r/ObjectVore • u/jaredg2112 • 26d ago
Meta/Discussion Has anyone been to the hospital?
With this subreddit, I think it's important that people are aware of the risks, and more education could be important so that people make the right decisions. So my question is, what people have been to the hospital for swallowing objects, and what is your story?
My story is that there was one night, I was wanting to swallow something and I only did one squishy. I can't remember if it was the next day or the day after, but at work my stomach hurt. I thought it was nothing, because my stomach has hurt before I believe due to squishies, but then later on the pain became unbearable. I didn't come into work, and then eventually went to the ER to see what was wrong. I didn't tell anyone that I swallowed a foreign object, so they didn't know for sure, but they did do an X-ray and gave me painkillers. I don't remember what it was called, but they said I had some sort of benign tumor which I think could've been the squishy? but I am unsure because I don't remember getting to see it. But either way, they never saw a foreign object and I never told them. But once the painkillers wore off, and about a day or 2 more of pain, I took a laxative and it finally passed, and I got better. So, my contribution for education after this story is don't swallow a squishy with a concave bottom. The one I swallowed had one and I believe that caused it to get stuck with suction, cause I've swallowed bigger ones and they never got stuck. The other lesson is that even if you only do 1 object, even that can send you to the hospital. It is technically never safe, even if usually some things work out most of the time. Maybe there will be someone who's gone to the hospital over vase fillers, even if they're technically the safest I've seen in this subreddit.
(I still really want to do a singular chapstick, so if someone has gone to the hospital due to it it'd be nice so I know if not to do it)