In the first reported case of its kind (thankfully), an Irish man ended up with a serious skin infection after injecting himself with his own semen.

The 33-year-old presented to a Dublin hospital complaining of severe lower back pain three days after lifting a heavy object.

The patient, who had a history of chronic back pain, also displayed a small erythematous area on his right arm, according to a case report in the Irish Medical Journal.

It was then that he revealed his self-devised semen ‘cure’, admitting he had been administering the IV injections once a month for the past 18 months for his bad back — but had recently given himself three IM and IV doses.