to go to market. They have the same active ingredient, strength, quality and safety as their branded versions.

Ingredients:

The active ingredient is 50 mg of sildenafil. The other ingredients are hydroxypropylcellulose (E463), macrogol, crospovidone (E1202), povidone (E1201), sucralose (E955), macrogol poly(vinyl alcohol) grafted copolymer, levomenthol, hypromellose (E464), titanium dioxide (E171), ferric oxide red (E172). 

What are Orodispersible films?

Orodispersible films are thin, dissolvable strips of medicine that are placed on the tongue. They break down and release the active ingredient, in this case sildenafil. Unlike traditional tablets, they do not need to be swallowed with water, making them a convenient option for taking medication. Viagra Connect Melts contains orodispersible sildenafil in an easy-to-use film format, designed to dissolve in the mouth before the medicine is absorbed.

For those looking for an alternative, Viagra Connect Tablets offer the same sildenafil treatment in a convenient tablet format to help with erectile dysfunction.

How do I use Viagra Connect Melts?

Always read the information provided on the box and/or leaflet.

1. Take 1 orodispersible film approximately one hour before sexual activity
2. Peel open the pouch with dry hands. Do not cut open
3. Place on tongue with a dry finger
4. Allow to disintegrate in mouth with or without water 
5. Allow to disintegrate in mouth with or without water

Take the film on an empty stomach. Do not take more than 1 film a day.

Do not use Viagra Connect Melts if you take:

• Nitrate medicines: Do not take Viagra Connect Melts if you are taking nitrate medicines (such as glyceryl trinitrate, isosorbide mononitrate, isosorbide dinitrate) against chest pain (angina pectoris) or heart failure or “poppers” as recreational drugs (nitric oxide donors (such as amylnitrite), nicorandil or sodium nitroprusside). This is because these substances could lead to a dangerous fall in blood pressure if taken together with Viagra Connect Melts.
• Riociguat: Do not take Viagra Connect Melts if you are taking a medicine called riociguat (or other medicines of a group called guanylate cyclase stimulators). Riociguat is used to treat high blood pressure in the lungs and can lead to a dangerous fall in blood pressure if taken together with Viagra Connect Melts.
•  Medicines to treat HIV infections: Ritonavir is a medicine used to treat HIV infections. Do not take Viagra Connect Melts if you are taking ritonavir since this combination can lead to a dangerous fall in blood pressure.
   

If you have any severe side effects, stop use immediately and seek medical assistance as soon as possible.

Like all medicines, this medicine can cause side effects, although not everybody gets them. These side effects are usually mild to moderate and of a short duration.

Seek medical attention immediately if you experience any of the following serious side effects:

• Chest pains: this occurs uncommonly. If this occurs before, during or after sexual activity: Get in a semi-sitting position and try to relax. Do NOT use nitrates to treat your chest pain.
• A prolonged and sometimes painful erection lasting longer than 4 hours: this occurs rarely.
• A sudden decrease or loss of vision: this occurs rarely.
• An allergic reaction: this occurs uncommonly. Symptoms include sudden wheeziness, difficulty breathing or dizziness, swelling of the eyelids, face, lips or throat.
• Serious skin reactions such as Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (SJS) and Toxic Epidermal Syndrome (TEN): this occurs rarely. Symptoms may include severe peeling and swelling of the skin, blistering of the mouth, genitals and around the eyes and fever.
• Seizures or fits: this occurs rarely.

Other side effects

Very common (may affect more than 1 in 10 people):

• headache

Common (may affect up to 1 in 10 people):

• nausea, indigestion, stuffy nose, dizziness
• facial flushing, hot flush (a sudden feeling of heat in your upper body)
• colour tinge to vision, blurred vision, visual disturbance

Uncommon (may affect up to 1 in 100 people):

• vomiting, upper abdominal pain, acid reflux (including heartburn)
• skin rash, pain in the arms or legs, nosebleed, feeling hot, feeling tired (fatigue)
• eye irritation, bloodshot eyes /red eyes, eye pain, seeing flashes of light, visual brightness, light sensitivity, watery eyes
• pounding heartbeat, rapid heartbeat
• high blood pressure
• low blood pressure (typical signs are dizziness, fainting, blurred vision, nausea and tiredness)
• muscle pain, feeling sleepy, reduced sense of touch, vertigo, ringing in the ears
• dry mouth, blocked or stuffy sinuses, inflammation of the lining of the nose (can be experienced as runny nose, sneezing and stuffy nose)
• presence of blood in urine

Rare (may affect up to 1 in 1,000 people):

• fainting, dry nose, swelling of the inside of the nose, feeling irritable and sudden decrease or loss of hearing
• sudden unexpected death caused by loss of heart function (sudden cardiac arrest), stroke, heart attack, chest pains (angina), irregular heartbeat, temporary decreased blood flow to parts of the brain
• feeling of tightening of the throat, numb mouth
• bleeding at the back of the eye, double vision, reduced sharpness of vision, abnormal sensation in the eye, swelling of the eye or eyelid, small particles or spots in your vision, seeing halos around lights, dilation of the pupil of the eye, discolouration of the white of the eye
• penile bleeding, presence of blood in semen
   

Reporting of side effects

If you get any side effects, talk to your doctor or pharmacist. This includes any possible side effects not listed in the above description and patient information leaflet. You can also report side effects directly via the Yellow Card Scheme at: www.mhra.gov.uk/yellowcard or search for “MHRA yellowcard” in the Google Play or Apple App Store. By reporting side effects you can help provide more information on the safety of this medicine.