I'm going to say that it's better to go and not need to have gone than to NOT go and have a problem occur with infection or bowel obstruction.

Also, I'm sure it goes without saying that this is why you should ONLY! ONLY ONLY ONLY! use anal-safe products with a flare so you don't lose them internally.

If it's in the back door, nature will take its course.

If you're a girl and it's a vagina-tomato, I'd suggest going to an Urgent care or something, NOT an ER (if possible)

I'm with DS. Please go to the ER. Yes, the embarrassment factor is high, but imagine how high it will be if the situation becomes worse and you have to go to the hospital for a more serious reason than originally. Please do go and I wish you the best. Oh, and I second DS's advice: only use anal-safe products.

Take care of yourself.


(Edit: Urgent Care is much cheaper for those without insurance.)

I think for now I'm just going to see if nature moves things along, but if it starts to get painful whatsoever I will head to the ER.

I would give it a little while to work itself out - since it's a tomato, not something rigid or sharp or chemically treated (face it, tomatoes have probably been up there before, just in a different...form), you're safe for at least a little while. If it doesn't work itself out by say, the end of the day (or you have any discomfort whatsoever), I'd suggest seeing a professional.

Although it's something organic and made of food, but the actual digestion of food takes place in the stomach and the small intestine. The large intestine is only for removing water from already digested liquid stool and ridding the body of used up blood cells, it doesn't actually "digest" food the way the upper GI system does. Also, the type of contractions are different than higher up in the GI tract, and it may not break down, although your colon may remove the water from the tomato, and leave you with a hard lump which could cause an obstruction. You could poop it out later, there is no way to know.

Some urgent care centers can handle this, some cannot. The ones at Walgreens or CVS are only staffed by Nurse Practitioners and are basically for sore throats and UTIs. They don't have the equipment nor training to remove things from the bowel.

I would go to the ER. Just to be on the safe side. Don't be embarrassed, every ER worker has seen this, and knows how to professionally deal with it.

Good luck. Let us know how you are after you receive care or it comes out.

I'd give it a day- I think if you eat some stuff, and relax, nature will take its course.

I have my nurses aid. If it don't come out within a few hours and trying, go to the doctor. If the item isn't properly clean or has spesticides on it, it can get really bad. Your system will adsorb those and you can get very sick, since it will not be passing through stomach acid to kill off the bad things.

If you have a short toy (or even fingers) that is the same size or bigger as the tomato, you might try and stretch out some to see if that helps. You just don't want to push it up any farther. Also try and work as much lube in there as you can.

I would not wait to long though. Better to go than wait and cause more problems.

I'm with Kinky Girlfriend. A laxative might help.

Keep us updated.

Fell asleep after my last post since I had been up all night. Woke up, ate a fiber bar, and then 'had to go'. Crisis averted! Definitely never doing that again. Thanks for the advice everyone!

Hehehe this is an Eden Public Service Announcement.

Good news! Glad you're OK! Lesson learned, yeah?

I'm glad everything worked out for you

CatASStrophe averted! Seriously, I'm glad to see things worked out for the better.

This is a little late, but if the tomato still had a hard, pointy, dried-out stem attached then it could be bad - since it didn't (and you did wash it first, right?) it probably was OK. I'm not sure what the complications might have been if it had cracked and squirted, though, as the intestines generally don't have acid in them. It might have acted as a laxative, but then again it might have given you colitis. Better to be safe and not put funny things up there.

I would suggest only going to the ER as a last resort. This is a tomatoe. First off your bowels are already loaded with bacteria and feces may be digested food, it's still putrid so tomatoe rot from a day isn't going to hurt you. Unless you left the stem there, should be no sharps to worry about.

Let nature take its coarse and may I suggest try piercing the tomatoe with a tapered, yet blunt, object. Like the butt end of a sharpie. This will allow the tomatoe's insides to squeeze out, thus making it more squeezable and easier to pass. It's the skin that's keeping in its nice round shape.

Either way I hope you learned your lesson.

I'm glad this had a happy…ending

I know this is a very open group and we all have our own Kinks. But a tomato???? Next time try putting it in a condom..that way you have something to pull it out with.