Horny Goat Weed - November 01, 2010
Reviewer: B Patenaude, Canada
Interestingly enough I came across this product quite by accident when I was originally prescribed (a proprietary pharmaceutical) as a performance enhancer by one of my doctors who said to take it “If I needed it”.
Some of you may suffer periodically with ED as a result of taking blood pressure control medication typically used to control prostate enlargement.
To understand why I wanted to write about my experience with “Horny Goat Weed” you need to know that I have suffered from lower back pain for years. The kind that starts when you get out of bed in the morning and gets much worse if you decide to wash the car, do some gardening or lift something heavy. Trimming 20 feet of cedar hedge meant 2 to 3 days of a pharmaceutical drug and dragging myself around the house. I tried exercise, pills, acupuncture, the chiropractor and even some very expensive liquid colon supplements. All of them gave me some temporary relief but nothing like my “Horny Goat Weed” experience.
Thinking that “Horny Goat Weed” was going to do the trick and resolve my periodic ED symptoms, I bought one bottle and began following the dosage instructions. I don’t know what I was really expecting but I got an even bigger surprise because it appeared to relieve a totally different medical condition than any literature (I had read) ever mentioned. Believe it or not, my annoying achy lower back pain disappeared, totally!
I’m actually not the one who noticed a change; it was my wife. About 5 days after taking my first dose of “Horny Goat Weed” I sprang out of bed one Saturday morning ready to face a new day. I didn’t feel any pain and never even thought about it proceeding to put on summer clothes, a short stop in the bathroom and than heading off to the kitchen to make coffee. I walked down the stairs --walked, not hanging on to the railing and not using the same leg repeatedly limping down those stairs.
Feeling “pain-free” I swam with the family, washed the car and are you ready? Played singles tennis with my son. Wow!
I woke up Sunday fearing the worst, however, nothing absolutely nothing; “pain-free” again. The 2 weeks that followed were spectacular. I was totally “pain-free” and happy that everything got better as you can imagine.
This state of utopia lasted until the “Horny Goat Weed” bottle was empty. Two days later the pain I had forgotten about was back. I immediately re-ordered a bottle (a bottle lasts about 15 days) and I took it that night before bed.
Two days later I was in heaven again, totally “pain-free”.
I would be lying if I didn’t say that every once in a awhile I do feel a little pain as a result of feeling too good and doing too much but believe me, the next morning everything’s repaired and I’m ready to go again.
At first I was disappointed that I wasn’t experiencing the solution to my periodic ED symptoms, you see, it doesn’t work that way for me but to live each day “PAIN-FREE” and happy is a real miracle come true.
I take “Horny Goat Weed” daily and without side effects or other problems despite the other chemical pills I need to take mentioned above. I take the concentrated liquid NOT the capsules; I find they don’t work nearly as well as the liquid.
To live this happily and pain-free needless to say, I will continue to purchase and consume “Horny Goat Weed”.
Your very satisfied customer
Bob
(editor's note - We were unaware of any anti-inflammatory effect with Horny Goat Weed but did find this reference suggesting there is a correlation: Liu MH, et al. Icariin protects murine chondrocytes from lipopolysaccharide-induced inflammatory responses and extracellular matrix degradation. Nutrition Research. 2010;30(1):57-65.)
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