Cialis and Cialis Together: Is there a difference?

[jseop109]

I went on the web site of my online supplier (Superdrug) the other day and saw the following prices, all for 8 tablets of10 mg strength:

Cialis                  £79.99
Cialis Together   £37.99
Taladafil             £46.00

I'd expect that Taladafil to be cheaper than Cialis as it's just the generic version. But why is Cialis Together cheaper than either? I can't see any difference from the online description. Are they really just the same product?

[RandomGuy99]

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One needs a prescription and one doesn't

They are the same drug though

[scutty brown]

the tadalafil is overpriced, 8x10mg should be around £35 at most
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who are by no means the cheapest

[george r]

Superdrug are not the cheapest try Dr fox tadalafil £12.70 for eight 10mg

[MysteryManNo.7]

I use Dr Fox and pay around £50 for generic Cialis (Tadalafil) 20mg 32 tablets. I then break them in two when I take one so I have 64 10mg doses. Does the trick and easily lasts me a year. Paying for brand name Viagra/Cialis all you are doing is pissing away ridiculous amounts of money for absolutely no reason.

[Steve2]

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32 Tadalafil (Cialis) 20mg £41.88

Often a discount code too. Try NEW30. NEW15. NEW20

[RandomGuy99]

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[jseop109]

Thanks chaps for the responses.

I may explore some of the cheaper options. I guess Superdrug has suited me as I can pick up in person from the local pharmacy counter, and this is very reliable and safe.

I know other providers have options to deliver to e.g. local post offices but they presumably use 3rd party delivery services, which I'm less inclined to trust. I once ordered from Lloyds online and, instead of delivering to my specified post office, Evri sent it to my home address. The packaging wasn't totally discreet either as there was a little Lloyds sticker on the outside.

Plus any saving in cost per tablet is much less than the punt I would use it for.

But it's interesting that there are two versions of Cialis, identical in all respects, but one costing double the other. I wonder whether the fact that the dearer one needs a prescription is the reason. In this case at least some of the cost is charged to the NHS, so the pharma company can get away with fixing a higher price.

[simon07]

I would imagine health boards pharmacy advisers monitor GP practice prescribing and come down on GPs not prescribing Generic Tadalafil.

Of course a patient may say they have side effects with the generic and demand Cialis.

[Steve2]

Current Menschem 30% discount code is NEW30

24 sildenafil 100mg £25

[scouting]

Current Menschem 30% discount code is NEW30

24 sildenafil 100mg £25

Thanks for that Steve. I used to order from Lloyds, this is a saving.

[Dark Vader]

Current Menschem 30% discount code is NEW30
24 sildenafil 100mg £25

Read this wrong and thought I'd been right royally ripped off on Ebay for cialis together for £32.99 then looked at their together price and realized I didn't do too bad. Used the new user code and ordered £50 worth of taladafil and sildenafil. Thanks for the info.

[GCAS9]

I would imagine health boards pharmacy advisers monitor GP practice prescribing and come down on GPs not prescribing Generic Tadalafil.

Of course a patient may say they have side effects with the generic and demand Cialis.

And such a demand will likely be refused, unless the patient can show there's an ingredient in the generic tablet which they have a bad allergy to which is absent from the branded Cialis tablet.

I suspect if the patient is adamant and "stomps their feet" then at best the GP could nudge them towards getting a private prescription and/or looking to the online pharmacies for the brand, or at worst, remove you from their surgery list, declaring that the patient-GP relationship has broken down and they're no longer able to be your GP.

[DastardlyDick]

I would imagine health boards pharmacy advisers monitor GP practice prescribing and come down on GPs not prescribing Generic Tadalafil.

GPs will prescribe under the generic name, partly so if you lose the prescription, nobody knows you're taking ED meds,but if the pharmacy has run out of that, you'll get the branded version. I get free prescriptions due to a medical condition including ED stuff.

[GCAS9]

GPs will prescribe under the generic name, partly so if you lose the prescription, nobody knows you're taking ED meds,but if the pharmacy has run out of that, you'll get the branded version.

Sigh, I just don't understand how you come to believe and state such inaccuracies as:

• In this day and age of internet and search engines, it's all of five seconds for the curious to find out what any medicine is for.
  Besides, most NHS GP prescriptions in England are electronic now, so there's not even a piece of paper to lose.
• NHS GPs prescribe generically because it keeps their costs down and is thus expected of them by the NHS.  You definitely won't get the brand on an NHS generic prescription for Tadalafil, unless that pharmacy wishes to lose money or have somehow improbably obtained the expensive branded product at the same cost as the generic; if they run out of the generic they'll just ask you to come back later or the next day when they've restocked.

[Arripotter1971]

 Read a few posts where people are cutting tablets and taking only 20 or 50mg, on the occasions I have taken them I have just popped the 100mg tablet as that is what they came as. Got me wondering now if I really need to buy a 100mg tablet as I do not always feel like I need it, only if I have done multiple punts in a week.

[scutty brown]

Read a few posts where people are cutting tablets and taking only 20 or 50mg, on the occasions I have taken them I have just popped the 100mg tablet as that is what they came as. Got me wondering now if I really need to buy a 100mg tablet as I do not always feel like I need it, only if I have done multiple punts in a week.

different people require different doses to be effective
likewise some people can't cope with higher doses because of the side effects
100mg is the maximum dose to take in a day, and also the maximum dose to take at one go (you should only take it once a day anyway).
The amount to take is quite simply - whatever works for you as long as you don't overdose.
You'll notice that there's little difference in price between 25/50/100mg tablets which makes the 100mg more cost-effective in terms of drug content. No reason at all why you can't cut them in half with a sharp stiff blade
try it and see

[daviemac]

No reason at all why you can't cut them in half with a sharp stiff blade try it and see.

You can buy a pill cutter that cuts them in half for £3.00 or pay £12.00 for one that quarters them as well.