She had forgotten its existence until reminded of it by irritation some years before death.

It was remarkable that when the pessary was removed it was found to have largely retained its original wax covering.

Hurxthal mentions the removal of a pessary which had been in the pelvis for forty-one years.
Jackson speaks of a glove-pessary remaining in the vagina thirty-five years.

Mackey reports the removal of a glass pessary after fifty-five years' incarceration.
There is an account of a young girl addicted to onanism who died from the presence of a pewter cup in her vagina; it had been there fourteen months.

Shame had led her to conceal her condition for all the period during which she suffered pain in the hypogastrium, and diarrhea.