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Medications for erectile dysfunction (ED) have become so widely available through telehealth, that there’s no longer any reason to avoid seeking help. The modern treatment experience is streamlined and discreet, with fast online prescription access culminating in a shipment of meds that arrives right to your door.
The treatments themselves have evolved tremendously in recent years, as well, with the original little blue pill (Viagra) giving way to chewable tablets, lozenges, and even gummies. Roman’s Daily Rise Gummies deliver tadalafil, the generic form of Cialis, in a convenient daily gummy format.
In this review, we’ll break down everything you need to know about these gummy meds, from taste and efficacy to cost, so you can decide if they’re potentially right for you.
Roman’s Daily Rise Gummies taste better than any other chewable or dissolvable ED medication our editorial team has tried, which is critical for a product you’ll take every day. The 7mg dose is fixed, and it’s a little higher than the 2.5mg and 5mg doses typically seen in daily tadalafil, though it’s still lower than the tadalafil doses in novel forms from competitors. Still, if you experience side effects, there’s no way to titrate downward short of biting the gummies in half. And Daily Rise Gummies aren’t cheap; opting for traditional tadalafil tablets, or even certain chewables from competitors, is going to be less expensive.
At Innerbody Research, we carefully examine every product and service we review, including Roman’s Daily Rise Gummies. We’ve spent more than a decade scrutinizing the ED medication landscape, fully immersed in the scientific literature behind erectile health and the various drugs intended to preserve and restore it.
For this review alone, we dedicated more than 100 hours to reviewing the latest literature looking at tadalafil and chewable ED medication delivery. Additionally, like all health-related content on this website, this guide was thoroughly vetted by one or more members of our Medical Review Board for accuracy and will continue to be monitored for updates by our editorial team.
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In evaluating Daily Rise Gummies, we applied the same set of standards we’ve used to examine the dozens of ED telehealth companies and products we’ve reviewed over the years. Specifically, we looked at five criteria we believe will matter most to men interested in trying them: effectiveness, safety, cost, taste, and convenience.
Our ratings here culminated in the overall rating we provided above, so let’s dive more deeply into each criterion to see how Daily Rise performs under a microscope.
Tadalafil is the main ingredient in Daily Rise Gummies, and numerous studies show that it’s effective as a daily medication to treat ED.1 Taken every day, typically at doses of 2.5mg or 5mg, tadalafil reliably allows men to achieve erections hard enough for penetrative sex.2 And, as a daily medication with a window of efficacy up to 36 hours, it’s more or less effective on command once that initial dose is active in your system.
Daily Rise delivers 7mg in each of its gummies, which ought to be plenty for most men who would respond well to 2.5mg or 5mg in a tablet. That makes Daily Rise reliably effective for most men. And the gummy format may provide better bioavailability than traditional tablets, with a bioequivalence study in vitamin D significantly favoring gummies over tablets and capsules for maximum blood concentration.3
As-needed tadalafil in pill form is also sometimes prescribed at doses as low as 5mg, so the 7mg in Daily Rise might even be enough for some men to take on an as-needed basis, instead.2 And research indicates a phenomenon called linear pharmacokinetics for tadalafil, which is a fancy way of saying that higher doses tend to yield improved outcomes.4 So, that 7mg should also be more effective than 5mg on a daily basis.
With that in mind, men interested in taking tadalafil on an as-needed basis could invest in Daily Rise Gummies and only take them in the vicinity of intercourse. They could also theoretically double their dose and take two gummies if using them as needed, but that shouldn’t be done without first consulting your doctor.
On the safety front, Daily Rise presents a kind of mixed bag. On the one hand, Roman provides a thorough and careful medical intake and a LegalScript-certified prescription process, ensuring the company provides you with well-considered care and safely manufactured medications. On the other hand, its selected dose for its Daily Rise Gummies is higher than you typically see in daily tadalafil.
While it’s not uncommon for tadalafil to be prescribed at 10mg or even 20mg on an as-needed basis, daily prescriptions are more often given for 2.5mg or 5mg, since you’ll be taking them every day.2 Higher doses than that correlate to an increased risk of side effects like headache, dyspepsia, nasopharyngitis, or muscle pain.5 And Daily Rise is only available at a daily dose of 7mg.
That relatively high and inflexible daily dose might have cost Roman more points on the safety side if we weren’t actively comparing it to competitors offering similar daily treatments. BlueChew, for example, offers a daily chewable tadalafil tablet at a fixed dose of 9mg, while Hims tadalafil Hard Mints come in 8.5mg or 11.2mg doses — all more likely to cause side effects than Roman’s 7mg dose.
