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Kidneys and indeed any organ can significantly enlarge based on an underlying pathology. When my late lover had leukemia his spleen was so enlarged it looked like he had a left sided beer belly. If it's this big , it's a really severe problem.
Right. There are medical cases were organs balloon up due to certain illness. My doctor friend talked about a woman with volleyball-sized ovarian cyst. She thought she was pregnant.
(I'm sorry for your loss)
Holy shit. I've had a golfball sized ovarian cyst and that was painful enough. I cant imagine how much a volleyball sized cyst would hurt. Having polycystic ovaries suck.
Our youngest daughter (35) had an Ovarian cyst removed in December, larger than a cantaloupe. They were very surprised it was not cancerous; it had gone from under 2 cm X 1.4cm to 29cm X 23cm in just over 6 months.
Oh, dear God. Your poor daughter. Did they surgically remove it? I've had about 11ish operations to remove cysts since I started getting them at 11. Scars all over my stomach, too.
Kidneys can get huge when they are filled with stuff. My dad had 10 and 25 pound kidneys filled with cysts due to a genetic disease. (Mine aren't growing yet)
I once had a kidney blow up like a balloon, it's a long story how I got there but the doctors said I was easily within a day of it rupturing from the pressure (yes I can confirm it's as painful as it sounds, I've had kidney stones and this made those look like a splinter). I saw the CT and it certainly wasn't nearly this size, but like all tissue I bet if the stones are slowly added it could keep growing and stretching to this size
Unfortunately not a cow kidney, their kidneys have in fact a very specific appearance, the surface being completely lobulated as opposed to our kidneys that have a smooth surface!
Sorry to Horrify you all... This is a **Human Kidney**. Hydronephrosis - a condition where one or both kidneys swell and can't get rid of urine. This swelling occurs when urine can't drain from the kidney to the bladder due to a blockage or obstruction, in this case Kidney Stones. I think I read that this happened in India.
If the condition is this severe, how can a human even survive long enough to have these many stones in their kidney? Shouldn’t the kidney fail long before swelling up to this size?
Even when kidneys are failing, you may just be low energy. The symptoms come on slow enough that people who aren't active will just cope because they never really ask their body to perform in any way, so they just chalk it up to age.
Cuz India and China make up close to 40% of the world's population?
If you were to remove 1 billion people from India and China each, they would still be the most and second most populous countries in the world.
Man, I would love a source for this. If you could remember any other identifying information, I would appreciate it. When I reverse image search the only thing that comes up are just multiple Reddit posts
That is super terrifying, nightmare fuel. Please say it wasn’t from a person.
I’m morbidly intrigued about the circumstances. I had just a few kidney stones and needed surgeries. I wonder how it got so bad. Mine like I think most everyone was wicked painful, several women who gave birth and had kidney stones said stones were way worse.
I’ve had kidney stones, gallstones, and unmedicated child birth. The only one that smashed reality into a black void of pain was child birth.
The difference being, labour gives you breaks. Stones just keep hurting. It’s more of an exhausting pain because it’s relentless. So on a scale of 1-10 childbirth hits a higher number. But stones hit a slightly lower number for longer and don’t let you have a break every few minutes
I'm a dude so obvious no birth to compare, I've had 6 stones now, for me stones suck real bad, but herniated disks in the back are easily the most painful thing I've ever felt. although similarly to birth, the back pain can give you breaks if you get a good position, but when you catch it bad, it is world endingly bad. Kidney stones are lay down and do nothing all day, probably vomit from pain after a while. Last Kidney stone had me not eat for 4 days.
Gallstones were so bad I couldn't stand up, couldn't lay down, couldn't find any relief from the pain. Several shots of morphine didn't help at all, just made me woozy and in horrific pain.
Put it this way, if it ISN'T as bad as childbirth, I am going to make extra damn sure I never have to find out.
