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Admin · Posted January 21st, 2009, 08:11 AM

I've had friends who passed little pea-sized kidney stones who said it was one of the most excruciatingly painful experiences they've ever had... This kidney stone is literally the size of a cocnut!

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Pictured: The 2.5lb kidney stone the size of a coconut surgeons removed from a man's stomach

The largest kidney stones most doctors ever get to see is the size of a golf ball.

So surgeons in Hungary were taken aback when they removed a stone the size of a coconut from a man earlier today.

Sandor Sarkadi underwent an abdominal operation in Debrecen, 150 miles east of Budapest, after doctors discovered he had a kidney stone inside him that was 17 centimetres in diameter.

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Successful_Loser · Posted January 21st, 2009, 09:44 AM

Wow.. I have had a few kidney stones and they hurt like hell I can not ever imagine having that O.o

Zoe · Posted January 21st, 2009, 10:47 AM

Um... I'd like to call BS on this one. That stone is bigger than his bladder. He would've had other complications with the urinary tract long before the stone got to be this big.

-Ra- · Posted January 21st, 2009, 04:15 PM

Zoe, I was thinking the same thing. That's physically impossible.

Ra,

Sweet Kandi · Posted January 22nd, 2009, 11:53 PM

Just the thought of that makes me want to cry D: I had one that was only 6mm, and that caused me so much friggin pain >.<
True or not, that sucks.

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Successful_Loser New Member Posts: 28 Blog Entries: 1 LOLed 0 Times	#2 Posted January 21st, 2009, 09:44 AM Wow.. I have had a few kidney stones and they hurt like hell I can not ever imagine having that O.o

Zoe Senior Member Posts: 2,583 Blog Entries: 5 Thanked 434 Times LOLed 403 Times	#3 Posted January 21st, 2009, 10:47 AM Um... I'd like to call BS on this one. That stone is bigger than his bladder. He would've had other complications with the urinary tract long before the stone got to be this big.

-Ra- Senior Member Posts: 2,058 Thanked 445 Times LOLed 714 Times	#4 Posted January 21st, 2009, 04:15 PM Zoe, I was thinking the same thing. That's physically impossible. Ra,

Sweet Kandi Senior Member Posts: 617 Thanked 47 Times LOLed 93 Times	#5 Posted January 22nd, 2009, 11:53 PM Just the thought of that makes me want to cry D: I had one that was only 6mm, and that caused me so much friggin pain >.< True or not, that sucks.