Achieving success as a medical professional requires more than being a hardworking, compassionate, and knowledgeable individual eager to help those in need. It also helps to have a high tolerance for anything that can make the average person feel nauseous.
Check out these stories to see what I mean. These are anecdotes from doctors, dental hygienists, and EMTs who have discovered some of the most bizarre items lodged inside a human body. We’re talking about parasites, plastic toys, eating utensils, and entire wine bottles.
If that has drawn up enough curiosity, go ahead and scroll through. Hopefully, you’re not having a meal while doing so.
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"I don't know what to tell you, there, Bobbo. Either this kid has a light bulb up his butt or his colon has a great idea.".
Not a doctor, but a former Navy Corpsman. I had a patient come in a few weeks after shooting himself in the femur with a nail from a nail gun. He was on the roof and started to lose his balance, and apparently instinctively placed the nail gun on his leg to keep himself upright. He fell off the roof, pulled out the nail with a pair of vice grips, but couldn’t get all of it. He thought it wasn’t a big deal until one day he was casually walking and his femur snapped in two.
Really, Bored Panda? You're going to censor the word d a m n? Keep going like this and pretty soon you won't have any readers.
Load More Replies...I handled an injury like this, guy nail gunned himself in the femur. They have a safety where you have to touch the tip to something before it will fire, so the thigh is the usual victim. I had him on the phone, asked if medical provider removed the nail. "Nah my boss pulled it out with pliers. "
A few years ago, when I first started working in the ER, a patient came in with severe rectal pain and bleeding. Upon inspection he had large and visible hemorrhoids, so the reasonable assumption was that he had an internal one that burst and was the source of the pain and discomfort right? Well turns out the patient had been experimenting with a gaping device and was placing wine glasses inside his a**l cavity... the device was cheap and plastic, which when he was startled by his mother walking into the room caused him to flinch and flex his sphincter closed and broke the device and the wine glass inside. They managed to get the device out of him but had to come into the er to have the shards removed.
Right?!? I mean at least pick items that aren't fragile or breakable
Load More Replies...Why would you try that when you already have hemorrhoids? How is this anything but painful?
It actually helps a lot to have a flexible anús when you have hemorrhoids :p since any pain and discomfort comes from the polyps being pinched and squeezed. Cannot recommend anything breakable for the purpose though 😆
Load More Replies...'They managed to get the device out of him?' Who are 'they?' Surely not him and his mother?!
WHAT IS WITH GUYS PUTTING GLASS IN THEIR BÚTT??! YOU COULD PICK ANYTHING ELSE! 💀💀💀
Anesthesiologist here. Few years ago, we admitted a young guy (think he was 15) for a surgery consisting in retrieving a huge black d***o in his descending colon. The thing is (are):
- battery was still on and the mamba was vibrating when I had to start my induction and told the guy "think about something pleasant".
- to get something up there (at least 25 cm from the a**s), he admitted afterall he used another d***o to push it that far.
Fortunately, the surgeon managed to get the beast out of him without cutting through his abdomen; he inserted his whole arm and managed to grip it from its base (the area is naturally well lubricated).
I won't say here what the surgeon said afterall. He was kinda mad to be out of his bed at 2 am to fill his arm up some teenager's b******e.
What is the fascination with butts? I'm more inclined to enjoy what comes out, than what goes in. Especially weird shaped objects
So you get off on taking a dump? To each his own, I guess!
Load More Replies...If you really wanna see and hear the best stories, get to know a ColoRectal surgeon (luckily for me, I work with them). I often ask how in the hell they kept a straight face. BTW... Those ER patients are usually the ones that don't return to clinic for follow-ups.
As an intern I saw a patient with a horrible open abdominal wound that wouldn’t heal, and horrible hygiene with no self-care. He came into the ED due to abdominal pain and we found about 12 maggots buried into and crawling in his large open wound.
While that is disgusting, maggots have been used in medical since Napoleonic times. They eat necrotic flesh, leaving healthy tissue alone. Of course, that depends on the species, as some maggots do eat healthy tissue.