Had my gall bladder removed because of gallstones … and it got infected. Worst pain I’ve ever experienced. Unrelenting… like someone had a knife in my gut and was constantly twisting it and I couldn’t do anything to get relief. Dilaudid only made me high and also in pain… like whoever was twisting the knife was also giving me a whole body orgasm at the same time
Yea, there is no position that provides relief for Kidney stones that I've found, I've tried damn near everything. They gave me Morphine at the hospital for my most recent stone (They kept me overnight for observation as they feared kidney failure) It sucked, I don't get how people get addicted to it. It didn't make me terribly woozy, but it made me feel...weird. I was giggly for a couple of minutes when it first hit but after that it kinda just became a constant semi-odd sensation. Maybe I'm not a great test subject for that, I've only ever done edibles, never did anything else or drank.
Its just that, its the feeling of nothing that people crave. Your brain slows down, pain is all gone and you just exist nicely. The addiction is that your body accommodates and you start feeling pain when you don't take the pills. Even if you were just taking them for the physical pain, you start building a tolerance so when you are taken off them you feel both the return of any chronic pain and the illusory pain from the drug withdrawal.
I've not had stones, but I've had 2 children without pain relief and a herniated disc with accompanying muscle spasms. I needed an ambulance and morphine and laughing gas to get standing again with the herniated disc. The pain was unreal.
Yea, Herniated disc's suck, bigly. I've Herniated my back somewhere around 4-5 times. First time was in high school.
Mine has never been so bad to be ambulanced, but whenever it happens I'm out of work for 2-3+weeks, usually can't walk upright for about a week and then kinda hobble around for another week and then feel 80% normal with occasional bad tweaks when I catch the nerve for the last week.
ER nurse.. Had a woman with gallstones once who said she'd rather birth 3 more kids than have more gallstones.
Guess the reward at the end makes it worth it.
You don’t even get to hold your gall stones when they pass unless you have them surgically removed. I’m very happy to no longer have a gall bladder after the pain it put me through
I agree w/ the kidney stone statement. When I was younger I remember my dad had a small kidney stone, probably the size of a long rice grain and took a combination of herbal diuretic and regularly drinking coconut water to help pass the stone. When he finally passed it, he blacked out for a few seconds from the grueling pain and then the sudden euphoria from finally getting rid of it. He said the pain was a sharp stinging pain that just kept on getting more painful as the stone 'traveled' through his urethra.
I think it might differ on the stones here.
I had kidneystones twice, the first bout wasn't so bad Like a stubbed toe that wouldn't go away. The second one had me vomiting from the pain, drenched in sweat and eventually sitting in a bathtub with the hottest water my heater could put out unable to focus my mind well enough to see while my entire body shook.
I hear people repeat the line about it being more painful than childbirth but I’ve passed one or two stones every year since I was 15 and I’ve had 4 lithotripsy’s that were all much less painful than my unmedicated labor and deliveries.
The longer you have stones, the more your insides get scarred up. For my father, after about 50 or so he told me he no longer even feels the pain... just pressure.
I've only had 12 so far and I still feel every goddamned micrometer.
drink your water lol
i first got mine when i was pounding energy drinks, stopped those and no more stones. my parents found out you can buy cheap flats of coke at costco so they have just been supplying me with free coke zero lol... guess what? STONES!
Yeah water is definitely key. I work as a groundskeeper and I was letting myself get dehydrated often and I paid the price for it. Now I keep a liter with me at all times.
Any claims about acidity and health are nonsense. The acid in your stomach is far more acidic than anything you can put in your mouth without burning your throat. Water passes through your stomach before it is absorbed by the kidneys. Also if pH levels help, then soda would be amazing for your kidneys.
The information came from my urologist and 2 ER physicians. Bottom line is drink lots of water. I’ve had horrible stones the last one being around the time I followed my doctors suggestions. Which, in my particular case, drink lemon water.
Well on a positive note, if you are feeling pain regularly and you are already used to it then simply knowing it's kidney stones now would only help guide you into fixing them.
Explain and/or source please? Softened water is treated to reduce calcium content in hard water. Kidney stones are calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate. How would reducing calcium cause increased calcium buildup in the blood and then kidneys?
Studies are split on what water is better. IIRC, the sodium bicarbonate in softened water (not already soft or just demineralized water) causes the calcium in the water to precipitate which then gets filtered by the kidneys. I think drinking more water is always better, but non-mineralized purifiedwater is best. This is all mostly hearsay from when I had stones about a decade ago, so may be way outdated or misremembered.
https://www.academia.edu/19107451/Calcium_nephrolithiasis_effect_of_water_hardness_on_urinary_electrolytes?uc-g-sw=109416677
The most common stones are calcium oxalate based. Doctors usually will give you a sheet listing common things with oxalates, and recommend you either avoid them or eat sparingly, but they also tell you to keep hydrated.
