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.
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.
Maybe it’s not a metal that’s ferrous?