A woman who doctors had diagnosed with a UTI actually had a glass tumbler in her bladder for four years.
The 45-year-old had been to the hospital with lower UTI (urinary tract infection) symptoms, such as leaking.
When X-rays were taken, doctors were shocked to discover a glass inside her bladder.
It was enclosed in a bladder stone that was 8cm broad and difficult to see with the naked eye.
The woman, from Tunisia, revealed she had used the drinking glass as a sex toy a number of years before.
She had placed it into the urethral, rather than the vagina.
Her condition was reported in a medical journal, which included a photo of the glass and bladder stone as well as the stunning scan.
The medical report does not mention it, but the woman may have been performing what is known as a “urethral sounding.”
Inserting a glass or object into the urethra is a hazardous practice. – to “heighten sexual pleasure and arousal”, it says on Wed MD .
Some writers have stated that people have been seen to deliberately drop objects there as a result of mental health issues or for fun, but it is not advised.
“The most frequent drivers of foreign objects in the bladder are sexual or erotic in nature, according to the study.
“Various objects have been inserted into the bladder and many patients fail to remove them themselves and are very embarrassed to seek medical advice, which is the origin of a clinical picture which is most often atypical which occurs in a patient particular terrain.”
A patient came to Academic Hospital Habib Bourguiba’s emergency department with a UTI complaint.
She wrote that she’d had cystitis “numerous times,” but no one had ever checked her bladders for infection.
The woman did not have blood in her urine or experience urinary incontinence, according to the report.
However, according to the report, she had a higher than usual red blood cell range, suggesting that she was battling an infection.
Bladder stones are usually tiny, seldom more than a few centimeters in diameter – this patient’s was 8cm in width.
When a person’s bladder is not properly emptied, minerals in the urine harden and grow into hard masses.
It is important to fully clean out the bladder after a catheter removal, as stones can form around foreign objects trapped in the bladder, such as a glass tumbler.
In this situation, doctors performed a cholecystectomy on the patient to remove the bladder stone.
They then opened it up to show the glass, which had been in her body for years, that still remained.
The woman was discharged from the hospital two days later and was able to return home.
“Complicated forms are those diagnosed late and often associated with recurrent urinary tract infections, lithiasis and/or fistulas.
“The best treatment remains preventive by balancing the underlying etiopathogenic disorder and by a good sex education.”
