A jobless man died after a vibrator became lodged in his body and was too embarrassed to see a doctor, an inquest has heard.
Nigel Willis, 50, could not remove the sex toy and spent five days lying on the sofa, unable to get up because of the agonising pain, at a house he shared with his elderly mother in Forest Hill, south-east London.
A friend begged him to get help, and he eventually went to University Hospital Lewisham suffering from septic shock.
Southwark Coroner's Court heard he was admitted to intensive care on New Year’s Eve 2013 as a result.
Surgeons managed to remove the vibrator, but he died two months later after failing to recover from his injuries.
In a statement read at the inquest he said Mr Willis had been unable to remove the vibrator which he had inserted into his rectum days before his admission to hospital.
Tragic. He should have went to the doctors. They've seen worse anyways. A vibrator isn't really that peculiar. If it was a cucumber or a carrot that would have been much worse. Apparently being embarassed is more important than being alive. Poor guy tho