David Blaine has been treated by doctors inside his water-filled acrylic sphere, after complaining of various skin related problems.
After a full five days of living inside the tank at New York City's Lincoln Center Blaine's skin is peeling and he has complained of "constant pins and needles" according to his spokesman Pat Smith.
"I think the time has started to really take its toll on my body. It has started to become horrific in many, many ways," Blaine said, according to Reuters. "Every muscle doesn't just ache, it feels like a sharp, shooting pain, like a knife being stabbed."
Blaine said his skin, which has shriveled and pruned due to the water, hurts everywhere, too. His muscles have begun to atrophy, which he says worries him not just for the event's finale, but for "everything after that as well."
"I don't think it's permanent, but I've never felt this kind of pain in a stunt before."
Smith says, "Doctors are concerned that he's weakening. They are going to work with him through the weekend, trying to stabilize both his diet and his training regimen ... His skin is peeling very badly on his hands. Those are our biggest concerns right now."
However, Smith insists Blaine is determined to complete the stunt, which will come to a climax on Monday when he will remove his breathing tube and attempt to hold his breath longer than the record of 8 minutes, 58 seconds, while trying to escape from 150 pounds of chains and handcuffs.
It all goes down in a live two-hour ABC special, David Blaine: Drowned Alive.
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-- Compiled from wire reports
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