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Woman enters MRI with butt plug, ends up in hospital (gizmodo.com)
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It’s the sort of injury that will make you suspicious of sex toys for a long time. The internet has caught wind of a resurfaced story involving a young woman who was sent to the hospital after she underwent a MRI scan while having an apparently metallic butt plug inside herself.

An anonymous medical provider reported the strange incident to the Food and Drug Administration in April 2023, though it’s received renewed media attention this week. The 22-year-old woman reportedly screamed out in pain as she was pulled out of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine following a scan, which then prompted her delayed admission of having had a “butt plug” inserted. Though an ambulance did take her to a hospital afterward, the patient’s ultimate fate is unknown.

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[–] DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com 20 points 6 days ago (3 children)

She had a metallic butt plug at an MRI and that thing didn't rip through her body out of her? Why does the media even have access to her story? How did they find out this happened, how did they have the legal permission to publicly report it?

[–] Emperor 12 points 6 days ago

It was in a report to the FDA. I presume these are made public (minus identifying information) so other medical professionals can keep an eye out for such oddities.

[–] celeste@kbin.earth 6 points 6 days ago

I think something they do in the medical field is report when things go wrong while keeping patients anonymous. The idea is that you can prevent other people from having the same issue.

Hospitals and companies want to avoid getting sued, so they want to lie, but there are mandatory reports you need to make to the government. Then someone can make a report that says 'there were 78 injuries from hidden metal in mri machines this year' and insist on metal detectors beforehand or whatever.

So long as it's carefully made anonymous, it's useful public knowledge, so it's just there as a resource anyone can look at.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

There's no PII in the story.