I have a girlfriend who is allergic to me. And allergic to men in general.
Whenever a man touches her, she flinches. Seconds later, her skin turns red, she starts itching uncontrollably, and scratches herself all over. Because of this, I barely touch her. I do not sit too close to her. I do not even hold her hands for long because I do not want to trigger another episode.
In the beginning, I thought the problem was me. Maybe my mouth smelled bad or my body odor irritated her. I bought different perfumes, deodorants, and body sprays anytime she was coming over. Sometimes I sprayed so much that even I could barely breathe in my own room for minutes.
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When we are Netflixing and chilling, she stays on one side of the couch wrapped tightly in a duvet while I sit at the other end. Most times, I want to move closer and hold her in my arms, but I cannot. If I do, she goes through a terrible ordeal afterward, so I leave her alone and let her be comfortable.
According to her, she has always been like this. But if you ask me, I think her ex-boyfriend cursed her. I told her that directly because honestly, nothing else makes sense to me.
Her ex-boyfriend used to be a fraud boy — a 419 guy. She said he sponsored her lifestyle from the crown of her head to the soles of her feet. He spent money carelessly and lavishly too. She was smart enough to save and invest some of the money he gave her.
Then life turned upside down for him. The people he scammed became wiser and business stopped moving well. She said she stood by him during those difficult times.
Still, she eventually broke up with him when she entered tertiary school.
“He was abusive, cheated a lot, smoked, and did all sorts of things,” she told me. “I did not leave him because I got to school and saw better men. Despite his flaws, he was good to me in some ways. I did not leave him hanging either. The same money I saved from what he gave me, I used some of it to renew his apartment rent before I left.”
When she told me that story, I started looking for loopholes. Something that would explain why a man would become so bitter that he would curse her or do something spiritually against her.
Since they broke up, she has never been intimate with anyone else. Anytime she tries, she becomes nauseous and starts vomiting. Yet according to her, she never experienced anything like this while she was with him.
Sometimes her skin suddenly becomes irritated the moment a man touches her.
We have tried before. Even recently, we tried again. At first, things looked normal, like we were finally making progress. Then suddenly she lifted her hands and started scratching her back aggressively. We stopped immediately. Moments later, she ran to the bathroom and started vomiting.
She spent almost four hours there, weak, nauseous, and drained.
I sat quietly in the bedroom with the bathroom door slightly open, frustrated and confused. Watching someone you love suffer while you cannot do anything about it is painful.
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That night was when I finally told her that maybe her ex-boyfriend had cast a spell on her because I genuinely have never heard of anything like this before.
Now I want to ask the house, especially medical professionals here: is this an actual medical condition? Has anyone ever experienced or seen something like this before?
This has been going on for three years now, and honestly, we are both exhausted.
—John
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