By Sam Blanchard Health Reporter For Mailonline
Published: 13:08 GMT, 16 January 2019 | Updated: 13:50 GMT, 16 January 2019
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A man has baffled doctors by injecting himself with his own semen in a bid to try and cure back pain.
The 33-year-old, who was admitted to a hospital in Dublin, had been injecting himself with his own ejaculate for a year-and-a-half before medics found out.
When he visited the doctor complaining of severe pain in his lower back, they noticed a red rash and swelling in his forearm.
His right arm had become infected with cellulitis as a result of the bizarre habit, which the doctor's report described as 'dangerous'.
The man, who was treated at a hospital in Dublin, had swelling in his right forearm, which was infected with cellulitis because he had been injecting semen into it for 18 months
Doctors did an X-ray to rule out there being an object in the man's arm and it revealed a 'local collection' where he had been injecting himself
'He had devised this "cure" independent of any medical advice,' Dr Lisa Dunne wrote in a case report in the Irish Medical Journal.
'He revealed he had injected one monthly "dose" of semen for 18 consecutive months using a hypodermic needle which had been purchased online.'
Needless to say, the semen injections did not cure his back pain – which worsened after he lifted a heavy steel object – but his
