He wanted to tan, he injected a dangerous drug and the result was a painful erection that lasted 22 hours.

What do you want to do for a tan? A 41-year-old Scot decided to inject melanotan, a synthetic hormone that stimulates cells that determine skin color. However, this had an adverse effect: He suffered an extremely painful erection that lasted 22 hours..

To resolve priapism (prolonged erection of the penis, usually without badual stimulation), it was necessary to endure an injection into your limb every five minutes for half an hour. Eventually, they managed to release the trapped blood without performing any operation.

The patient returned home and had an inflammation for two weeks. However, it was not the end: a month later, I was back at the clinic to treat erectile dysfunction, a usual collateral effect of priapism.

Doctors at Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow, Scotland, stated that they had never seen a similar picture. Therefore, they decided to publish what happened in the scientific journal BMJ case reports, to warn of the consequences of the injection of banned substances, as in the case of the so-called "Barbie drug".