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.

  • DankOfAmerica@reddthat.com
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    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?

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      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.

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      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.

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    I was wanded before getting into an MRI.

    This article on Gizmodo links to an article from The Sun, and that has a x-ray image from…Reddit that came from Twitter. Until I see the FDA report I’m calling bullshit.

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    I am not going to kink shame(because plugs are hot), but you should feel pretty dumb for wearing a plug of unknown, or known, metallic content in a MAGNETIC Resonance Machine. Maybe don’t even wear one while doing anything abnormal like a medical exam; interviews, do you.

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    🎶 Well did she ever return, no she never returned

    And her fate is still unlearned

    She may plug forever the hole beneath her

    She’s the lady who never returned 🎶

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    She probably was in the hospital before that for the MRT. I don’t think they have such a machine in normal clinics since its so expensive.

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      Some Imaging Centers are located separately from hospitals. You have to goto a different location than where you went for MRI if something like this happens.

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      most mri machines are not at hospitals but privately owned office fronts. i work for a mri company that has about 200 mri machines in office complexes threw out America.