Man Suffers 5 Days Erection After Mistakenly Taking 35 Doses of Viagra

A drunk man identified as Daniel Medforth, 36, of Withernsea, East Yorks, swallowed an overdose of sex enhancement drug Viagra and ended up with an erection that lasted for whole five days with pain.

Medforth, a plasterer by trade and a married father of two, told U.K. tabloid The Sun that he took 35 doses of Viagra in an hour after drinking with his friends for two days.

“My mate brought them downstairs, I just said I’d take one for a laugh and one led to two to three, et cetera,” Medforth told The Daily Beast.

But after pill number 35, laughter gave way to concern. After his vision turned green—a Viagra side effect known as cyanopsia—and he experienced what he described to The Sun as “a massive erection that would not go away,” Medforth went home to his wife, who promptly redirected him to the hospital where he belonged. And there he stayed there for the next 36 hours—one hour for every year of his life that he almost threw away.

He told The Daily Beast that his wife was “a little mad” at him, which, one would hope, is an understatement.

After his discharge, Medforth was put on bed rest but his penis refused to rest with him. His total erection time? Five days.

Overdosing on Viagra can cause seizures, hallucinations, nerve atrophy, unconsciousness, fainting spells, painful engorgement of veins, brain haemorrhages, or even death.