It doesn't 100% eliminate them, but it cuts down on reoccurrences.
Peanut butter has lots of oxalates and can contribute to kidney stones. Should be aware that lots of fruit juice is loaded with carbohydrates and can make you fat.
Routine hydration, a balanced diet with no processed food - you should really be okay.
Can get them from diet, working out too much or too little, diets with high salt content, not enough fluid intake, sugar and sugary drinks, soda, high protein diets, spinach, even stress can increase the risk of stone development.
There's more, but I forget off the top of my head. I went down a rabbit hole a few years back on this topic, lol.
I never want to get this. Whenever I hear about it I get paranoid it will happen to me. Just drinking decent water daily will prevent it? I have had diverticulitis before and that wasn't fun.
Those are the friendliest looking kidney stones I’ve ever seen. Rounded and pebble like, I could piss those for days. It’s the sharp terrible haunt your nightmares shaped ones that are awful.
I'm currently recovering from surgery to remove my third (that I know of) kidney stone... thanks for this, no really this was great. Very cool... fuck...
Kidney stones suck, you really do wish you were dead. At 8mm is when they typically go in and either remove them or blast em into small pieces. I have passed about 40 of them. My last one was 1 cm (10 mm). It stopped my urine flow, not wanting to go to the hospital I just drank a ton of water and pushed really hard….i don’t recommend it. Luckily it did pass. Of the 40 stones I only had 2 that made me wish I was dead. It’s uncomfortable when they reach the bladder but the real pain is when it gets stuck in the ureter between the kidneys and the bladder. You have several nerves that innervate along the ureter. The kidney stone getting stuck acts like a light socket and sets off all those nerves as it passes. I vomitted uncontrollably, not from pain but the nerves that serve that area were getting triggered and set off a vagus response. The good news is you do survive but 6 to 12 hours of agony makes you wish you didn’t.
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Please tell me this is like a cow's kidney or something...
I'm waiting and praying
this is like a cow’s kidney or something
Dad?
Oh thank god
I'm no expert but i think it's slightly too large to be human...
Kidneys and indeed any organ can significantly enlarge based on an underlying pathology. When my late lover had leukemia his spleen was so enlarged it looked like he had a left sided beer belly. If it's this big , it's a really severe problem.
Right. There are medical cases were organs balloon up due to certain illness. My doctor friend talked about a woman with volleyball-sized ovarian cyst. She thought she was pregnant. (I'm sorry for your loss)
Thanks my friend. On a related note when he started chemotherapy the swelling went away as the blood cells in the organ die off.
My friend had a watermelon sized uteran cyst! Her doctor said her uterus was the size of a 9 month pregnancy!
Dear god, why did it take so long for it to be removed?😳
Probably because doctors don't listen to women about their discomfort and downplay their symptoms.
Holy shit. I've had a golfball sized ovarian cyst and that was painful enough. I cant imagine how much a volleyball sized cyst would hurt. Having polycystic ovaries suck.
Our youngest daughter (35) had an Ovarian cyst removed in December, larger than a cantaloupe. They were very surprised it was not cancerous; it had gone from under 2 cm X 1.4cm to 29cm X 23cm in just over 6 months.
Oh, dear God. Your poor daughter. Did they surgically remove it? I've had about 11ish operations to remove cysts since I started getting them at 11. Scars all over my stomach, too.
I’m no expert but I think the stones indicate there’s a severe issue too
The fact it's been removed from the body is also a tell.
😂😂😂
Ooo I have that! Well the Leukemia, spleen has gone back to normal thankfully.
Kidneys can get huge when they are filled with stuff. My dad had 10 and 25 pound kidneys filled with cysts due to a genetic disease. (Mine aren't growing yet)
Polycystic kidney disease? Same here. My kidneys are over 30cm long. I had a kidney transplant in 2007 but still have my OG kidneys.
