This is a surprising clinical case. A woman has been operated on after forgetting a sex toy in her vagina for nearly ten years. She recently suffered from urinary incontinence.
Be careful not to forget your sex toy inside after use! This is the lesson that could be learned from a strange clinical case … That of a thirty-eight-year-old Scottish woman, recently hospitalized so that doctors could remove a vibrator 8 cm in length, stuck in her vagina. for ten years. Reported by the Journal of Sexual Medicine, this is the first sextoy removal, stuck there, ever.
At the origin of his urinary incontinence
The thirty-something first presented to the‘Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, because she had lost a lot of weight, suffered from feverishness and urinary incontinence. An x-ray examination quickly revealed the presence of the foreign object that was causing these problems. A surprise for the patient who had no idea how the sex toy got there. The latter only remembered having used one during a well-watered hunkie ten years ago.
But if this story can surprise or make you smile, you should know that the presence of a vibrator in this part of the body could have been fatal. Urinary flow was no longer being done correctly, because the sex toy had caused the development of a vesico-vaginal fistula, that is to say of an abnormal communication between the vagina and the bladder. This is what caused the urinary incontinence and also caused sepsis in the patient. Surgery was therefore necessary to repair the vaginal tissues, and she was given prolonged antibiotic treatment.
An almost similar case in a 98-year-old patient
If this is the first time that doctors have removed a sextoy, the medical literature has listed, since 1948, 44 cases of foreign objects stuck in the vagina or bladder of patients, and having caused a vesicovaginal fistula.
These include the removal, in the past, of diaphragms, pens, a needle, a child’s toy, a cylindrical jewelry box and even a glass bottle, as well as 8 other unidentified objects. These cases found in the annals of medicine by the practitioners who removed the sextoy concerned women of 37 years on average, but the youngest of them was 9 years old and the oldest, 98 years old.
However, even if these retention of foreign objects can be the source of many health problems, many embarrassed women sometimes wait a long time before going to the emergency room. The average time before a diagnosis is in fact fifteen months. We are still far from the ten years spent with the forgotten sex toy!
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