Seven Week Erection: What Caused This Man to be Erect for So Long?
Talk about being excited. A 22-year-old man has been hospitalized after a mountain biking accident left him in a state of... ahem... penile erection. So what does the biking accident have to do with a disobeying penis? That's what he was trying to figure out for seven weeks.
The condition is known as priapism, defined as a "persistent and painful erection of the penis." The embarrassed young adventurer (he did not release his name) waited 35 days before seeking medical help at Tallaght Hospital in Dublin. Even after having a doctor look at it, it took some alternative thinking to "bring down" the problem.
After home remedies, like sex, didn't work, doctors attempted compression. Compressing "the subject" did not work either. So doctors turn to the extreme, using a gel foam and four tiny platinum coils which were inserted into an abnormal artery and vein connection. This method finally worked with the patient reporting "satisfactory erection and intercourse."
So what caused the "high-flow priapism" without any sexual stimulation? The man just fell astride his bicycle's handlebars -- in other words, he just fell the worng way. "We were very happy with the outcome," Dr. Ronan Browne, the doctor who treated the aroused man, said. "It was an anxious time for the patient as it would be for any young man."
Doctors said that this is only the third documented case of unwanted erections, which did carry a small risk of impotence. But the 22-year-old is just fine and has not came back to the hospital for any treatment regarding not being able to -- you know -- be up and ready again. Though this is just a little funny, it actually was not a fun experience for the poor young man at all.
As we mentioned before priapism is a very painful disease and the man did not comment on whether or not the cure was as agonizing. Well, we're glad he is okay and back to his regular self (hehe).
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