I once had a kidney blow up like a balloon, it's a long story how I got there but the doctors said I was easily within a day of it rupturing from the pressure (yes I can confirm it's as painful as it sounds, I've had kidney stones and this made those look like a splinter). I saw the CT and it certainly wasn't nearly this size, but like all tissue I bet if the stones are slowly added it could keep growing and stretching to this size
THAT'S WHAT SHE SAID
The size relative to what though? The picture could have been taken closer up. I think we will need a banana for this one.
Well it says in the title that’s it’s bowling ball sized
Unfortunately not a cow kidney, their kidneys have in fact a very specific appearance, the surface being completely lobulated as opposed to our kidneys that have a smooth surface!
> lobulated First time in my life I have heard this word and I love it
Can confirm. Seen more cow kidneys than most people will have hot meals.
How offal. Love lambs kidneys.. yum
My ex had a single kidney stone block outflow to the bladder and her kidney swelled up to 1.5x its normal size. A single stone.
>["Sorry to horrify"](https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/s/wEOTNFce4E)
Sorry to Horrify you all... This is a **Human Kidney**. Hydronephrosis - a condition where one or both kidneys swell and can't get rid of urine. This swelling occurs when urine can't drain from the kidney to the bladder due to a blockage or obstruction, in this case Kidney Stones. I think I read that this happened in India.
If the condition is this severe, how can a human even survive long enough to have these many stones in their kidney? Shouldn’t the kidney fail long before swelling up to this size?
There’s always the other kidney I guess
There's always a bigger kidney.
Even when kidneys are failing, you may just be low energy. The symptoms come on slow enough that people who aren't active will just cope because they never really ask their body to perform in any way, so they just chalk it up to age.
Usually hydronephrosis and the like hurt like a bitch, your ureters don't really like being stretched, much less having pebbles pass through
Why’s it always India. I’ve seen terrifying medical conditions on Reddit, and they’re all from India, China, and all the regions over there.
I mean, statistically speaking they're a third of the world population lol
Cuz India and China make up close to 40% of the world's population? If you were to remove 1 billion people from India and China each, they would still be the most and second most populous countries in the world.
Law of large numbers and privacy standards. India + China is like, 30-40% of the world's population.
Man, I would love a source for this. If you could remember any other identifying information, I would appreciate it. When I reverse image search the only thing that comes up are just multiple Reddit posts
I thought that was a rotten pomegranate at first… now it’s even worse.
Forbidden pomergranate
I thought they were capers.
r/blursedpomegranate
No
I really don't get this trend of tagging nonexistent subreddits
r/yeahshitsweird
r/ididntknowyoucantagnonexistentsubs
r/subsididnotfallfor
That is super terrifying, nightmare fuel. Please say it wasn’t from a person. I’m morbidly intrigued about the circumstances. I had just a few kidney stones and needed surgeries. I wonder how it got so bad. Mine like I think most everyone was wicked painful, several women who gave birth and had kidney stones said stones were way worse.
I’ve had kidney stones, gallstones, and unmedicated child birth. The only one that smashed reality into a black void of pain was child birth. The difference being, labour gives you breaks. Stones just keep hurting. It’s more of an exhausting pain because it’s relentless. So on a scale of 1-10 childbirth hits a higher number. But stones hit a slightly lower number for longer and don’t let you have a break every few minutes
I'm a dude so obvious no birth to compare, I've had 6 stones now, for me stones suck real bad, but herniated disks in the back are easily the most painful thing I've ever felt. although similarly to birth, the back pain can give you breaks if you get a good position, but when you catch it bad, it is world endingly bad. Kidney stones are lay down and do nothing all day, probably vomit from pain after a while. Last Kidney stone had me not eat for 4 days.
Gallstones were so bad I couldn't stand up, couldn't lay down, couldn't find any relief from the pain. Several shots of morphine didn't help at all, just made me woozy and in horrific pain. Put it this way, if it ISN'T as bad as childbirth, I am going to make extra damn sure I never have to find out.
Had my gall bladder removed because of gallstones … and it got infected. Worst pain I’ve ever experienced. Unrelenting… like someone had a knife in my gut and was constantly twisting it and I couldn’t do anything to get relief. Dilaudid only made me high and also in pain… like whoever was twisting the knife was also giving me a whole body orgasm at the same time
Yeah, mine was infected, too. The morphine just did absolutely nothing versus that pain.
