A 22-year-old man in Saudi Arabia really found himself in a pinch: He had a pair of three-inch tweezers stuck in his urethra.

Even more cringe-inducing: The man lived with the tweezers in his penis for four years, according to a report in the May issue of Urology Case Reports that is just now going viral.

The patient became a part of medical history when he decided to visit a clinic in Saudi Arabia to deal with that nagging tweezer issue on his private parts.

X-rays, one of which can be seen below, showed that “long foreign body” was actually a metal forceps slightly more than three inches long stuck in the anterior urethra.

The man denied having any urological symptoms, fevers or chills and was able to pass urine normally.

During the physical examinations, doctors noticed both his bladder and the opening to his urethra were normal-sized. But there was also “a palpable long foreign body from the mid-shaft of the penis to beyond the penoscrotal junction.”