A man who drank 12 energy drinks in the space of just 10 minutes ended up suffering a horrible impact on his organs that landed him in hospital.
The 36-year-old gamer arrived at the emergency room reportedly ‘gripping’ the armrests of his chair in pain.
This is according to the retelling by a YouTuber known as Chubbyemu, who shared the worrying tale with their 3.3 million subscribers.
In the clip, they explained: “One day, at his workplace, JS thought it would be funny to chug some energy drinks. The admin loved to stock them in the fridge, and the company always touted the drinks as a wonderful benefit for a great place to work.
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“At the table now, JS wanted to put on a show. He was going to chug 12 energy drinks in 10 minutes, and it was going to be legendary. At first it felt cold on the way down. He could feel the burn at the back of his throat. But as the cans continued, the burn started to become discomfort as it felt like sores were growing and tearing up his mouth.
“Immediately after chugging all 12 energy drinks,JS didn’t feel well. The bottom of his chest was burning. He wasn’t sure if it was his stomach or his heart hurting. He was short of breath and to take his mind off of everything, he started playing some games.”
However, things seemed to go from bad to worse as the YouTuber continued: “As the hours passed, JS could feel his heart fluttering. ‘But this shouldn’t be happening’, he thought… What started as a discomfort at the bottom of his chest started radiating out to his back, in-between his shoulder blades. JS knew he was wired, he could feel it all throughout the night while he was playing games and watching his friends stream. He thought taking a small shot of some other drink could help relieve some of this pain. But problems started happening when JS emptied his stomach into the kitchen sink.”
In hospital, medics discovered that JS’s body wasn’t responding to insulin and a further look into his health uncovered problems with his pancreas, with the video warning that the man’s pancreas was ‘starting to digest itself’.
This was a wake-up call for the man, realizing that he had been ‘holding steady until his organs just suddenly shut down because the inflammation got infected, and spilled into his blood’.
The clip concluded: “With supportive care, and antibiotics. A diligent medical team, and a renewed sense of life, realizing he had everything he could ever want, JS was able to make a recovery.”
Many people took to the YouTube comment section to react to the video, with one user writing: “My favorite part of these stories is when the patient doesn't tell the medical team about the super weird/ unusual thing they did prior to symptoms starting.”
And another said: “6 liters of anything in 10 minutes sounds like trouble to me.”