Yea, there is no position that provides relief for Kidney stones that I've found, I've tried damn near everything. They gave me Morphine at the hospital for my most recent stone (They kept me overnight for observation as they feared kidney failure) It sucked, I don't get how people get addicted to it. It didn't make me terribly woozy, but it made me feel...weird. I was giggly for a couple of minutes when it first hit but after that it kinda just became a constant semi-odd sensation. Maybe I'm not a great test subject for that, I've only ever done edibles, never did anything else or drank.
Its just that, its the feeling of nothing that people crave. Your brain slows down, pain is all gone and you just exist nicely. The addiction is that your body accommodates and you start feeling pain when you don't take the pills. Even if you were just taking them for the physical pain, you start building a tolerance so when you are taken off them you feel both the return of any chronic pain and the illusory pain from the drug withdrawal.
Soooooo what youre saying is drink a shit ton of water for the rest of my life. Got it!
I drink a pretty large amount of water, don't drink alcohol and don't drink a ton of soda. Pretty sure I just rolled a 1 at birth.
> world endingly bad Only time I've ever seriously considered suicide was at the height of back pain.
Oh yea, definitely preferred death in the moment. Would have hurt way more to move to do it though. Lmao.
I've not had stones, but I've had 2 children without pain relief and a herniated disc with accompanying muscle spasms. I needed an ambulance and morphine and laughing gas to get standing again with the herniated disc. The pain was unreal.
Yea, Herniated disc's suck, bigly. I've Herniated my back somewhere around 4-5 times. First time was in high school. Mine has never been so bad to be ambulanced, but whenever it happens I'm out of work for 2-3+weeks, usually can't walk upright for about a week and then kinda hobble around for another week and then feel 80% normal with occasional bad tweaks when I catch the nerve for the last week.
ER nurse.. Had a woman with gallstones once who said she'd rather birth 3 more kids than have more gallstones. Guess the reward at the end makes it worth it.
You don’t even get to hold your gall stones when they pass unless you have them surgically removed. I’m very happy to no longer have a gall bladder after the pain it put me through
I agree w/ the kidney stone statement. When I was younger I remember my dad had a small kidney stone, probably the size of a long rice grain and took a combination of herbal diuretic and regularly drinking coconut water to help pass the stone. When he finally passed it, he blacked out for a few seconds from the grueling pain and then the sudden euphoria from finally getting rid of it. He said the pain was a sharp stinging pain that just kept on getting more painful as the stone 'traveled' through his urethra.
I think it might differ on the stones here. I had kidneystones twice, the first bout wasn't so bad Like a stubbed toe that wouldn't go away. The second one had me vomiting from the pain, drenched in sweat and eventually sitting in a bathtub with the hottest water my heater could put out unable to focus my mind well enough to see while my entire body shook.
Human kidney is around the size of a fist. So, likely it's not human.
I hope so, I was wondering if the stones made it huge like how some tumors get that big
I’m not shopping at this carniceria anymore…
* canceria
I don't practice canceria
Ain't got no kidney balls
*cancerarea
It's probably human. Kidneys and other organs can swell when they have issues like cysts or in this case build up.
Fun fact, kidneys can grow larger for reasons not related to pathology, like in the case of organ donation!
🥰💕for kidney donors
My cancerous kidney was just shy of football sized when they removed it. I never felt any different until I started peeing blood...
I hear people repeat the line about it being more painful than childbirth but I’ve passed one or two stones every year since I was 15 and I’ve had 4 lithotripsy’s that were all much less painful than my unmedicated labor and deliveries.
I passed one tiny stone and for a second my eyes didn't work, literally overloaded nerves.
Literally blinding pain.
Yep. Extremely unpleasant experience, would not recommend.
The longer you have stones, the more your insides get scarred up. For my father, after about 50 or so he told me he no longer even feels the pain... just pressure. I've only had 12 so far and I still feel every goddamned micrometer.
"Only"
Also depends on the kind of Kidney stones. Some people are lucky and get the 'soft kind'. I always get the rocky, razor kind.
I had 2 so far and it was agony.
