My daughter came home from a party last night with a hickey. I’m trying to discourage her from getting any more of these evil love bites. I remember my mother telling me a hickey can cause a blood clot that can travel to your heart/brain/other vital organs and kill you. I think what she really meant was if she ever caught me with one she would kill me but that’s off topic. Can anybody let me know if this is true? Can a hickey actually kill you?
What’s the harm of hickeys?
Snopes is silent on hickeys and blood clots. So it seems, is google. Alice, who usually knows what she is talking about, mentions no untimely demises due to excess hickyage. The perfect master himself is silent on the subject of hickeys, other than doo-hickeys, or in the sense of hickeys as a printing artifact. Death by hickey does make a nice story though. 
Nothing on Snopes about it. I guess that if you have some clotting disorder that a hickey could result in some prolonged bleeding. Other than that though, it’s basically a minor bruise and shouldn’t cause any problems in an otherwise healthy teenager making out in the closet at a party with the boys from her class.
Thanks USCDiver…I was hoping not to get a visual of that but now that I have it I’m sure she will never get another hickey because she will never be allowed out of the house again…just kidding.
Thanks to you too Squink, the link was funny and descriptive.
No but chronic hickeys have lead to pregnancy in many cases.
Sure, if your girlfriend finds one she didn’t put there.
Well, maybe if you’re a hemophiliac…
My mom almost died of embarrassment…once when my sister was in high school, she came home late one night with a really ridiculously huge and obvious hickey. Mom read her the riot act, as in “he’s marking his territory! Why do you let him do that to you? It’s a mark of disrespect!” etc., etc. (My sister’s response: “You should just be happy it’s only on my neck, where you can see it!”)
Then, the next weekend, Mom came home from a date leaning her head markedly to one side, and tried to rush off to her room without a proper goodnight to us (like all good teenagers, we were still awake). Of course, we picked up on it, and further investigation revealed - you guessed it - a hickey! Boy, did we give Mom a hard time for that one for a long, long time…
Maybe I just had a deprived childhood, but I don’t know what a hickey looks like. Is it just a bruise? How can you tell that teeth made it – do they leave an impression or is the bruise teeth-shaped?
Well, when I was young enough that I thought giving one was a cool idea, I did it by sucking against her skin, not by biting.
Oh come on-how many boys in elementary school would give themselves hickies (on their arms?)
My cousins used to just for kicks.
I suppose a hickie could kill you (indirectly) if you came home and your wife found it on your neck.
But seriously folks…
A hickie is nothing more than a surface bruise. Suction causing broken blood vessels.
“How did you get that hickey on your neck?”
“I did it myself.”
“How in the world did you give yourself a hickey?”
“I stood on a chair.”
:rolleyes:
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- Yea, a hickey can definitely kill you. Say you’re wading through the Amazon jungle, and you happen upon a previously unknown species of twelve-foot long leech…
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- Yea, a hickey can definitely kill you. Say you’re wading through the Amazon jungle, and you happen upon a previously unknown species of twelve-foot long leech…
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