In a head-to-head comparison with BlueChew, Roman’s monthly subscription cost for its Daily Rise Gummies edges out BlueChew’s chewable tadalafil. But, if you compare those two companies’ lowest possible cost per month — achieved by spending more up front on a longer quarterly billing cycle — BlueChew becomes the better deal.
And Hims Hard Mints are less expensive than either BlueChew or Roman’s alternatives, even while providing higher doses per day.
Here’s a quick look at how these companies compare for cost:
| Monthly subscription $ | Quarterly subscription $ | Quarterly effective $ per month | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Daily Rise Gummies | $89 | $207 | $69 |
| Hims Hard Mints | $79 | $147 | $49 |
| BlueChew Daily Tad | $100 | $200 | $67 |
Hims also offers a 5-month billing cycle for $195, which brings your effective monthly cost down to just $39, making it the clear winner for cost when considering novel forms of daily tadalafil.
Taste is Roman’s saving grace here. We’ve tasted every kind of ED medication on the market, and Daily Rise Gummies, while imperfect, are the tastiest. BlueChew has too strong a medicinal taste, while the mint and medicine flavors in Hims Hard Mints clash a bit too much. The tang of tropical fruit in Daily Rise Gummies effectively masks most of the medicinal flavor of the tadalafil while being refreshing in a way its competitors are not.
The gummies themselves also have a favorable consistency. We’ve tried various gummy candies from numerous brands over the years, and they run the gamut from soft and grainy to stiff and sticky. Daily Rise Gummies are stiff enough to enjoy the bite without being too sticky that they’d linger in your teeth for very long.
The result is a product you can enjoy taking without really thinking about it. However, we wish that Roman would have opted for a different sweetener, even at the expense of taste. Currently, Daily Rise Gummies are sweetened with sucralose, which tastes somewhat artificial to some and adds a pleasant sweetness on the palates of others. Either way, sucralose, while generally regarded as safe by regulatory agencies, has been linked with some health issues, including disturbances in gut microbiota.17
As a category, novel forms of daily tadalafil hold something of a convenience contradiction. The added convenience of a gummy or a chewable tablet reaches its peak when you need to take them more suddenly — a characteristic more applicable to as-needed ED meds. If you were out on a date and things were headed in an intimate direction, popping a quick mint to ensure the reliability of your performance is extremely convenient.
But does that degree of convenience even matter in the few minutes after you brush your teeth in the morning? Or would a less expensive tablet with a more flexible dose be just as easy to incorporate into your regimen? Ultimately, that’s up to you to decide, and Daily Rise Gummies are undeniably convenient as far as such novel ED medication formats go.
Where Roman earns a high rating for convenience here also comes from the overall customer experience. The company has transparent pricing that others often lack (looking at you, Hims), the prescribing process is streamlined and comprehensive, and shipments are among the fastest we’ve experienced from ED telehealth companies.

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Daily Rise Gummies are a once-daily tadalafil product from Roman, a telemedical company offering a wide range of products and services for things like sexual health, weight loss, and skin care. The gummies are like squishy little candies, and they deliver an effective dose of tadalafil in the treatment of erectile dysfunction.
Prescriptions for Daily Rise Gummies are only available online through Roman’s telehealth platform, where you fill out an intake questionnaire, interface with a medical professional, and receive a prescription all in one place. The company also ships your medication to you directly in discreet packaging.
Daily Rise Gummies are not intended to be taken as needed, though you may want to ask your consulting physician about whether the 7mg dose could be effective for you on an as-needed basis. Some men respond to as-needed tadalafil doses as low as 5mg, so you may be able to take Daily Rise Gummies on an as-needed basis.
Roman, also known as Ro, has a somewhat mixed reputation online. It holds a B grade from the Better Business Bureau, where customer reviews give it a 1.13-star rating out of a possible five stars from a little over 200 reviews. The picture on Trustpilot is a bit better, with just over 3,000 reviews culminating in a 3.7-star rating out of five.
Most of the negative reviews on either site involve frustration with Roman’s pricing system, often referencing a membership fee, which leads us to believe that the program in question is Ro’s Body Membership. That program grants access to things like GLP-1 receptor agonists (e.g., Ozempic or Zepbound), and involves both a monthly membership cost and a cost for medications. In Ro’s defense, it’s a setup we often see in the GLP-1 space, albeit one we wish were a little more clearly defined across the various companies selling goods in it.
To be clear, there is no membership associated with Roman’s ED treatments. You’ll only ever pay for the cost of the medication. Membership fees only apply to Roman’s weight loss program.
Some other negative reviews involve shipping issues and problems with cancellations, though we have not had any experiences that corroborate these. In one instance where a medication was shipped to a tester’s previous address, despite that tester having updated the address in the system before ordering, Ro quickly sent a correction shipment to the right address that arrived in under 48 hours.
