Why men over 50 keep getting things stuck up their bottoms

The NHS spent hundreds of thousands on removing foreign objects from rectums last year (Picture: Getty/ Metro)

When a gentleman in his fifties, Robert*, shuffled into Dr Lawrence Cunningham’s GP surgery, he initially complained of tummy pain.

‘It took nearly an hour of gentle questioning before he admitted the truth,’ Dr Lawrence tells Metro.

‘He had a glass jar stuck up his bottom that he couldn’t get out himself.’

This isn’t an isolated incident, with the NHS forking out roughly £3,172,200 in the past five years to remove foreign objects from people’s rectums.

In 2025 alone, 505 people were admitted to hospital for this reaso...