A man took 40,000 ecstasy pills over nine years and survived, according to resurfaced report

The legendary tale of a man who took 40,000 pills over nine years and survived has resurfaced. 

The anonymous person, known only as Mr A, had his story published in a 2006 report in the psychiatry journal ‘Psychosomatics’, as per The Face.

Mr A encountered ecstasy after getting into the club scene and partying, gaining him easy access to the drug.

At the height of his ecstasy-fuelled lifestyle between 21 and 30, he reportedly took up to 25 pills a day. He eventually quit, due to repeatedly collapsing at parties and being hospitalised, but was “high for months” due to the amount of MDMA in his system, according to Dr Christos Kouimtsidis, the original report’s author.

Kouimtsidis’ original report states: “For the first two years, he took five tablets every weekend.

“It escalated to an average daily use of three-and-a-half tablets for the next three years, and further to an average of 25 daily over the next four years,” he added.

He often mixed other drugs with the MDMA, taking “solvents, benzodiazepines, amphetamines, LSD, cocaine and heroin” whilst also smoking marijuana.

Although he survived, Mr A was left with lasting side effects from long-term exposure, suffering from “tunnel vision, severe panic attacks, recurrent anxiety, depression, muscle rigidity (particularly at the neck and jaw levels), functional hallucinations and paranoid ideation.”

Mr A left a residential unit and dropped out of contact with the services around 20 years ago. Nothing has been discovered about the man or his health since.