A man who took 1,176 ibuprofen tablets in one month suffered some serious consequences to his health, as I’m sure you can well imagine.
Taken in small recommended doses it’s a pretty effective painkiller but things took a turn for the worse after a man known as SB misread how many tablets he was meant to take for each dose.
His unfortunate story was recounted on YouTube and he was a runner whose healthy habit had some dire consequences for his body, as running is a high impact form of exercise and it can cause a person a bit of pain.
Medical experts reckon that even the keenest of runners should probably not do it every day in order to spare their bodies a bit of the damage done by pounding the pavement.
As for SB, the guy was feeling the strain of running and took some ibuprofen to stop his soreness from hurting so much but it wouldn’t be long before the cure led to more woe than the cause.
Take one to two of these at most three times a day, do not exceed the recommended dosage (Getty Stock Image)
It would have been a decently sensible idea but unfortunately the man misunderstood how many tablets he was meant to take for each dosage and was taking far too many at once several times a day.
The first time he took the tablets he swallowed seven of them in one day and felt like his pain had gone, but the amount he consumed soon increased and before long he was getting through 28 painkillers a day.
Far exceeding the recommended dosage, which for the record is taking a dose of one or two 200mg tablets at most three times a day, the man started feeling the ill effects of taking so many painkillers.
He felt as though one dose of the painkillers had become ‘stuck in his chest’ and he then started feeling sharp chest pains, but instead of seeing a doctor he tried taking more painkillers to quash the agony.
The man started tasting blood, vomiting it up and seeing that his stool was unusually dark, with all three of those major warning signs that you ought to see a doctor.
At first he took more painkillers to deal with the pain they were causing him (Getty Stock Image)
When he had trouble urinating, struggled with dizziness and suffered from fatigue he finally went to the hospital where doctors noticed that he was very pale, his blood pressure would drop when he stood up and his heart rate was incredibly elevated.
Adding to the man’s woes doctors also diagnosed him with haematemesis, where someone is suspected to be bleeding internally and vomiting blood as a consequence of that.
Tests at the hospital revealed the true extent of the damage the man who took 1,176 ibuprofen tablets in a month had suffered, as he was suffering from bleeding ulcers in his stomach and oesophagus and his kidneys were failing.
The man was given emergency dialysis to save his kidneys and the internal bleeding was stopped.
Incredibly, the man made a full recovery.
Featured Image Credit: Getty Stock/YouTube/ChubbyEmu
Topics: Health, Drugs
A man who took one of the most potent hallucinogenic drugs in the world filmed his experience to show people what it would be like.
The plant salvia divinorum can affect all of a person’s senses and is the strongest natural psychedelic drug in the world, with a long record of it being taken by people throughout history.
Plenty of countries have made the plant illegal, and in 2016, the UK introduced a law against it, which means you’d be in heaps of trouble if you were caught possessing, supplying, importing or producing it.
According to FRANK, salvia kicks in instantly if smoked but can take a few minutes for the effects to appear if chewed and if taken in high quantities it can result in ‘dramatic time distortions and frightening hallucinations’.
The drug can also irritate your throat and lungs as well as cause ‘dizziness and nausea’, while someone experiencing mntal health issues would do well to stay away from it as it ‘could trigger a psychotic episode’.
Salvia divinorum leaves are the most potent natural psychedelic substance. (Public Domain)
One man who wanted to show what the effects would look like is Greg Schulz, who posted a video of himself under the influence of salvia to his YouTube channel, which let people see the effects.
Being under the influence of a mind-altering drug is dangerous by itself, and when Greg took it, he had people in the room with him who had to make sure he didn’t fall out of his chair or injure himself.
At one point in the video they had to hold him in place to prevent him from tipping to the ground, so stick another bullet point on the list of reasons not to do this.
He took the drug by smoking and quickly experienced slurred speech as he struggled to articulate himself, while just a minute later his control over his motor functions seemed to be lacking.
Shortly after he took the drug his friends had to step in to make sure he didn’t hurt himself on his trip. (YouTube/Greg Schulz)
It was about this time that his friends rushed over to make sure he didn’t fall and to clear any objects he might collide with out of his way.
Lying on the ground and speaking not-quite-sense, he then went to standing and hugging with a friend while he said ‘f**k you everybody’.
Later on, he was seen back in his chair saying something like ‘candy landing from hell’, so it seems like he was really tripping.
In the comments, plenty of others shared their experience taking the drug, with trips ranging from ‘living as a rock’ to going on a ‘seven year quest to collect the last electron, neutron and proton to build the universe back up’.
Others said they saw ‘swirling patterns and became a beam of light’ and had to catch a friend who took the drug and ‘forgot how to talk’ then ‘almost got hit by a car’.
Don’t do drugs, kiddos.
