Woman Dreams She Swallowed Her Engagement Ring and Wakes Up To a Terrifying Truth

Trichophagia

This woman had to have a 10-pound ball of her own hair surgically removed from her stomach after she had spent the last five years pulling it out of her head and eating it. The disorder is called trichophagia, and at its peak, she was consistently vomiting and suffering from severe stomach pains. She lost forty pounds before she went to a doctor to have the hair removed. 

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