A jazz singer has been in hospital for two weeks with a painful and life-threatening erection after he injected an enhancing drug into his penis.
Danny Polaris, from Swansea, took the drug after already taking Viagra during a late-night hookup with a nurse and it is now possible his penis will have to be amputated.
The following day, despite being in severe pain, Polaris, who is gay, went to Berlin Pride and wrapped a wine cooler around his erect member.
Doctors have since stuck a seven-inch nail into his urethra with no anaesthetic and tried to withdraw blood with needles but neither method has worked.
The jazz singer, who lives in Berlin, told PinkNews: ‘It was one of the worst decisions of my life.
‘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.
‘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.’
He described the experience as a ‘ten out of ten’ on the pain scale.
Polaris fears he may never have sex again and is worried it will impact his open-relationship with his boyfriend.
He has been diagnosed with a priapism, a long-lasting erection that won’t go away.
It can lead to life-threatening blood clots and the pain has been so severe he has blacked out.
Polaris said the nurse was keen to administer the drug before they started having sex and the singer trusted him because of his profession.
But it appears it reacted with his HIV medication and the Viagra he had taken earlier in the night.
Polaris’s friends have set up a GoFundMe page to the ‘brave’ singer to help cover his costs during and after surgery.
