Glasgow (Scotland) - Earache can be really excruciating - a British student thought so too and went to the doctor. But what he fished out of his hearing organ a few days later left more than just him speechless.

Darren McConachie (30) from Glasgow had pain in his ear for days and could no longer hear properly. His doctor then diagnosed the obvious: a middle ear infection.

But even the antibiotics prescribed didn't make it any better. Until one night, the 30-year-old could hardly stand the pain and a lot of pressure spread to one side of his head.

"I thought my ear was going to burst. The pressure got bigger and bigger. It was unbearable," the journalism student recently told the Daily Mail about the moment a few years ago.

Shortly afterwards, he suddenly held the source of all evil in his hand: a small pink Lego brick. "When I held the little object in my hand, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. A tiny piece of pink Lego, covered in wax," he continued.

The pain and pressure eased immediately - all worries that he might be suffering from a more serious illness disappeared.

But how does a Lego brick get into an adult's ear?

The last time he played with Lego was as a child, Darren said, around the turn of the millennium. He therefore believes that the toy must have been inside him for around two decades.

For most of that time, he said, he had no problems with his hearing; it was only in his early 20s that they started.

Although it is not uncommon for children to put small parts such as Lego bricks in their noses and ears, his doctor was also amazed. She had never seen such objects go unnoticed for so many years.

The now 30-year-old believes that one of his brothers could be responsible for the "Lego attack", as he is certain: "I don't think I would have put a piece of Lego in my own ear." However, he has no proof of this and so they laugh about it together despite everything.