Excerpt from Chapter 2
Dayo lost his father. His father died at the age of sixty-seven. He probably would have lived longer than he did if he took heed to his doctor’s advice. He was hypertensive and was placed on antihypertensives by his doctor; Dr Charles. After trying different antihypertensive drugs to control Mr Agbaje’s blood pressure, Dr Charles finally placed him on alpha methyldopa because it was the only antihypertensive drug that could control it.
Mr Agbaje paid Dr Charles a visit after a month of using the drug. He complained that he was finding it increasingly difficult to have an erection and that he suspects that it was as a result of a side effect of the antihypertensive drug that he was recently placed on. The doctor explained to him that it was indeed as a result of the side effect of alpha methyldopa.