Maxine Killingback, who lives on her own, jumped up in shock when she felt the rat bite the top of her leg and fell over onto the floor, hurting her back.
After drowning the rat herself using a plunger and barricading the toilet to stop other rats which were trying to get out, she phoned Greenwich Council only to be told she would have to wait three weeks for them to come and sort out the problem.
The 55 year-old, from Armada Court, Creek Road, Deptford, was too afraid to go back in the bathroom and fled the flat to stay with her partner in Woolwich following the incident on March 17.
She said: : "You don't expect to sit down to spend a penny and be bitten by a rat. It just felt like someone had put a needle in me."
Ms Killingback said: "It was a big, black one, seven or eight inches long." She tried flushing the toilet chain twice but the creature came back each time. Ms Killingback, who says she has a nervous disposition, then jammed a bleach bottle next to the plunger and kept it there until the rat had drowned.
Update: There's a news video here.
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