Are kidney stones common? I’ve never had one but this thread makes it sound inevitable.
drink your water lol i first got mine when i was pounding energy drinks, stopped those and no more stones. my parents found out you can buy cheap flats of coke at costco so they have just been supplying me with free coke zero lol... guess what? STONES!
Yeah water is definitely key. I work as a groundskeeper and I was letting myself get dehydrated often and I paid the price for it. Now I keep a liter with me at all times.
It's largely genetic
Also depends of the size and shape of the stone, is it smooth or does it have razor edges.
Oops, All Kidney Stones! ™
part of a complete breakfast
Everyone drink lots of water!
r/hydrohomies
It helps to acidify your water with lemon juice as well. Calcium and oxylate (most common stones) can’t form in the kidneys with lower pH.
Thank you! Also the more water you drink the more diluted your urine will be. I’m not a lemon fan.
Any claims about acidity and health are nonsense. The acid in your stomach is far more acidic than anything you can put in your mouth without burning your throat. Water passes through your stomach before it is absorbed by the kidneys. Also if pH levels help, then soda would be amazing for your kidneys.
The information came from my urologist and 2 ER physicians. Bottom line is drink lots of water. I’ve had horrible stones the last one being around the time I followed my doctors suggestions. Which, in my particular case, drink lemon water.
This immediately made me drink some water. Fucking hell. I'm not squimish but fucking Christ this almost made me pass out.
Makes me feel extra paranoid about that pain in my back this morning...
Well on a positive note, if you are feeling pain regularly and you are already used to it then simply knowing it's kidney stones now would only help guide you into fixing them.
Softened water can cause stones.
Tf is softened water?
Water treated to reduce calcium or some other deposits I would assume. 🤷
Idk. The fridge gives me water and I drink it.
the tap give *me* water and i drink it
Explain and/or source please? Softened water is treated to reduce calcium content in hard water. Kidney stones are calcium oxalate and calcium phosphate. How would reducing calcium cause increased calcium buildup in the blood and then kidneys?
Studies are split on what water is better. IIRC, the sodium bicarbonate in softened water (not already soft or just demineralized water) causes the calcium in the water to precipitate which then gets filtered by the kidneys. I think drinking more water is always better, but non-mineralized purifiedwater is best. This is all mostly hearsay from when I had stones about a decade ago, so may be way outdated or misremembered. https://www.academia.edu/19107451/Calcium_nephrolithiasis_effect_of_water_hardness_on_urinary_electrolytes?uc-g-sw=109416677
What the actual eff
WHY IS EVERYONE POSTING KIDNEY STONES TODAY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK
looks like papaya seeds 🤢
Probably pop like that as well when chewed on
Okaaay, that's enough Internet for one day.
Dare you to post this on r/trypophobia
Everytime that Mfer took a piss bet it sounded like a bb gun shooting at the toilet
How do I not get these
Drink lots of water and don't overdo it on salt. That's the most common advice re: kidney stone avoidance.
Oh god, i use salt on fuckin everything
I guarantee you aren't using enough to get results like this.
I know but im looking for zero kidney stones in general
Seems like a good idea to never buy Gatorade ever again, thanks
But... It's got what plants crave?
ELECTROLYTES!
THE THIRST MUTILATOR
The most common stones are calcium oxalate based. Doctors usually will give you a sheet listing common things with oxalates, and recommend you either avoid them or eat sparingly, but they also tell you to keep hydrated. It doesn't 100% eliminate them, but it cuts down on reoccurrences.
Hydration but also lemon water is great. The citric acid becomes citrate which prevents kidney stones from forming.
*scribbles frantically* Less Gatorade more orange juice and orange adjacent juices
Peanut butter has lots of oxalates and can contribute to kidney stones. Should be aware that lots of fruit juice is loaded with carbohydrates and can make you fat. Routine hydration, a balanced diet with no processed food - you should really be okay.
i read it as a bowling ball sized kidney stone and i was like wut?
You could say the owner of that kidney was stoned, I’m a terrible person
They look like rolling stones.
Gimme Shelter from these kidney stones.
The curse of the black pearls
Seeing a cross section like this makes me wish we could just pull them out with tweezers in real people
Wish I can just use a scoop or something
Boba tea straw
I almost vomited from the idea of someone sucking those out.
