Woman, 19, battling incontinence gets a CORK removed from her vagina
Woman, 19, battles incontinence, has a CORK removed from her genitals that has been there for three and a half years
- EXCLUSIVE: The 19-year-old woman from Serbia caught the cork during sex
- She was unable to extract the item and waited 3 years before seeking help out of embarrassment
- Medics had to amputate her urethra after discovering an opening in her bladder
A teen needed a cork pulled out of her vagina after she became incontinent.
The 19-year-old from Serbia sought help after she suddenly found herself unable to control her bladder.
She confessed to medics that she slid the cork, apparently from a bottle of hairspray, three and a half years ago while in “a state of impaired judgment” during sex.
But the woman, who was not named, was so afraid of the reactions of doctors that she did not seek help out of “shame and fear of judgement”.
The woman from Belgrade also tried to remove the cork herself, but was unsuccessful.
The 19-year-old from Belgrade, Serbia, confessed to medics that she pushed in the cork of a bottle of hairspray during sex “in a state of impaired judgment.” But she was so afraid of doctors’ reactions that she didn’t seek medical help out of “shame and fear of judgement.”
A 2021 study from The Royal College of Surgeons of England found that it is becoming increasingly common for objects to be removed from the rectum by the NHS. Cases increased especially rapidly among men
Write in the Journal of Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecologydoctors said the woman was still menstruating regularly.
On examination, doctors found swollen tissue around the cork in her vagina.
The date of the incident was not disclosed in the case report of University Hospital Center physicians Dr. Dragisa Misovic in Belgrade.
The cork was extracted with standard gynecological tools.
But medics then amputated her urethra — the tube through which urine leaves the body — after discovering another complication.
The woman had developed a hole between her bladder and the wall of the vagina – known medically as a vesicovaginal fistula – through which urine leaked from her vagina.
According to the NHS, the opening can be caused by difficulties during childbirth, certain types of surgery or after radiation.
Some people may also be born with a fistula.
It is unclear whether the hairspray cork was behind the opening.
However, foreign objects are known to cause the fistula.
Doctors in Belgrade treated the fistula by catheterizing the woman before referring her to the urology department for further diagnosis and treatment.
In addition to corks, other objects reportedly recovered from vaginas by medics over the years include plastic aerosol cans, a plastic cup, and even children’s toys.
There are also hundreds of reports from doctors the retrieval of objects lodged in the rectum – with the first case recorded in medical literature in the 16th century.
NHS doctors are no strangers to dealing with similar incidents, with data analysis from last year finding that around 400 ‘foreign’ objects are extracted from English anuses each year.
This was estimated to cost the taxpayer around £340,000 a year for things like medicines to carry out procedures and the manpower of NHS staff.
But inserting objects into a rectum, also known as anal play, carries a number of risks.
In addition to lodged objects, they can also potentially perforate the intestine, which can be fatal as material from the digestive tract can travel to other parts of the body and cause infection.