Man Treated for Seven-Week-Long Erection

[DJ_KiDDvIcIOUs]

A 22-year-old man suffered an erection for seven weeks after a mountain bike crash. The hard-on finally subsided after two weeks of medical treatment in a hospital.

"It was an anxious time for the patient, as it would be for any young man," Dr. Ronan Browne, a doctor at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital, where the man was treated, told the Irish Examiner.

The man received the injury—described as "high-flow" priapism "with rigid erection"—after crashing into his handle bars. For reasons that aren't clear, he waited five weeks before seeking treatment at Dublin's Tallaght Hospital, where it took doctors two weeks to find a cure.

From the Irish Examiner:

Medics eventually treated the man after inserting gel foam and four tiny platinum coils at an abnormal connection between an artery and a vein that supplied blood to the man's penis. This reduced the high-flow blood supply to the penis, ending the erection.
"We were very happy with the outcome," Browne said, adding that he expects the man to make a full recovery from his "unusual" injury.

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I bet that got old real quick

 

[Shikamaru]

Doesn't sound that bad.

 

[Hobgoblin]

Sounds pretty awkward to me. I hope he didnt have to go to any funerals in those 7 weeks.

 

[TX85]

Damn,I imagine it'd suck having one for 7 hours straight hours and so 7 weeks..not good

 

[Donnie Darko]

If erections last more than four hours... call more ladies.

 

[Teelie]

It reminds me of the woman recently in the news who suffered from a 3 hour orgasm.

Sure it sounds like "hell yeah, give me that!" but then if you really think about it, no it's really not that fun.

 

[Shikamaru]

Was he constantly aroused for 7 weeks as well? You can have an erection and not "feel" anything.

 

[Duke]

This must have been pretty "hard" on him.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Priape has a strong sense of humor, don't pray him to hard.

 

[Monsieur Xavier]

Was he constantly aroused for 7 weeks as well? You can have an erection and not "feel" anything.

He was constantly in pain after the first few days I think.
You can have an erection because you are aroused but it's not because you have an erection that you are aroused.

 

[chamber-music]

Must of been a major bone of contention in his house

 

[zeroapoc]

If erections last more than four hours... call more ladies.

Hasn't been an issue so far.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Must have been a long, hard road to recovery.

 

[The Question]

Joking aside, that sounds like it would be excruciatingly painful.

 

[MrMaooz]

Don't you need to get immediate help if it lasts for 4 hours?

 

[Ant-manic]

good thing he wasn't a popular children's show host.