- The unidentified man waited six months before seeking medical attention
- He was diagnosed with an adjustment disorder and prescribed antipsychotic medication
A man suffered extreme pain after pushing a SIM card extractor, an electrical cable and an elastic band into his penis.
The 48-year-old, from Indonesia, told doctors he had never had ‘foreign objects’ inserted before.
He sought help after finding it increasingly difficult to urinate, telling doctors he was ‘dribbling’.
Blood and urine tests revealed that it was an unknown man kidney failure and a urinary tract infection.
Doctors revealed that the unidentified 48-year-old waited six months before seeking medical attention for his eye-opening injury. But the man from Indonesia, who had not previously been diagnosed with a mental illness, did not admit to why he used the tool in the first place.
An X-ray of his pelvis then showed an opaque object and a ‘shadow’ that looked like a wire lodged inside him.
Doctors say the presence of the metal object caused him to develop a bladder stone – which could cause the painful symptoms he was suffering from.
Surgeons who removed the stone, which measured 5 x 3cm, said the SIM card tool was the ‘core’.
Follow-up inspections revealed he also had a four-inch electrical cord and an three-inch needle with a rubber band inside him.
Both objects have also been removed.
The man, described as sexually active, had no documented psychiatric disorders when he initially sought medical care.
“In addition, he denied any history of self-insertion of foreign bodies,” said doctors at Dr. Soetomo General-Teaching Hospital in Surabaya. in East Java wrote in medical journal Radiological case reports.
Psychiatrists later diagnosed the man with an adjustment disorder: an emotional response to a stressful event or life change.
However, they did not explain what caused his reaction.
They prescribed him antipsychotics, medications that reduce and control the symptoms of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
CT scans later confirmed that his ureter was enlarged and that he had hydronephrosis, in which one or both kidneys become stretched and swollen because urine does not drain properly.
He suffered no permanent damage and was reportedly able to urinate normally just a week after the procedure.
Six weeks later he returned for a follow-up appointment, where he claimed to have no complications and renal function appeared normal.
Doctors wrote in the diary that they had recovered objects stuck in the bladder and urethra are fortunately rare.
But they added: ‘Further research and publication are needed to better understand these intriguing cases and improve their management.’
Clutching is when men insert objects into the opening of the penis to increase their sexual pleasure.
These usually involve specially designed tools made of glass or metal.
Doctors at the International Andrology London clinic said there has been a ‘dramatic increase’ in the number of men experiencing urethral problems as a result of it sounding like men want to ‘increase their sexual activities and improve their sexual experiences’.