To cure his back pain Irish man injects himself with own semen. It didn’t help.
- This is the first reported case of semen injection for use as a medical treatment
- Man made decision without any medical advice
A 33-year-old man who had been suffering from back pain decided to treat himself by resorting to an unusual remedy not supported by scientific research: he injected himself with a dose of his own semen every month for a year and a half.
The “alternative therapy” baffled doctors at Tallaght University Hospital in Dublin, where the man showed up recently with severe back pain and a swollen arm, according to a case report published this month in the Irish Medical Journal.
“This is the first reported case of semen injection for use as a medical treatment,” the doctors wrote in the report they titled, “’Semenly’ Harmless Back Pain: An Unusual Presentation of a Subcutaneous Abscess.”
The unnamed man used his semen “as an innovative method” to treat his chronic back pain, a decision he made without any medical advice, the report says.
He bought a hypodermic needle online and injected himself with a monthly dose of his semen for 18 months.
The method does not appear to have worked.