One woman from Tunisia decided to go to her local hospital to check for a possible urinary tract infection (UTI) after she complained that she frequently needs to go to the bathroom.

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However, much to the doctors' and the woman’s horror, the x-ray scan results revealed a ‘giant’ 8cm-wide stone that had been growing in her bladder for four years, encasing what appeared to be a drinking glass.

Apparently, the 45-year-old woman used to use the glass as a sex toy a few years before, inserting it into her urethra (rather than the vagina) for erotic purposes. Then, the piece of glass got lodged inside all the way into her bladder until it was discovered years later.

The doctors found a ‘giant’ bladder stone inside the woman. Credit: Habib Bourguiba University Hospital.
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The woman’s unique case was published in a medical journal, and it was reported that she used to suffer from cystitis, or inflammation of the bladder, several times before. But since the woman never experienced any severe symptoms, it was never investigated.

She also never showed any obvious symptoms of UTI, such as the presence of blood in her urine or urinary incontinence (loss or weakening of urinary sphincter / involuntary leaking of urine).

Though, it was observed that she did have a higher than normal red blood cell range, indicating that her body was fighting an infection. Analysis of her urine revealed she had a red blood cell range of 23 to 25 when a normal range is 4 or less.

The doctors at the hospital operated on the woman and carried out a cystolithotomy – a type of open surgery often done to remove one or more bladder stones.

The 45-year-old woman fully recovered later on and was discharged after two days.

Bladder stones are hard masses of minerals that normally develop when urine is not completely emptied from the bladder. However, in worse-case scenarios, they can also develop as a result of foreign objects being inserted inside the body.

Bladder stones usually vary in size from being too small to be seen by the naked eye to a few centimetres wide.

And while it’s not entirely possible to completely “prevent” bladder stones from forming, you can lower your risk by drinking plenty of water. Water dilutes minerals in your urine, so they're less likely to clump together and form stones.

This is your sign to drink your water, folks!

 

[JayKay]

Alarming!
I do not believe anyone could insert a glass into their urethra, male or female.....it's simply not big enough. It doesn't stretch like the vagina for a woman giving birth.
????

 

[Ricci]

How the hell???? No, I'm not going there, the mind boggles that that was even a thing, or possible, or sexy or whatever.

 

[Lynette Finnigan]

I've had kidney problems from a child and pass kidney stones often!! It's very painful and I cannot, for the life of me, imagine shoving a glass in there for any kind of "pleasure"!!!!

 

[Lynette Finnigan]

Alarming!
I do not believe anyone could insert a glass into their urethra, male or female.....it's simply not big enough. It doesn't stretch like the vagina for a woman giving birth.
????

I too cannot imagine how it could possibly fit!? Unless she'd stretched it after using the glass (must be a tiny one) for years???. But I've passed kidney stones and they're bloody painful.. I could not comprehend any sexual pleasure out of it!?

 

[Diane D]

Woman goes to the hospital for a UTI complaint, but the doctors find something else instead… ​

One woman from Tunisia decided to go to her local hospital to check for a possible urinary tract infection (UTI) after she complained that she frequently needs to go to the bathroom.

​

However, much to the doctors' and the woman’s horror, the x-ray scan results revealed a ‘giant’ 8cm-wide stone that had been growing in her bladder for four years, encasing what appeared to be a drinking glass.

Apparently, the 45-year-old woman used to use the glass as a sex toy a few years before, inserting it into her urethra (rather than the vagina) for erotic purposes. Then, the piece of glass got lodged inside all the way into her bladder until it was discovered years later.

The doctors found a ‘giant’ bladder stone inside the woman. Credit: Habib Bourguiba University Hospital.
​

The woman’s unique case was published in a medical journal, and it was reported that she used to suffer from cystitis, or inflammation of the bladder, several times before. But since the woman never experienced any severe symptoms, it was never investigated.

She also never showed any obvious symptoms of UTI, such as the presence of blood in her urine or urinary incontinence (loss or weakening of urinary sphincter / involuntary leaking of urine).

Though, it was observed that she did have a higher than normal red blood cell range, indicating that her body was fighting an infection. Analysis of her urine revealed she had a red blood cell range of 23 to 25 when a normal range is 4 or less.

The doctors at the hospital operated on the woman and carried out a cystolithotomy – a type of open surgery often done to remove one or more bladder stones.

The 45-year-old woman fully recovered later on and was discharged after two days.

​

Bladder stones are hard masses of minerals that normally develop when urine is not completely emptied from the bladder. However, in worse-case scenarios, they can also develop as a result of foreign objects being inserted inside the body.

Bladder stones usually vary in size from being too small to be seen by the naked eye to a few centimetres wide.

And while it’s not entirely possible to completely “prevent” bladder stones from forming, you can lower your risk by drinking plenty of water. Water dilutes minerals in your urine, so they're less likely to clump together and form stones.

This is your sign to drink your water, folks!

 

[Diane D]

gross!!!

 

[Vinylted]

Yet another internet fable I'd guess, why do we even bother folks. Stick to known facts preferably confined to Oz!

 

[JustPat]

OMG

 

[SeniorSue]

How ridiculous! As a nurse I have tried to catheterise females prior to surgery and it was difficult enough trying to insert a catheter into the urethra, let alone a drinking glass!
However, who knows the TRUE facts?

 

[JayKay]

How ridiculous! As a nurse I have tried to catheterise females prior to surgery and it was difficult enough trying to insert a catheter into the urethra, let alone a drinking glass!
However, who knows the TRUE facts?

The woman would have had to be cut open to have it inserted.

 

[Julie1]

Alarming!
I do not believe anyone could insert a glass into their urethra, male or female.....it's simply not big enough. It doesn't stretch like the vagina for a woman giving birth.
????

JayKay,

Alarming!
I do not believe anyone could insert a glass into their urethra, male or female.....it's simply not big enough. It doesn't stretch like the vagina for a woman giving birth.
????

JayKay,
I could not believe any woman could do that, let alone be a pleasurable experience.
I would only have a catheter under anaesthesia, otherwise no thank you
I can’t talk for men though but don’t they could either.