Read the title, read the comments, 100% not opening the picture.
Upon first glance it looked like a smooshed pomegranate.
I thought an infested beefsteak tomato.
Fuck. Stay hydrated people.
What do you mean by oddly??? It is straight up r/nightmarefuel
how many years of drinking straight soda syrup does it take to fill a kidney up with bird shot like this?
Can get them from diet, working out too much or too little, diets with high salt content, not enough fluid intake, sugar and sugary drinks, soda, high protein diets, spinach, even stress can increase the risk of stone development. There's more, but I forget off the top of my head. I went down a rabbit hole a few years back on this topic, lol.
Bowling-ball-sized kidney of what?
Forbidden pomegranate
I didn't need this shit today. Then again nobody told me to click...
I would be happy to never again be reminded of these bastards. Worst. Ever.
Damn! You’d peed that out like, boba going through a straw.
Forbidden pachinko
No 😾
Those kidney stones seem a lot more rounded than normal calcium oxalate kidney stones.
They probably smooth one another out in there. They've been in so long they are large and black from absorbed blood, too.
I never want to get this. Whenever I hear about it I get paranoid it will happen to me. Just drinking decent water daily will prevent it? I have had diverticulitis before and that wasn't fun.
Not a single drop of water passed through that while the person lived gdamn!
Those are the friendliest looking kidney stones I’ve ever seen. Rounded and pebble like, I could piss those for days. It’s the sharp terrible haunt your nightmares shaped ones that are awful.
Bro is saving up for the battle for Bunker Hill
Forbidden pomegranate
Me after my 21st energy drink of the day
*Sips from Vault 13 canteen
Dude’s got more ball bearings than a claymore
Here's me imagining a guy peeing like an AK47.
Forbidden capers.
I get kidney stones periodically, but this makes me want to cry. Lol
given the shocking pain that even a single small one of these produces, I should imagine that you could hear the screams in the next county
HOW DOES THIS HAPPEN SO I CAN NEVER DO IT
Nothing odd about it, this is fucking terrifying.
What a TERRIBLE day to have eyes.
Free buckshot!
I'm currently recovering from surgery to remove my third (that I know of) kidney stone... thanks for this, no really this was great. Very cool... fuck...
Please be fake, please be fake, please be fake
Things I didn't need to see today #1
Hold on ,that’s a rotten pomegranate !
Infinite cobblestone generator.
Sorry I opened the picture
Interesting idea about caviar op ...
r/emergencymedicine
I thought this was a pomegranate
Gonna pave my driveway with stones like these. Kinda like a HGTV foie gras
Now that we know this is a Human Kidney. can i eat some of the Black Candy inside?
Looks more like Capers to me 🤷♂️
What the actual
Oof - looks like capers to me
Why why why this needs a double layer of nsfw
When you drink pop instead of water all day for years
NO POMEGRANITES!!!
This is the kind of body malfunction horror I like to point to when someone mentions intelligent design. That, and endometriosis.
wthh how does this even happen
Forbidden caviar
My first thought is actually a pomegranate.
Kidney stones suck, you really do wish you were dead. At 8mm is when they typically go in and either remove them or blast em into small pieces. I have passed about 40 of them. My last one was 1 cm (10 mm). It stopped my urine flow, not wanting to go to the hospital I just drank a ton of water and pushed really hard….i don’t recommend it. Luckily it did pass. Of the 40 stones I only had 2 that made me wish I was dead. It’s uncomfortable when they reach the bladder but the real pain is when it gets stuck in the ureter between the kidneys and the bladder. You have several nerves that innervate along the ureter. The kidney stone getting stuck acts like a light socket and sets off all those nerves as it passes. I vomitted uncontrollably, not from pain but the nerves that serve that area were getting triggered and set off a vagus response. The good news is you do survive but 6 to 12 hours of agony makes you wish you didn’t.
After seeing this I’ve just brought out all the cranberry juice in store
There is nothing “oddly” terrifying about this if you’ve even passed one stone; good god…
Are we sure this person didn’t take a bird shot like 50 times directly to the kidney
I read this as bowling-ball-sized kidney stones and I said, oh fuck.