Daily Rise Gummies work thanks to a single drug contained in each dose called tadalafil. Tadalafil is the generic form of Cialis, a popular ED drug that differentiates itself from sildenafil (generic for Viagra) thanks to its longer duration of action. Whereas sildenafil lasts for about six hours after you take it, tadalafil can last for up to 36 hours.6 2
Of course, those timetables are examples of as-needed use. Another differentiator between sildenafil and tadalafil is that you can take a lower dose of tadalafil daily and be ready for intercourse whenever the moment strikes. That means there’s no waiting for the medication to kick in or concern that you might not have it nearby when you need it.
Tadalafil is part of a class of drugs called phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) inhibitors.7 And PDE5 plays a pretty simple role in erectile health. Essentially, PDE5 manages the concentration of a cellular messenger in your blood called cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP). When cGMP builds up, say, in response to erotic stimuli, blood vessels in and around the penis relax, allowing chambers of the penis to fill with blood and become engorged.8 That’s an erection in a nutshell.
Insider Tip: PDE5 inhibitors don’t automatically give you an erection. That’s a misconception fueled by popular media. Instead, they create conditions in the body much more favorable to the occurrence of a healthy erection in response to stimuli. If there’s nothing there to arouse you, you won’t spontaneously get an erection.
PDE5’s job is to make sure that erection eventually goes away, typically after climax. But an imbalance in cGMP and PDE5 or signaling issues that cause PDE5 to release en masse prematurely can kill an erection either before it ever begins or right in the middle of intercourse.8 As their name implies, PDE5 inhibitors temporarily block this release, allowing cGMP to build up and creating an environment for an erection to occur in response to appropriate stimuli.
When you take Daily Rise Gummies every day, they consistently correct for any issues in that balance between cGMP and PDE5, so you’re always ready to respond to stimuli when they occur, and an erection will last until after climax.
Daily Rise Gummies are a viable choice for any man interested in treating his ED with daily tadalafil but hoping for something a little more enjoyable than popping a pill each morning. Tadalafil in pill form is very small, but even small tablets can cause trouble for some men with issues swallowing pills. Gummies can be a solution for these men, as well.
Daily Rise’s 7mg dose is a rather specific one for the tadalafil market, but men who find that 10mg works better for them than 5mg (much more common doses) might be interested in Daily Rise Gummies as a way to mitigate side effect risk by taking something stronger than 5mg but not quite as strong as 10mg. Research indicates that increasing a tadalafil dose improves outcomes in a linear fashion, so that a gradual upgrade might be all you need.4
Of course, there’s a flip side to that coin as well. Any men for whom 7mg is either too much or too little would have to look elsewhere, as Daily Rise Gummies are only available in that one dose. We should also note here that Daily Rise Gummies are, in most cases, more expensive than just about every alternative on the market, including BlueChew’s daily tadalafil chews and Hims Hard Mints.
Finally, it’s important to understand that ED meds aren’t a cure for ED, even if they effectively mitigate your symptoms. If you stopped taking them, there’s a high likelihood that your ED symptoms would return.9 That’s because ED is a complex physiological — and often psychological — issue that requires careful medical evaluation. Improving cardiovascular health or mental health may be a better option for you long-term, even if you choose to use medications in the short term to allow for a happy sex life.
For the most part, Daily Rise Gummies are very safe. That’s both because there’s a thorough medical intake involved before you can get a prescription and because the drugs in question have been studied so extensively. That extensive study means that nearly any potential side effect that could occur has a known mechanism and a potential treatment, whether that means titrating your dose, switching to another ED medication, or adding a complementary therapy to the picture.5
Decades of study have also codified a litany of potential contraindications for tadalafil and other PDE5 inhibitors. That makes it more likely that your consulting physician can identify a drug or condition that makes you unsuitable for treatment long before you’d ever take it and experience an adverse reaction.
Here’s a look at some of these potential side effects that have been established in the literature:
One of the more common side effects associated with tadalafil and affecting nearly 10% of participants in the research is back pain and myalgia.5 Often, PDE5 inhibitors inhibit other phosphodiesterase enzymes in addition to PDE5. Sildenafil, for example, has been shown to inhibit PDE6, resulting in vision disturbances as a common side effect that you don’t get from tadalafil.10 But a thorough investigation into tadalafil’s back pain side effect showed that its inhibition of PDE11 — once thought to be at the center of tadalafil’s back pain issue — was too minimal to be causative.11
Follow-up investigations of back pain therapies revealed that a simple three-day regimen of add-on medications was enough to relieve tadalafil-associated back pain and prevent its recurrence.12
While headache is a relatively common medication side effect, it can be especially pronounced in PDE5 inhibitors, affecting more than 15% of users.5 In fact, some migraine research has turned to PDE5 inhibitors as an instigator to cause migraines in clinical settings.13 Unfortunately, the research picture for men with migraine is a little muddy, though, as a recent study in men with migraine without aura saw PDE5 inhibitors cause headaches but not migraines.14
Ultimately, headache is a side effect best treated with titration and NSAIDs, or, eventually, trying a different PDE5 inhibitor.
