According to the DailyMail, 50-year-old
Leonie Blackwell found out she was
allergic to semen at the age of 23.
Leonie who suffers from a rare illness,
Human Seminal Plasma Hypersensitivity,
which causes burning, swelling, pain and
irritation during sexual intercourse had to
stay away from sex which also ended her
marriage.
Sharing her painful experience, she said,
"It began when I was 23 years old. I had
no idea what was causing such pain,
swelling and burning. I really needed a
doctor to give me answers and when they
couldn’t, it compounded the experience. I
went on in search of answers. Sadly when
none were forthcoming I was told it was
in my head.
She finally found a gynaecologist who had
answers to her problem. He was the one
who informed her she had an allergy to
her semen and sadly told her he had no
way of treating it. She had to live with it
for the rest of her life.
The doctor also suggested she use
condoms, but the latex created an allergic
reaction of its own.
She lived with constant pain for seven
years and four months, and in the eight
years after her diagnosis, a product came
out on the market in Australia that
switched off her auto-immune systems
response and thanks to the product she is
well today with no signs of having
Seminal Plasma Hypersensitivity anymore.
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