A 33-year-old man arrived at Dublin\u2019s Adelaide and Meath Hospital complaining of severe lower back pain. What doctors found when examining his right arm was another story: a red, inflamed, hardened area around a puncture site.<\/p>\n
Under questioning, the patient admitted that he had been injecting his own semen once a month for 18 months with a hypodermic syringe bought online. Without medical indication. Without clinical precedent. His reasoning: it was an \u201cinnovative\u201d method for relieving chronic back pain. On the visit that brought him to the hospital, he had administered three doses at once, both intravascularly and intramuscularly. The X-ray revealed subcutaneous emphysema, edema, and a collection of semen accumulated in the soft tissue of the arm.<\/p>\n
The doctors immediately began intravenous antibiotic treatment. The case was published in the Irish Medical Journal under the title \u2018Semenly Harmless Back Pain\u2019 and was classified as the first documented case in history of semen injection as a medical treatment in humans. The patient discharged himself before they could drain the abscess.<\/p>\n
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