41-year-old hospitalized after horrifying DIY treatment for incontinence

This was one piss-poor DIY.A 41-year-old man had been having incontinence, or trouble controlling his bladder, for a month.When he took matters into his own hands, he caused a much more serious medical emergency.By the time he got to doctors, he couldn’t urinate — which causes excruciating pain.Doctors were shocked to find that the cause was a “fix” the patient tried to implement on his own.It turns out the man had superglued his urethra shut over the course of two weeks to treat his incontinence.A new case report from Iran reveals the strange details of how he landed himself on the operating table and had a “10 cm rod-shaped solid block” removed from his penis.Doctors who cared for the man note that foreign objects are stuck into penises all the time — tweezers, wires, pencils, fishhooks, needles, thermometers, hot wax, to name a few.Usually, it’s for some kind of sexual gratification, or disinhibited or disturbed behavior as a result of a psychological or drug-induced mental change.

It even happens with curious kids.But this man didn’t have any history of psychiatric disorders, the doctors said.It appears he simply wanted to treat his incontinence.He’d dropped superglue into his urethra over the course of two weeks, doctors said.

At first, it helped.But after four days, he started feeling burning pain while peeing, and couldn’t produce as much pee.By the time he got medical care, he had complete urinary retention, or the inability to pee at all.This is a medical emergency, as it could cause irreversible damage to the kidneys and severe blood infections.When he got to the doctor’s office, the penis was erect.

It’s possible all the superglue could’ve played a role in that.Doctors were able to feel the hardened glue inside the penis, and saw “brittle fragments” of glue at the opening of the penis head.Doctors attempted a cystoscopy — where a light and camera are inserted into the urethra and bladder to see what’s going on — b...