Woman’s ‘UTI’ turns out to be GLASS TUMBLER lodged in her bladder for 4 years

A WOMAN who doctors thought was suffering with a UTI actually had a glass tumbler stuck in her bladder for four years.

The 45-year-old had come to hospital complaining of symptoms that sounded like a urinary tract infection.


But doctors were left stunned when scans found an 8cm-wide bladder stone, with a glass inside it.

The woman, from Tunisia, then revealed she had used the drinking glass as a sex toy a number of years before.

Her case was published in a medical journal, including the astonishing scan and an image of the glass and bladder stone.

The patient hadn't got any blood in her urine, nor was she suffering with urinary incontinence.

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But she did have a higher than normal red blood cell range, indicating the body was fighting an infection.

Bladder stones are usually too small to be seen by the naked eye, or a few cms wide – this patient's was 8cm.

They develop from hard masses of minerals that grow when urine is not properly emptied from the bladder.

However they can grow around foreign object lodged in the bladder, for example a glass tumbler.

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Women can sometimes accidentally insert objects into the urethra as it is next to the vagina.

Doctors have had reports of people deliberately placing things there, either due to mental health problems or for pleasure – but it is not recommended.

The report noted: "The motivations most frequently associated with the presence of foreign bodies within the bladder are of a sexual or erotic nature.

"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."

In this case, doctors performed a cystolithotomy to remove the bladder stone.

They then cracked it open to expose the – still in tact – glass, that had been in her body for years.

Two days later the woman had recovered and was well enough to go home.

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The report concluded: "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."

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