I think, but am not sure, that there's a difference between medical maggots, and normal fly maggots.
Load More Replies...Cared for a patient that hung himself in jail. I when suctioning his nasal cavity it was difficult to differentiate maggots from brain tissue.
Why did he hang himself? How did maggots get into his nasal cavity? Genuinely curious.
Load More Replies...Yes that fffing d**g causes necrosis and kills the addicts flesh. Reports told about chunks of flesh just falling from the persons bones like a rotissary chicken.
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X-ray tech here. We had one where a patient stuffed a bottle of maple syrup up his butt, and you could tell the brand was Aunt Jemima from the X-ray.
Well, to his credit, the older bottles DID have an inviting shape. /s
Had a 12 year old patient come in the ICU with a bullet wound on the frontal part of the head. Pink Brain material was oozing out of the bullet hole and out of the nose.
For reference I was doing medical practice in a relatively small hospital in Guatemala. A pretty dangerous city because of d**g trafficking and all.
From the little story bits we could gather, the kid was just playing alongside a nearby river when he suddenly collapsed on the rocks nearby. His grandfather was nearby and was the one who brought him into the hospital. The story suggests that a stray bullet was the one that hit him. The grandfather's story suggests that he heard shooting on the other side of the river, but didn't pay much attention to it because it's common for people to carry guns around and sometimes just randomly shoot in the air. Unfortunately enough for the child, the bullet hit him straight in the head.
We had imaging done on the child and once we got to the head, we saw that his brain was practically turned into mush with the bullet still inside.
We tried everything we could, but he ended up passing away a few hours after.
Poor kid. Am I able-ist to add that nevertheless his death may be been a mercy, compared with living with severe brain damage? But imagine the impunity...very unlikely they ever caught his m******d. As I haven't yet said it today: d**n all those who feed on violence, anywhere in this world.
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Late to the thread so this will probably get buried:
Disclaimer, I am a doctor but this happened years ago in medical school with one of the cadavers we study anatomy on, not a live patient but I still thought it was pretty crazy and definitely memorable!
In the preclinical years of medical school, most medical schools have students enroll in anatomy lab where we dissect cadavers as part of the course. One of the anatomy labs had a cadaver who had passed away from complications from kidney failure (according to the identification tab).
While that anatomy team was dissecting some of the leg and buttock muscles, they found a small caliber bullet in the gluteus medius. No idea how it got there and totally unrelated to the cause of death.
I like to imagine the guy signing paperwork to donate his body to science, thinking that the med students dissecting his butt would get a funny surprise lol.
Hm, I plan to donate my body - perhaps if I have the time I should swallow something funny. Small plastic dinosaur, since I'm a fan? No, nothing will go into my nether openings.
I’m going to sell mine to the highest bidder, Science, local takeaway, Heston Blumenthal, the possibilities are endless!
Load More Replies...For anyone wishing to donate their body, it's important to make sure that those around you know what you want and who to call to make it happen. Your body will have to be retrieved within 48-72 hours of passing or it becomes unsuitable for study. My mother wanted to donate hers. She passed on a Saturday morning. My (idiot) brother told me on Sunday what her wishes were. On Monday I started googling how to do that but it was already too late. She had dementia so her brain could've contributed to medicine's understanding of the disease. It's a shame she wasn't able to.
And keep in mind that not all bodies are accepted. If they don't need bodies when you have one to donate, they will decline. Then you need to be prepared for funeral costs.
Load More Replies...Language question: does "cadaver" have a neutral connotation? For humans, I'd think "dead body" is more polite but English is not my first language.
In medical training, a body is almost always referred to as a cadaver.
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My mom was an ER nurse and someone had shoved an entire wine bottle up their a*s. The bottle created a giant suction, and it had started to pull their intestines out when they attempted to remove it. They had to drill a hole in the base of the bottle to k**l the suction, and then remove the bottle from their a*****e.
It was a pinot noir at least.
