DM Beijing - A Chinese woman received the surprise of her life after a recent visit to the doctor to treat her regular headaches. The patient, from Anhui, eastern China, was told that a needle had lodged itself in her brain for at least 46 years, reported People’s Daily Online. A CT scan revealed that a sharp object, nearly two inches in length, was stuck inside her skull. The patient, 48, who is known by her surname of Liu, said she had suffered from regular headaches for more than four decades. Ms Liu visited the doctor often, but had never found out the cause of the pain. After experiencing increasing pain and numbness in half of her body, Ms Li decided to visit Huaibei Miners General Hospital again to have a thorough check up on August 29. 
Hospital staff realised something was wrong when they wheeled Ms Liu into an MRI scanner, because the metal alarm kept beeping when her head went in.
Ms Liu was then referred to do a CT scan to find out the reason of alarm. Shocking X-ray images revealed a 1.8-inch-long needle was lodging near the top of her skull.  Doctors thought it was the metal object that triggered the alarm. They also deduced that the needle had been there for at least 46 years. Ms Liu was baffled how the needle had got into her brain. And doctors could only suspect that it was injected into her head when she was a baby.
Ms Liu’s daughter, who accompanied her mother to the hospital, told reporters from Anhui News: ‘Doctors said the nail was likely to have been inserted into my mother’s head before she was 18 months old. ‘Due to the fact that her brain had not been fully developed at the time, the nail did not affect my mother’s growth. Doctors suggested an open brain surgery to Ms Liu’s and her family for removing the needle as the pin-sharp object could potentially cause epileptic seizures and other severe illnesses. Ms Liu decided to take the operation despite its high level of risks.