Cialis® (branded tadalafil)
The original tadalafil brand — the long-window ED tablet with an effect window of up to 36 hours, in the manufacturer’s own pack. Supplied only after our prescribing pharmacist reviews your confidential online consultation, and always alongside the honest option: generic tadalafil from £8.95.
Start your free consultation →Free consultation · pay only if approved · plain, unmarked packaging
Choose your strength — the pharmacist confirms it
Tap a strength to see it. Everyone new to tadalafil normally starts at 10 mg; if 10 mg isn’t effective enough, the pharmacist can move you to 20 mg. Your pharmacist confirms the right strength at review — nothing is dispensed automatically.
Cialis® tablets
Branded tadalafil · film-coated tablets · taken as needed, max one dose in 24 hours
Standard starting dose: 10 mg. If 10 mg isn’t effective enough, the pharmacist can move you to 20 mg — that’s normal practice.
One-off or an ongoing 4-weekly supply — choose from 4 to 32 tablets at checkout (never more than one dose in 24 hours). Every supply is reviewed by our pharmacist first.
Start consultation — 10 mg →Free · about 5 minutes · no video call · pay only if the pharmacist confirms it’s right for you
Never take Cialis® (tadalafil) with nitrates (e.g. GTN spray, isosorbide), nicorandil or ‘poppers’. The combination can cause a life-threatening drop in blood pressure. Our consultation screens for this — and if it applies to you, your GP or cardiologist is the right route for ED treatment. Because tadalafil stays in the body longer, at least 48 hours must pass after a dose before nitrates can be given safely in an emergency — always tell any treating clinician when you last took it.
Cialis® and generic tadalafil — the same medicine, two prices
Before any supply we tell every patient the plain truth, because the clinical framework we supply under requires it — and because it’s the honest thing to do: generic tadalafil contains exactly the same active ingredient, at the same strengths, made to the same MHRA standards. The clinical effect — including the up-to-36-hour window — is equivalent. The difference is the name on the pack — and the price.
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Cialis® — the original brand
from £21.96 · 4 tablets (10 mg)
The manufacturer’s own branded pack. Some men simply prefer the original — that’s a perfectly valid choice, and the pharmacist review is identical either way.
Same active ingredient
Generic tadalafil
from £8.95 · 4 tablets (10 mg)
The same tadalafil, therapeutically equivalent, at a fraction of the price — the same 36-hour window without the brand premium.
See generic tadalafil →How Cialis® works — and how to take it
How it works
When to take it
Getting the dose right
What to expect
Side effects and who should avoid it
Factual safety information from the licensed product information — the consultation checks every exclusion, and the pharmacist explains anything that applies to you. It applies equally to Cialis® and generic tadalafil — they’re the same active ingredient.
Common, usually mild
- Headache and indigestion (the most common)
- Back pain and muscle aches — characteristic of tadalafil, typically appearing 12–24 hours after a dose and settling within 48 hours
- Blocked nose, facial flushing, feeling dizzy
Stop and seek urgent help if
- Chest pain during or after sex
- An erection lasting more than 4 hours (priapism)
- Sudden loss or reduction of vision or hearing
- Signs of a serious allergic reaction
Not suitable with: nitrates/nicorandil/poppers (never), riociguat, HIV protease inhibitors, doxazosin (an alpha-blocker — not recommended with tadalafil), severe liver disease, very low or uncontrolled high blood pressure, a heart attack or stroke in the last 6 months, unstable angina, severe heart failure, certain eye conditions (NAION, retinitis pigmentosa), or conditions predisposing to priapism. Caution and lower doses with other alpha-blockers, some antifungals and antibiotics, grapefruit juice, and liver or kidney problems — the consultation covers each of these, and the pharmacist makes the decision. Report side effects via the MHRA Yellow Card scheme (yellowcard.mhra.gov.uk).
From question to discreet delivery
Answer online
A confidential 5-minute questionnaire built on the official clinical criteria — no video call needed.
Pharmacist reviews
Our prescribing pharmacists personally review your answers, usually within one working day, and confirm the right strength.
Discreet supply
Collect in store, or plain unmarked tracked delivery. Payment only once the pharmacist has approved.
Ongoing support
Dose review if it’s not working well, side-effect advice, and a GP referral whenever that’s the safer route.
Cialis®, answered plainly
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Free consultation · No video call · A personal decision from our pharmacists
Start your free consultation →Important. Cialis® (tadalafil) 10 mg and 20 mg is a prescription-only medicine supplied under a Patient Group Direction after a structured clinical check. Our prescribing pharmacists personally review every consultation and make the final decision — nothing is approved automatically, and where your GP is more appropriate we will say so. This page is factual service information, not a recommendation to use any medicine. We always make patients aware that generic tadalafil — the same active ingredient — is also available. Never combine tadalafil with nitrates, nicorandil or ‘poppers’; avoid grapefruit juice; it gives no protection against sexually transmitted infections.