Woman who got sex toy stuck warns kinky couples after world's most embarrassing hospital trip

A student teacher has warned kinky couples to be careful in the bedroom after her steamy misadventure turned into a serious visit to A&E.

Mum-of-one Emma Phillips was feeling amorous with partner Lee Miller during the early hours of Saturday morning when a 7 inch sex toy 'disappeared'.

Minutes later the 24-year-old said when she leaned forward she could feel it vibrating inside her bottom wedged behind her hip.

Flustered Emma and 29-year-old Lee tried to extract the toy, bought for £28 as part of a couple's sex aid pack, with a fork handle and then later BBQ prongs before calling for an ambulance.

She added: "After an hour of trying - we knew were going to have to go to hospital. We were both a bit shocked."

Emma, from Wallasey, Wirral, has spoken out about her bizarre emergency and told others not to allow embarrassment from stopping them seeking help if they find themselves in a similar predicament.

She posted a Facebook photo of herself giving a thumb's up from her hospital bed, telling her friends all about her misadventure with a sex toy.

Emma said: "We'd both been drinking the night before so we couldn't drive. I had to make the most embarrassing call to the ambulance at 7am.

"The call handler said 'tell me exactly what the problem is' so I had to tell him."

Within five minutes an ambulance arrived and rushed the pair to Wrexham Maelor Hospital in Wrexham, North Wales.

Emma spent the 45-minute journey perched on one of the seats and was hurried into a room for observations.

Emma said: "At that point it was just more surreal than anything. I didn't feel much pain at that point - I was in too much shock."

Doctors carried out an x-ray to work out where the still-buzzing vibrator was and realised it was too high up and would be too painful for them to manually extract it while she was awake.

Emma said: "I think at that point it started getting quite serious. The doctors were really good - they all moved quite quickly and were so reassuring telling me they saw it quite often which was quite a relief.

"At first we were jokey about it but then realised it wasn't much of a joke especially when there was talk of going through my stomach if they couldn't get it."

As she was being wheeled to theatre doctors told Emma if they couldn't extract it rectally they would have to go through the bowel and take some out which could mean at least six months with a colostomy bag.

Emma said: "I think before that I thought of it as just a little operation to get it out, I still wasn't taking it that seriously.

"When he said that - that only when I woke up would I know whether they would have to cut me open - it was really scary."

At 12pm Emma underwent the minute-and-a-half surgery which involved placing a camera down her throat and the surgeon pressing on her stomach before manually extracting it.

Doctors offered her the toy as a keepsake but she declined.

She was discharged at around 6:30pm before tentatively making her way home to see her two-year-old daughter.

Emma said: "My daughter was staying with my mum and dad as I stayed at Lee's the night before.

"I wasn't going to tell them but then I was going into surgery I knew we were going to have to say something so I told my mum the real reason.

"I just took some painkillers and was told not to use stuff like that again until I was ready. I've learnt that I'll need to be a bit more careful in the future.

"Lee's not been scarred by it - he just thinks it's funny."

Joking aside, Emma now wants to raise awareness and urge anyone in a similar predicament to seek medical attention.

Emma said: "We weren't going to do anything about it because of the embarrassment - there's a big taboo about it - but we knew we needed help.

"I want to say a massive thank you to the ambulance crew and Wrexham Hospital staff who were really good, really reassuring and non-judgmental.

There is a big taboo about this, but it really isn't a big deal. You hear about people becoming really ill or even dying because they're too embarrassed to get help - I would hate that to happen to someone."

A Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board spokesman said: "While we cannot comment on individual cases, we're very pleased to hear that the lady in question was happy with the treatment she received while in our care.

"We would always urge people to exercise the utmost care and caution to prevent any unfortunate or potentially dangerous repercussions, and to seek the right care if any accidents occur."

Emma's Facebook post was spotted by an adult shop, which offered her a free sex toy.