A friend of a former bandmate works at the emergency department closest to St. Pauli (infamous red light district in germany) said they purchased a special diamond drill for that occasion, since this cases aren't as uncommon as you might want to think.
Friend worked volunteer ambulance back in the 80s. It's not only the a*s.
Load More Replies...Just for the physics: was that bottle empty? Like, a full body can't create a suction that can be reduced by drilling a hole in the bottle, can it?
um... given the tightness of the muscles and the one way nature of the digestive tract I'm pretty sure it could and yes the bottle would have had to be empty for the air to displace and create the vacuum
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When I was cycling I had a freak event where a bee flew into my mouth and stung my uvula. Rode 8 miles back home with what felt like an awful sore throat. Checked in the mirror and stinger was still lodged in. Went to urgent care after where a doctor had to numb and remove it with tweezers. After successfully removing it he said he has never heard of it happening before and we had a laugh about it. Overall 4/10, unenjoyable forsure but not the worst thing I’ve ever experienced. Was riding with 2 people who were very allergic to bees so would’ve been likely deadly for them. If you want proof check my post history lol.
When I was 3, I got a bee stuck in my eye! It landed on my lower eyelid and I blinked hard and wound up getting the bee stuck under my upper eyelid. I still remember what that felt like. It didn't sting, though. And mom and Oma managed to get it out eventually.
I have a frequent flyer who enjoys systematically inserting needles and straightened-out paper clips up his urethra and then coming to the hospital to get them removed.
I don't mind the kink, but hospitals are not anyone's personal pleasure palaces. Accidents can happen, fine. But this sounds like that guy thinks a hospital has nothing better to do than giving him his kick. At what point is that sexual abuse of the hospital staff (as in making them participants in his s*x game without their consent)?
They should look him in the eye(s) next time and ask loudly "Which is your kink? Putting needles and wires in your urethra or having them removed?"
Load More Replies...Yeah because the hospital staff have a ton of free time to spend on some depraved creeps sexual f****h. He's making them a part of the f****h, unwilling participants, vile. Have your kinks but keep them behind closed doors.
Agreed.... do not drag unwilling participants into your f****h. Seriously that is just rude.
Load More Replies...Google Albert Fish. Be forewarned he was a despicable man. The things he did will give you nightmares.
My brother had a guy come into his ER several years ago, and found an infection in his urethra. Upon further examination, this guy intentionally stuck a catheter in to bypass the urinary tract, and the other end was hooked up to a bag of wine.
Yes, he made it so he pees out wine as a party trick and people drink it. WTAF.
The urethra opens into the bladder so I don’t know how the uinary tract was bypassed. He peed out urine mixed with wine.
Ok.....I drink.....I drink a lot.... But I'm NEVER gonna need a drink that bad
Like, i feel something is missing here... being genuine, so dont hate.. bout i feel loke a hole is missing, because inserting a cath would just go inside no? Where was the bag hooked too? Cuz if outside.. this suggests the wine is actually passing though the tube no? Or is it just like, the tube is in there, but the wine never leaves the bag? Cuz that doesnt look like they're being relived of it, rather the other way around no? Like some twisted version of an I.V. Its late.. putting to much thought into this.. but i feel like, 'hey, fr, mechanically, i have questions'.
The wine gets fed into the bladder so when he pees, it has wine in it
Load More Replies...'Upon further examination (...) the other end was hooked up to a bag of wine'. I call BS.
My kid has had a catheter due to hospitalizations and I am trying to understand the logistics of this post and its not tracking...
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Well, when i was posted in the forensics department during my medical school, I once got the opportunity to see a slug lodged in the trachea of a dead man. Yep, that’s how he had died. He choked on a slug while trying to eat it whole (and raw). Oh and he also had two chilies in his pocket which the residents assumed he was gonna eat while eating the slug to make it more spicy.
I never forget the Australian Sam Ballard who are a slug for a challenge and died.
Such a sad case. Seemed harmless at the time.
Load More Replies...Exactly! The slug got sacrificed for no reason because of a dumb human!
