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   In a new case study, Irish doctors report the baffling case of a   
   33-year-old man who injected his own semen intravenously for a   
   year and a half, a self-developed “cure” intended to treat his   
   chronic back pain. It does not appear to have worked.   
      
   After reportedly injecting semen into his arm every month for 18   
   months, the man finally sought medical attention—but not for his   
   arm. The patient instead complained of “severe, sudden onset   
   lower pack pain,” having lifted a “heavy steel object” three   
   days beforehand. During his checkup, the doctor found a patch of   
   red swelling on his right forearm, after which the man admitted   
   he’d been injecting himself with his own semen using a   
   hypodermic needle he purchased online.   
      
   This time around, he had injected three “doses” of semen,   
   entering both his blood vessels and his muscles.   
      
   “This is the first reported case of semen injection for use as a   
   medical treatment,” the doctors at Adelaide and Meath Hospital   
   in Ireland wrote in the case study, titled “Semenly” Harmless   
   Back Pain: An Unusual Presentation of a Subcutaneous Abscess,”   
   published in the Irish Medical Journal.   
      
   The swollen region grew and hardened around the area on his arm   
   where he’d injected his semen, and an x-ray revealed an area of   
   trapped air beneath the man’s skin. The doctors immediately   
   hospitalized the patient, treating him with an intravenous   
   antimicrobial therapy. After the patient’s back pain improved,   
   he discharged himself.   
      
   The doctors performed a search of the medical literature and   
   beyond, revealing not a single case of intravenous semen   
   injection for back pain. According to the case study:   
      
   Although there is a report of the effects of subcutaneous semen   
   injection into rats and rabbits, there were no cases of   
   intravenous semen injection into humans found across the   
   literature. A search of more eclectic internet sites and forums   
   found no other documentation of semen injection for back pain   
   treatment or other uses. Attempts at intravenous and arterial   
   injection of harmful substances such as mercury, gasoline,   
   charcoal lighter fluid, hydrochloric acid and hydrocarbon are   
   well described and are generally carried out in attempted   
   suicide as opposed to the case detailed above in which the   
   patient was aiming to relieve physical discomfort.   
      
   After dutifully reporting the first ever case of a man injecting   
   himself with his own semen to try to treat his back pain, the   
   authors offered a warning: It’s dangerous for the untrained to   
   perform intravenous injections on themselves, especially when   
   they’re injecting things that aren’t supposed to be injected   
   into veins, like semen.   
      
   This isn’t the first time we’ve seen something... like this.   
   Perhaps this case reminds you of Aaron Traywick, the deceased   
   biohacker who once gave himself an unregulated herpes treatment   
   in front of a crowd.   
      
   The doctors behind the new case study note that the semen-   
   injecting patient demonstrates the risks of experimenting on   
   yourself prior to safety-assessed clinical research.   
      
   https://gizmodo.com/man-injects-18-doses-of-semen-into-arm-to-   
   cure-back-pai-1831817131   
      
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