Dyspepsia encompasses things like chest pain, heartburn, and nausea, and it occurs in nearly 12% of tadalafil users.5 While the mechanisms haven’t been established conclusively, a systematic review of studies in patients with esophageal motility disorders found that PDE5 inhibitors could alleviate their symptoms by, among other things, reducing the resting pressure of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES, the muscle that closes off your esophagus from your stomach).15
That’s good news if you have hypertensive LES that makes it difficult to swallow or pass food into your stomach. However, in healthy individuals, a relaxation of the LES could result in dyspepsia. Currently, treatment would involve acute medications and some lifestyle changes to manage acidity, but men with a significant negative dyspeptic reaction may need to find alternatives to PDE5 inhibitors for ED treatment.
Nasopharyngitis, or a swelling of the nasal passages, is essentially just nasal congestion. It appears in a little over 10% of users, but it’s typically manageable with over-the-counter interventions.5
Roman employs a pretty price structure for its Daily Rise Gummies. You can’t make one-time purchases, so you’re left subscribing at either one-month or three-month intervals. The three-month interval saves you the most money, and all orders ship for free. BlueChew and Hims, by comparison, charge the same $5 fee per shipment, though Hims offers an extended 5-month shipping frequency, resulting in some savings over time.
Here’s what it would cost to use either Daily Rise subscription frequency over the course of a year:
| Price | Monthly cost | Yearly cost | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly subscription | $89 | $89 | $1,068 |
| Quarterly subscription | $207 | $69 | $828 |
Roman has no money-back guarantee and won’t accept returns of any merchandise, though the company does claim that it can make amends for certain errors. In our experience, Roman has been a faithful service provider, often looking for low-cost, expedient solutions to any problems that might arise with an order.
With the incredible abundance of ED treatment options out there, it’s imperative to examine all of your options before making a decision about where to start. Daily Rise Gummies might be the perfect fit for you, but if they aren’t, you’ll still have plenty of options to explore.
We dive deep into these options in our guide to the best ED treatments, but let’s take a moment here to go over some highlights that could get you moving in the right direction:
We’ve discussed at length throughout this piece that there are a couple of viable options for men determined to take their daily tadalafil in a format other than traditional tablets. The two most prominent on the market are BlueChew and Hims, each of which offer some unique advantages over Roman.
In BlueChew’s case, a quarterly subscription costs a hair less than Roman, and even though we prefer the flavor of Daily Rise Gummies, some men might like BlueChew’s berry flavor a bit better. BlueChew also offers a slightly stronger 9mg dose. In Hims’ case, prices are much lower, and you get two dose options: 8.5mg and 11.2mg.
If you want dose flexibility that allows you to start treatment at the lowest available dose and titrate up until you see benefits (the safest way to approach a new medication), tablets are the way to go. Typical tadalafil tablet prescriptions start at just 2.5mg/day, less than half the fixed 7mg dose from Roman.
Tablets also have the advantage of being the least expensive way to get your hands on daily tadalafil, with subscriptions from Hims and a couple of other companies delivering tadalafil for just over $1 per day.
Whether the daily approach isn’t for you, or you experience some side effects with tadalafil that might not be as pronounced with other PDE5 inhibitors, reaching for something like sildenafil or vardenafil (generic for Levitra) could be the right move. Daily tadalafil tends to offer the lowest cost per dose, but if you aren’t having sex more than a few times per month, you could save money with an as-needed medication.
While psychological and physiological aspects of an ED diagnosis are often intertwined, research suggests that up to 40% of ED cases are psychogenic in origin, meaning that they began with mental health.16 Seeking mental health treatment in these cases may be enough to reverse your ED, and you can rely on medications to help maintain your sex life while you work on more complex underlying mental health concerns.
Several companies, including Roman, Hims, BlueChew, and Rugiet, have seen fit to combine two or more ED medications into a single therapy, often delivered in some kind of novel format, like a chewable tablet or dissolvable lozenge. These typically aren’t the best places for men new to ED meds to start, as increasing the number of medications in your regimen could lead to increased side effect risk.
Roman’s version of a combination therapy is called Ro Sparks, and it puts 22mg of tadalafil and 55mg of sildenafil in a single dissolving lozenge. Those are some relatively strong doses, though Sparks is intended for as-needed use only, as are most combination therapies. Sparks is also one of the most expensive combination therapies on the market, with only Rugiet outpacing it for price.
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