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Woman came into the ER complaining of severe abdominal pain. On ultrasound they found 2 rolls of camera film in her v****a. She looked shocked and said that she put them up there 4 months prior and "must have forgot to take them back out.".
There's a real story here... i wanna know whats on the film, where they were smuggled out of, and will it be a movie later?
She had to put them there. It she put them up her butt, she ran the danger of developing polarrhoids.
I am use to say that it is a v****a not a clown car when women have 6 or more kids , but I think I am going to change that to "it is not a kangaroo pouch" or a fan ny pack
How could she forgot to take it out and how far she pushed it that it stayed in place?
EMT here I've had a homeless guy who complained about numbness and Inability to move his legs, upon further inspection there was more parasite and bacterial infection than leg, literally had to use a trash bag to prevent the maggots from getting everywhere. Xylazine is a hell of a d**g.
Isn't xylazine for animal use and not intended for human consumption but sometimes mixed in fentanyl?
Are you suggesting that most other d***s are recommended for human consumption?
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As a dentist, we are used to seeing unerupted teeth still stuck in the bone which we call impacted teeth. The 3rd molars are notorious for this. And after them, the canine teeth also get impacted. We confirm this when we see the radiographs of the patient. I was seeing this radiograph of a colleagues patient who had a missing canine which we were expecting on find impacted. We were not able to find it and thought it was missing. On closer inspection, we saw it impacted just below the eye lying horizontally.
Posted this before as well...
All four of my wisdom teeth were impacted. Two pointing outwards towards my cheeks, two almost horizontal towards my other teeth.
My lower wisdom teeth were growing horizontal, pushing against my molars, they had to cut them to remove them 🥴
Load More Replies...TIL the word "canine tooth". German word is, literally translated, corner tooth.
Since I had to have my second molars removed years ago for reasons, I have had the pleasure of my third molars slowly erupting and moving into position.
Suddenly very happy I don't have teeth in my upper jaw anymore. No eye scream for me!
I had something similar to this. Both of my upper canine teeth were impacted sideways under my nose. They were removed when I was 14 years old, along with two premolar teeth on the bottom to balance things out. I fought getting my wisdom teeth removed for years because I had so many teeth removed.
I had 11 teeth pulled over 2 sessions a few months back. Because it's was necessary. No one should fight to get necessary dental procedures done.
Load More Replies...I had a tooth in the roof of my mouth. Started having an awful taste in my mouth. The tooth was removed and was decaying. The oral surgeon in the hospital said it was one of the most difficult surgeries he had done as the roots were intertwined in bone. It was just under my eye socket.
Duh, they're not going to have the actual patient's actual X-ray. This is stolen from a reddit thread.
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Not a dr but I worked at a hospital as a phlebotomist. One night a man came in with a toy plastic broccoli up his butt, like from a kids play kitchen. He was the talk of the hospital for a couple days.
The flared end should never be gradual, either.
Load More Replies...Stumbled on a Lego and landed on the broccoli, I'm sure we've all done that at some point
Load More Replies...After reading other entries, my first thought was ‘well at least it wasn’t glass’
Just a medical student but during one of my rotations in the ICU we had this patient who had not one but two strokes within a 24 hour time period. When he first came to the ED it was clear he having a stroke but his symptoms were relatively mild (some numbness in his fingers, mild difficulty speaking). He didn't think anything was wrong so he left against medical advice before we could do any serious work up. He came back later in the day with much more severe symptoms and so he immediately got spirited up to the ICU which is where I saw him.
On his MRI it showed signs of "watershed strokes" which are a special kind of brain injury which indicate the brain as a whole is not getting enough blood. We typically see this type of stroke in severe trauma patients who have lost large amounts of blood, but this guy didn't any have signs of blood loss at all!
We did some more advanced imaging and what we saw was that he was missing BOTH his carotid arteries, and one of his basilar arteries (normal people have two of these that run up from the spinal cord into the brain). So basically he only had one tiny blood vessel perfusing his entire brain. The end result of this was that whenever his blood pressure dropped the slightest amount his brain would get starved for oxygen and he would have a stroke.
