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Woman Enters MRI With Butt Plug, Ends Up In Hospital (gizmodo.com)

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The woman reportedly screamed out in pain as she was being taken out of the machine.

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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fun fact: Lots of metals aren't detected by those. I have a single piece of body jewelry that weighs over half a pound, and it's never been picked up by either walk-thru or hand wand metal detectors. Maybe they set the sensitivity too low, but even airports have missed that piece of jewelry (prior to back-scatter x-rays, etc.). I've worn it through two MRIs, along with all of my other piercings, and had zero problems.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe it's not a metal that's ferrous?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 minutes ago

As far as my own body jewelry goes, that's 100% it.

(And, if you want to be paranoid, just think: non-ferrous metals aren't going to show up on airport metal detectors either. Nor do ceramics, although ceramic metal matrices do. They'll show up on x-rays, but last I knew you could opt out of x-rays, and the pat down that the TSA does is NOT as thorough as they think it is.)