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A man who apparently thought he had haemorrhoids was rushed to hospital with a sword up his bum after trying some bizarre home surgery.

He told medics that he was initially too embarrassed to just turn up for treatment for the condition on his bottom.

But he ended up on the local news as he allowed cameras in to the treatment room as a warning to others.

He told doctors that he wanted to remove his own piles and tried to do so with a miniature, but razor sharp sword.

It didn’t go well, pretty much thanks to the bizarre position he needed to be in to reach around and slice them off.

Unfortunately he slipped and the blade shot up his back passage.

And if that wasn't strange enough - it turns out he never had haemorrhoids in the first place.

The 54-year-old man, named online as Yan Wu, was working in Hangzhou City, China, and said he had been suffering from haemorrhoidal pain for a decade.

Doctors at the hospital are now urging others not to try similar home treatments and to get professional help.

It seems on the 15th of this month, he could no longer take the sharp pains in his anus and decided to try to cut out his haemorrhoids himself.

A short time later, he phoned in work telling staff: “I can’t come into work today. I have a sword stuck in my bum.”

The sword appeared to be a type of key chain measuring about 10cm in length. It was a type of fantasy-style scimitar that had a few pointed parts that could easily hook into flesh.

The co-worker went to his home and rushed his injured colleague to the Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital to have the blood soaked sword removed.

The patient told reporters he had been crouching over the mirror while he was trying to remove the piles and he slipped.

Luckily, doctors were able to remove the sword without too much trouble and he spent a few days in recovery at the hospital .

However, doctors then laid the devastating news on him the he didn’t actually have any haemorrhoids.