The real kicker? Even after being admitted to the ICU and being on multiple pressors to keep this blood pressure up to prevent him from stroking out, he still wanted to leave against medical advice.
'Wanting to leave against medical advice' you know that saying where people make stupid desistions and you question whther or not the few brain cells they have left is getting enough oxygen to think? This is the guy you already know isn't.
A curtain rod. A couple got frisky on Valentine’s Day. Ended the night in the ER with a curtain rod in his butt. It was… something.
One question... How did they manage to arrive to the ER with the curtain rod stuck in there???
Lie flat across the back seat. Hopefully it was one of those telescoping rods.
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I'm not a doctor, but my father is an ER physician. He told me a story one time about how a young adult man came in with his mother complaining of severe stomach pain. The young man claimed to not know why, so my dad ordered X-Rays. Turns out there was a mannequin hand lodged in this man's prostate (maybe? I'm not a physician and he told me this story years ago, so I can't exactly remember). Young fella was fisting himself with a mannequin hand and lost it up his b*m.
Your language has a lot of remarkable specific words for very specialized circumstances and it's really impressive
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Ophthalmologist here. I saw a schizophrenic patient who was smearing feces into his eye. He had a really bad corneal ulcer.
Seriously I had a corneal ulcer ( extended wear contacts) and I can attest that it was significantly more painful than child birth or a c section where the anesthesia wore off before they finished stitching me up.
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Not a doctor but I have to look at X-rays in my role in patient treatment. Dude had a bit of a run-in with a tree stump grinder. There was a straight-up small branch embedded in his calf (that said, most of the calf was hanging off his lower limb) and he had to go in for surgical debridements of the leg almost daily because trees are not very sterile and have a lot of splinters.
Foreign matters (especially organic) are rarely good into wounds 😬
Load More Replies...My dad worked for the city, he was wirh the forestry department and one day he came home early. Very unlike him. Hardest working man I know. Anyways, he ended up almost cutting part of his leg off, the chainsaw got him at his thigh. He comes home and he's mad as heck, why you may ask? He ruined his Levi jeans lmao he always wore his uniform but that day he decided to wear his jeans.
While working in the ER, I had a patient come in with a screwdriver for eyeglasses stuck in his urethra. He claims to have picked up a girl at a bar, brought her back to his place, and he must have blacked out from the alcohol during the “activities.” Apparently she didn’t like that, so she grabbed the screwdriver off his nightstand, shoved it in there, and left. He woke up the next morning and it had gotten sucked all the way in to his perineum. You couldn’t even see it anymore, but you could feel its outline during the physical exam.
Well, few people accidently slip and land on a winebottle or whatever in a way that this object is inserted in their r****m ;)
Load More Replies...Ummm..... that was probrably a lie. There was no girl. Google "sounding" if you dare, (but not at work).
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A live cockroach in an ear 🪳👂.
My ex had an earwig get stuck in his ear and had to have it removed at urgent care. I loathe earwigs in general (really the only “bug” I hate, don’t know why I hate them) and ex was so traumatized by “hearing” it writhe around in his ear that we have agreed to never speak of it XD He has tinnitus/hearing loss so he’d assumed at first it was some new weird symptom. I finally convinced him to go to urgent care after two days because no, dude, hearing scuffling sounds in your ear is NOT normal XD
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My uncle is a doctor, he told me about the time he found a fork and knife inside a patient. How it got there or through which orifice it came in through I was never told nor do I want to think about it BUT. I know that he doesn’t like to tell the story.
My mom worked in psychiatry for many years, and a trend developed at one place where she worked where the patients would swallow cutlery as a form of self harm and to get doctors' attention. I'm thinking most likely because their usual methods of self harm were taken away from them while they were in the psych ward.
Ohh, my dental hygienist told me a couple one made her laugh while telling. So we’re limited to the mouth. One was a small grown up vegetable of sort, so probably a seed ended around the teeth and grown. The other made her curious about an abscess she was working over, since the patient was described as clean and no other big problems, so cleaning and cleaning, the cause came out. A hair. By the shape, and the reaction from the patient, which attributed it to the natural toothbrush, it was evidently a pubic hair.
