Wedding Night Ruined When Bride Discovers She’s Allergic To Her Husband
Posted by: Wendy Atterberry
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9:40AM, Thursday November 5th 2009
Well, this is surely one way to get out of having sex with your husband. After two years of dating, Mike, 27, and Julie Boyde, 26, decided to have unprotected sex for the first time on their wedding night with disastrous results. “Before, we were always very careful and used protection—this time we didn’t,’ said Julie. “We figured, ‘we’re married, if we get pregnant, we get pregnant.’” So they went for it and Julie immediately felt intense pain, “like somebody sticking needles up inside of me like a real painful burning. It was really scary.” Medical tests eventually showed that Julie suffers from something called seminal plasma hypersensitivity, which basically means she’s allergic to Mike’s sperm and her body reacts to it with swelling, itching, and inflammation of the nerve endings. “The pain, and at times blisters, would go on for weeks,” Julie said. “On a scale of one to ten, it’s pretty much ten.” The Boydes have now abandoned their plan to conceive naturally and have started adoption proceedings. Hopefully, for everyone’s benefit, Mike got himself a vasectomy. [via Daily Mail]
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Tommy from Boston
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 10:13 am: [report]
Vasectomy doesn’t get rid of the semen, just the sperm, so it wouldn’t stop the problem.
MuchoMacho
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 10:17 am: [report]
deal breaker.
equnsuocha
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 10:51 am: [report]
Why do they have to adopt? Couldn’t they do in vitro?
Jillybean
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 10:54 am: [report]
Wow.
I don’t consider myself superstitious, but this would freak me out. It’s as though the gods of sex themselves think these two are incompatible.
Kiki T
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 10:57 am: [report]
Oh snap!
fireflyeyes
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 10:58 am: [report]
@equnsuocha: The problem there is that if she reacts so poorly to his sperm, there’s a good chance her body would also reject the fetus. There’s a constant struggle going on between the mother’s immune system and the foreign genes of her unborn at the best of time - in this case it would probably be much worse and result in a very difficult pregnancy for her, if not miscarriages.
Queen Frostine
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 11:12 am: [report]
This is why you test drive the car before you buy it and drive it off the lot.
verynervous
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 12:40 pm: [report]
QF, I think a lot of people are test-driving with the sticker still on. It doesn’t seem that weird to wait until after you buy to peel it off.
MuchoMacho
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 12:48 pm: [report]
i think lack of steam in the bedroom killed one of my relationships. we ended on really good terms b/c we both were just not feeling it, and her current husband and i got together one night and did shots and partied like rock stars when i got home from iraq. it happens. thank god we werent “wait till marriage” people…
EastCoastMale
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 01:11 pm: [report]
I agree QF, I personally wouldn’t want to only have that type of encounter on my wedding night in case something like this did happen.
As Tommy said, a vasectomy doesn’t sound like it would help in this particular situation and besides that, I cannot think of any situation in which I would be willing to get one.
Anna Banana
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 03:05 pm: [report]
This is so extremely rare that most people don’t need an unprotected “test drive” before marriage. I feel bad for the couple, but am glad they are going the adoption route. Luckily they can still do it with the “sticker” on.
Arsenic
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 06:31 pm: [report]
I actually have a very mild version of this with my current of 5 years. Nothing major, it just makes my skin red where it falls and makes me more susceptible to infections. Yeah, had a fun year or so while we figured *that* out. The true allergy is very rare, but I’ve found quite a few women that have experienced some sensitivity to, er, “the product” if you will.
AnitaBath
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 07:45 pm: [report]
I actually read the actual article on this. Her body sees her husband’s sperm as an allergen, so it attacks and destroys it, thus making it impossible to conceive together. Treatments have failed, so that’s why they’re turning to adoption. They’ve been married for about four years now.
And it’s not like they didn’t do a “test drive” before they were married. They just didn’t want to get pregnant so they never had unprotected sex. I don’t see anything wrong with that.
Anniushka
wrote on November 5 2009 @ 10:33 pm: [report]
Wow… wait, so she had never even touched his semen before their wedding night, or is it only the vagina that’s sensitive to it? That’s so weird and terrible. Poor them.
bogart4017
wrote on November 6 2009 @ 02:37 pm: [report]
I’ve heard of cases like this before except the women would have allegic reactions to the man’s semen. Bizarre.