Who knew that hickies could almost kill you?!! A woman in New Zealand was partially paralyzed from a hickey that caused her to have a small stroke, the New Zealand Medical Journal said according to a media report.

The 44-year-old New Zealander went to the emergency room after she found that she couldn’t move her left arm while she was watching TV, The Christchurch Press reported. Read more after the jump…

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(MSNBC)–Doctors concluded that she had had a stroke but were perplexed as to why, the paper said. Then they found a “love bite” on her neck near a major artery, and discovered a clot in the artery beneath the hickey — a small vertical bruise.

“Because it was a love bite there would be a lot of suction,” said Dr. Wu, who attended to the woman over a year ago at the Middlemore Hospital in Auckland, according to the paper.

“Because of the physical trauma it had made a bit of bruising inside the vessel.” He added the clot traveled to the woman’s heart and caused the stroke.