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.
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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.
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.
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.
Joe Harker