A pubic hair penetrated the patient's cheek somehow. The it got infected. The abscess take a while to clean safely due to the pus and the pain.
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Cutaneous diphtheria eating away at the pts leg 😭.
So, infected sores likely due to infection from contact with others with it or poor hygiene. All in all, not to worst, nor weirdest on this list.
Seriously, 8 words post, can you just write the words? I'm tired of googling abbreviations with context, then more context because english is not my mother language and google doesn't get it easily. Post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS) . 🤦♀️
Couch cushion, a single connect four piece, and half a roll of pennies (different patients).
According to OP, it was the cushion stuffing. Due to very bad Pica.
Load More Replies...Couch cushion?!? Couch cushion? Like in one piece? Or did they eat it with a lot of chewing? Couch cushion.... wow.
"I fell and...".
I think i expected someone to comment this on one of these.. didn't think it be its own spot.
Saddest thing is, there ARE people who DO fall on things and end up seeing a colorectal surgeon....
It wasn’t a doctor, but I got my flared b******g stuck in my a*****e and was so embarrassed I called my best friend over to help me get it out.
She’s big into a**l stuff with her hubby so I knew if anyone was able to help me it would be her.
My husband got home a few hours later and I said “while you were at work bestie had to come pull my b******g out of my a*****e.”
He was very grateful because at the time his BIL was the ER doctor here lol.
Sounds like a pain in the butt. The b-plug seems solid, though.
I got būttplug. But, fūck me! If I can't get a*****e. I'm guessing arsēhole, but the number of letters don't match.
American spelling vs UK spelling. Americans don't include an "r."
Load More Replies...bu.tt. plug stuck up her hole associated with that region of the body and had a friend help her get it out.
Load More Replies...Wow…way too many of these involve men shoving interesting objects into their a**s or p***s…like…why…
Eh, I don’t kink-shame. My ex was into bútt stuff and wanted me to do a lot of anál play/anál séx. It wasn’t my thing (hurts WAY too much), but I’m not going to judge others who do enjoy putting things up their heiny. Just.. maybe they should use things that aren’t fragile/easily breakable (thinking about the wineglass story..)
Load More Replies...My mom was an OR nurse for the VA. I remember her telling me about a case they had of a homeless vet with a soup ladle completely in his throat.
Doctor friend told me of a patient who came in with a horribly infected p***s. He'd stuffed tiny pebbles under his f******n to mimic a ribbed c****m.
My dad worked part time in an STD clinic and used to get interesting characters there (not always of the STD variety). He said that he often had patients who "had an apple that accidentally slipped into their (bits)" seeking assistance. Dang apples, always going where they aren't meant to. /s
psa pandas-don't shove anything up your a$$. especially not something that could shatter in there.
Many of you had great comments that made me laugh. Clever, clever, clever.
Wow…way too many of these involve men shoving interesting objects into their a**s or p***s…like…why…
Eh, I don’t kink-shame. My ex was into bútt stuff and wanted me to do a lot of anál play/anál séx. It wasn’t my thing (hurts WAY too much), but I’m not going to judge others who do enjoy putting things up their heiny. Just.. maybe they should use things that aren’t fragile/easily breakable (thinking about the wineglass story..)
Load More Replies...My mom was an OR nurse for the VA. I remember her telling me about a case they had of a homeless vet with a soup ladle completely in his throat.
Doctor friend told me of a patient who came in with a horribly infected p***s. He'd stuffed tiny pebbles under his f******n to mimic a ribbed c****m.
My dad worked part time in an STD clinic and used to get interesting characters there (not always of the STD variety). He said that he often had patients who "had an apple that accidentally slipped into their (bits)" seeking assistance. Dang apples, always going where they aren't meant to. /s
psa pandas-don't shove anything up your a$$. especially not something that could shatter in there.
Many of you had great comments that made me laugh. Clever, clever, clever.
