A man has filed a case against pharmaceutical company Novartis AG, over their health drink Boost Plus, to seek unspecified damages. He claims their vitamin-enriched beverage gave him a long-lasting erection that would not decrease and which caused him to be hospitalized.

Christopher Woods, 29, says he bought the nutrition beverage at a drugstore on June 5, 2004.

According to court papers, Wood claims he woke up the next day "with an erection that would not subside" and had to seek medical treatment for the condition, called severe priapism.

He then had to undergo surgery for implantation of a Winter shunt, which transfer blood from one area to another.

Later on, he had to get penile artery embolization, which is a method of closing blood vessels to manage engorgement and decreases the chances of an erection.