Man had toothpick in stomach for 25 years

"I felt like there was something in there and I was in constant pain," he said.

Sohlberg said he had been admitted to hospital more than 100 times since then.

Recently, surgeons removed a six-cm-long wooden toothpick from his abdomen.

Sohlberg, from Lycksele in northern Sweden, said he believed the object was left in his body from the operation a quarter of a decade ago.

"It seems a pity I had to live with it for so many years," he said.

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