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    NEW YORK - A man has sued the maker of the health drink Boost Plus, claiming the vitamin-enriched beverage gave him an erection that would not subside and caused him to be hospitalized.

    The lawsuit filed by Christopher Woods of New York said he bought the nutrition beverage made by the pharmaceutical company Novartis AG at a drugstore on June 5, 2004, and drank it.

    Woods’ court papers say he woke up the next morning “with an erection that would not subside” and sought treatment that day for the condition, called severe priapism.

    They say Woods, 29, underwent surgery for implantation of a Winter shunt, which moves blood from one area to another.

    The lawsuit, filed late Monday, says Woods later had problems that required a hospital visit and penile artery embolization, a way of closing blood vessels. Closing off some blood flow prevents engorgement and lessens the likelihood of an erection.

    Woods’ lawsuit, which seeks unspecified damages, names Novartis Consumer Health Inc. as a defendant. A spokeswoman for the company, Brandi Robinson, said Tuesday the company was aware of the lawsuit but does not comment on pending litigation.

    Woods’ lawyer did not return telephone calls for comment Tuesday.

    Novartis’ Boost Plus Web site describes the drink as “a great tasting, high calorie, nutritionally complete oral supplement for people who require extra energy and protein in a limited volume,” in vanilla, chocolate and strawberry.

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    Weird.

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    Publicity stunt. Novartis has to be behind this.

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    Default Re: Man Blames Health Drink For Unwanted Erection

    You think somebody would really have penile surgery as a publicity stunt? I guess anything's possible. Or do you think he never really had surgery at all?

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    I think he probably didn't have the surgery. I mean, WTF, there's so much competition in the energy drink market. All you have to do is run a few stories saying that a particular drink gave someone a big everlasting boner, and several hundred guys are going to be standing in front of the cooler at 7-11 when they see Boost Plus and recognize the name. Booya, sales.

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    Default Re: Man Blames Health Drink For Unwanted Erection

    you can get an erection from too much vitamins?


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    I have heard of the occurence of priapism, with no apparent determinable cause. Maybe that's what happened to the guy, and he's blaming the nearest available candidate for litigation.

    OTOH, it would make for great publicity, and grossly swollen, jacked up sales figures, lol...
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    Quote Originally Posted by Djoser View Post

    OTOH, it would make for great publicity, and grossly swollen, jacked up sales figures, lol...

    hahahaha I wonder if he thought long and hard about it........

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    I bet he just thought of whatever he had done differently. There are too many variables to make that conclusion, but you can sue anybody. It will get thrown out of court.

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    Oh, hell, the Novartis Corp could have paid the guy off to say he had used that drink. Think about it, some guy is facing a big medical bill for an embarrassing condition and here comes this lawyer saying that if he goes along, all his bills will be paid plus an extra $10K or something more will be paid to him for his time.

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    I swear Americans will sue for the stupidest things

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    Quote Originally Posted by short skirts View Post
    hahahaha I wonder if he thought long and hard about it........
    Good comeback--why am I not surprised?


    That's a pretty good scenario, Paris, you might have hit upon the answer. I was thinking it would be well worth paying punitive damages for that kind of publicity, especially if it cost less than some slick bullshit advertising campaign with 1/20th the effectiveness. But rather than sitting around hoping somebody blamed your drink for their Permabone*, why not simply wait for the next priapism case to hit a big hospital, and send in the team of lawyers and PR men, just as you described?

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    He should have just taken sudafed. I know a guy who took viagra (he was only in his 20s and had no need for it) and he had an erection for so long that he was in shocking pain. So he went to the doctor and was told to just take some sudafed.

    I myself have had the unfortunate experience of erectile dysfunction caused by sudafed. My ex boyfriend had taken some to treat his allergies and later that night there was no action for me.

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    Publicity stunt.


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    Awwww, I was really hoping this would be real and not a publicity stunt.


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    Totally on the Sudafed. When I was 16, my then-boyfriend and I were both ready to give up the whole virginity thing. His parents were out of town for the weekend, and he lit a bunch of candles and put some music on, and I wore something sheer and pretty, and we were ready to roll... only to find that the Sudafed he'd taken earlier that afternoon had killed the party. NOTHING could wake him up. Poor guy, he was so humiliated.

    We wound up giving over our virginities in my bedroom a couple weeks later, in a rush, totally awkward at four in the afternoon, with my baby brothers banging the door down. Le sigh.

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    Thumbs down to sudafed.

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    hehe...his name is "Woods"...hehe.

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    ^^^ haha I didn't catch that! Too much!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dottie Rebel View Post
    hehe...his name is "Woods"...hehe.
    That's SO mature.

    ...heehee... woods...


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    Default Re: Man Blames Health Drink For Unwanted Erection

    sudafed can ah, yea, kill the mood

    But this whole thing sounds like BS. I did a Google search on priapism treatments and not a single site mentioned anything as extreme as as "shunt" Nothing adds up about this story, so I assume it's BS.

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