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Doctors at a hospital in Taipei, were stunned when they spotted the long thin object inside 20-year-old student Shing Fang after an X-ray was carried out.

She told doctors she had been diagnosed with depression over the fact her GP had been unable to solve the problem, and that in the last few weeks the pain had become so bad she couldn't eat properly or concentrate on her studies.

Medics at the Taiwanese hospital concluded the pen had been inside her for nearly six months.

They operated immediately to remove the pen, and warned that if it had been there any longer, it could well have led to peritonitis, or even DEATH.

As to how the pen got there, the young woman said she had no memory at all of swallowing it but agreed that it might well have been swallowed after drinking too much to celebrate doing well in an exam some six months previously.

Pretty ink-redible eh?