A 25-year-old father-of-one Romario Dos Santos Alves, a
bodybuilder and a former bodyguard risked his life by
injecting oil and alcohol into his arms. He used the potentially
lethal cocktail to pump up his biceps to 25in and he now faces
a catalogue of serious health issues.
Alves said using the synthetic filler synthol cost him his sanity
and nearly his life as he tried to kill himself when his wife was
six months pregnant. Mr Alves became obsessed with the
drug after moving from his hometown to Goiania in Brazil
three years ago.
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'If you take it once there will definitely be a second
time - it's addictive.I remember the doctor told me that
they would need to amputate both arms - they said
everything in there, all my muscles, were rock.I want
other people to see the dangers, I could have died all
because I wanted bigger muscles. It's just not worth
it.
'I saw some really big guys in the gym with huge arms
and I started to make friends with them.They
introduced me to synthol and I got excited about the
results - I lost control.He began to find ever more
dangerous ways of injecting himself with the oil.'My
muscles started to solidify and I couldn't even inject
my arms - they were full of rocks.I decided the only
thing I could do was buy specialist needles to
inject.The kind of needles used on bulls - there are no
stronger needles around - I know it seems stupid but I
had to get my synthol fix .'
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He even tricked his wife Marisangela Marinho, 22, into injecting
him with the oil in places that he could not reach.But when she
found out ,she told him that if he starts using synthol again or
anything like it she will leave him because of what she went
through.
His biceps then had swollen to an incredible 25 inches but
reactions from members of the public meant that his mental
health deteriorated. He said:
' I was hospitalised in a clinic and my wife was six
months pregnant - it was just me and her, no friends or
family.I decided to fix my ways and I never again
wanted to take any drugs, we went through a really
hard time and almost starved .'
Soon the filler began causing him constant pain and he almost
suffered kidney failure due to the toxins in the oil.And he was
told by a doctor that his only course of action would be to
have one of his arms amputated.But he is thanking God the
doctor told him that they did not have to amputate instead
they could instead remove the synthol rocks which had
formed in his arms.
His swollen muscles terrify children in his hometown of Caldas
Novas in Brazil and they call him a 'beast' and a 'monster' , and
he even models himself as the incredible hulk !
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