'If you won't stop for yourself, do it for the people in your life'

"I watched a 105-pound (47kg) woman drag my husband out of a chair and start compressions so hard it broke his ribs."

A woman has shared a stern warning about energy drinks after her husband’s heart stopped shortly after drinking one.

Meagan took to TikTok with her story, which has since received more than 334,000 likes.

“This is the story about how I’ve become the obnoxious person that tells you that energy drinks are dangerous and that you need to stop drinking them,” she said.

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“One night at the beginning of January, my husband woke me up in the middle of the night and said he wasn’t feeling great. His heart was racing, his hands and feet were going numb, and he just didn’t feel right.

“I thought he was just having a panic attack, so I told him we’d wait it out, but he said ‘no, I think I need you to call 911, I think I need to go to the hospital.”

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Meagan's husband "wasn't feeling right" in the moments before his heart stopped. Picture: TikTok

"All these alarms started going off, and his heart stopped"

Meagan went outside to warm up the car (it was snowing at their US home in January), and when she came back inside her husband told her they needed to “go to the hospital immediately”.

“We pull up to the emergency room, and I’m telling the woman he’s having chest pains and doesn’t feel right,” she said.

“His heart is racing, and he feels like he’s going to pass out.

“I went back outside to move the car, and by the time I was back inside they already had him in a triage room.”

Meagan said her husband then told the nurse he was “gonna go down”, before he promptly went unconscious.

“All these alarms started going off, and his heart stopped,” she said.

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“The woman yanked him out of the chair to do chest compressions, she’d called the alarm, and people were coming in basically to revive him.

“It happened so fast and was so scary, and they put me in a side waiting room until I could see him again.

“Even as they were bringing him down the hallway, I could hear them saying ‘he’s choking, he’s vomiting, he’s down again’.

“There was literally nothing I could do.”

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Megan said she was left traumatised by her husband's ordeal. Picture: Supplied

"I haven't been able to get over it"

Meagan was soon able to see her husband again, but not before he’d given the medical team a scare.

“They brought me back into the room after they’d done all these tests on him,” she said.

“They’d got him back, but he was still very woozy. They had him on fentanyl, and they ended up breaking his ribs trying to resuscitate him.

“It was extremely traumatic.”

Meagan said cardiologists couldn’t figure out what had happened to her husband, but eventually figured that he was dehydrated and having too many energy drinks.

“If you’re someone who’s downing two, three or four a day, I would highly encourage you to stop,” Meagan said.

“These companies don’t care about you at all, and this can be extremely dangerous.

“Even if you’re not doing it for yourself, do it for the people in your life.

“From his experience, he just passed out and doesn’t really know what happened, but I watched a 105-pound woman drag my husband out of a chair and start compressions so hard it broke his ribs.

“This is something I haven’t been able to get over.”

Originally published as 'If you won't stop for yourself, do it for the people in your life'