A Welsh man has been hospitalised for more than two weeks with a painful condition which has left him with a permanent erection.
Danny Polaris, from Swansea , was told to try an erection enhancing drug which was injected into his penis.
Despite thinking the drug was harmless, Danny was left with a painful erection which is yet to subside and even thought he was on death's door when the pain caused him to black out.
Speaking to PinkNews , jazz singer and sex columnist Danny said: "I was partying at a club, and I took a Viagra before I went.
"I met a nurse, who I went home with, who ended up injecting an erection enhancer into my c**k.
"I didn't want to do it to start with but I consented. I thought, why not, what could possibly go wrong? It's one of the worst decisions of my life."
Waking up the next morning, Danny discovered his erection had not gone down but he initially put off seeking medical help and went to Berlin Pride with his flatmate's wine cooler wrapped around his penis.
A day later, the erection became even more painful and he was taken to hospital "screaming in pain".
Since then, he has been diagnosed with priapism and a number of extremely painful treatments have been tried to reduce the swelling.
This has included driving needles through the side of his penis five times a day, pushing a plastic nail down his urethra without anaesthetic, and emergency surgery involving taking a vein from his leg to draw the blood away.
He has lost so much blood, he required a transfusion.
Despite this, Danny still has an erection two weeks since the injection and remains in hospital on blood thinners.
He said: "Some days I wake up and I just cry about how stupid I was, about what I've lost, about what's going to happen to me.
"I don't know how much it's going to cost to get my penis working how it used to be working.
"Sex is very important to me. I'm a sex writer, I write erotica and edit erotica. I need all the help I can get.
"I don't know what's going to happen in the future... will I have sex again?"
Danny now lives in Berlin, where he was on the night out.
A Go Fund Me page has been set up by a friend to help pay for his treatment and recovery costs, raising more than €500.
But Danny, who is in an open relationship, is worried about the impact on that relationship.
He added: "This is a marathon, and it's going to take me a long time to recover.
"My advice to anyone with a penis is be careful when you take Viagra and don't let anyone come near your c*** with an injection because it's not worth it."
