@wellnes.by.daily: A 17-year-old boy died after his girlfriend gave him a hickey. In 2016, Julio Macias Gonzalez from Mexico City reportedly began convulsing at the dinner table after receiving a love bite from his girlfriend. Doctors believed the intense suction caused a blood clot in his neck that traveled to his brain and triggered a fatal stroke. Paramedics were called, but the teenager could not be saved. As unbelievable as it sounds, another case was documented in New Zealand: a 44-year-old woman developed a clot beneath a hickey near a major artery and suffered a stroke that temporarily paralyzed her left arm. Hickey-related strokes are extremely rare, but they have happened.