A man has injected his own sperm to "cure back pain"

• A 33-year-old Irishman was hospitalized after injecting his own semen once a month for a year and a half.
• The patient admitted to a Dublin hospital after several days of lower back pain. Hospital staff discovered that his right lower arm was showing signs of infection and that an X-ray revealed signs of abscess.
• For a year and a half, the patient injected himself his sperm to treat his back pain.
• The patient was diagnosed with cellulitis, a bacterial infection of the skin.

Once a month, a 33-year-old Irish man filled a syringe with his own sperm and injected it into the veins and muscles of his right arm, in the hope that his chronic lower back pain would go away.

Sorry, we do not understand either. This is a new one for books.

The doctors discovered this unusual case when the subject admitted to a Dublin hospital after several days of pain in the lower back caused by the lifting of a heavy object.

After an examination, the medical staff discovered that the bottom of his right arm was red and slightly swollen, with signs of subcutaneous infection quite severe. An x-ray revealed signs of an abscess deep under the skin.

The patient revealed that he was most likely caused by recent injections of his own sperm. Apparently, back pain was a recurring problem for the gentleman, and he had come up with a rather novel plan to treat it by introducing his own intravenous and intramuscular ejaculate.

For a year and a half, he had been trying once a month with his own tonic made by himself. As a result of his last back pain, he had even increased his dose to several injections.

The case study is described in an article in the Irish Medical Journal titled "Semenly" without pain in the back: an unusual presentation of a subcutaneous abscess. His writers delved into the literature – both clinical and alternative – for some explanation, but came empty-handed.

"A comprehensive review of EMBASE, PubMed, Google scholar and the internet in general has been completed, with emphasis on injecting intravenous sperm for the treatment of seizures. back as well as for other medical and non-medical uses, "write the authors.

"Although the effects of subcutaneous sperm injection in rats and rabbits are reported [in 1945]no case of intravenous sperm injection in humans has been detected in the literature ".

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The alleged benefits of sperm for health have been debated in the literature. It is sometimes injected just under the skin in tiny amounts to test for allergic reactions and has been challenged as a means of treating sperm sensitivities.

But when it comes to reducing pain, let alone treating specifically back injuries, it's pretty much unknown.

No doubt there is more in this man's story. Not that we will get to the bottom of things in the near future and that doctors may not do it either.

The patient was diagnosed with cellulitis – a bacterial infection of the skin – and doctors gave him intravenous antimicrobial drugs; but before they can administer additional treatment, he is released.

Apparently, his back felt better.

This research was published in the Irish Medical Journal.

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