Man with world's largest kidney stone wins Guinness World Record

The Jerusalem Post ^ | June 22, 2023 | Staff

[one guy in new jersey]

Everybody must get stoned.

[Mean Daddy]

Can’t imagine. I had three that couldn’t be pulverized so they had to go through my back to get to them.

[Skywise]

The man was reported to have said “made it myself!”

[JustaTech]

Article with pix and x-rays.

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2023/6/worlds-largest-and-heaviest-kidney-stone-removed-from-sri-lankan-man-753054

[Larry Lucido]

[43north]

That’s a whopper! I knew a surgeon who ha a gallstone he removed from a woman in the central valley of California that was the size of a medium potato. It was encased in plexiglass.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Try to pass that sucker!

[EandH Dad]

20 mm was my personal record. Don’t want another one.

[metmom]

Not a record I would want to break.

I’d rather be in the Guinness Book of Records for something less unpleasant.

[nwrep]

Why always those South Asians? Indians, Pakis, Sri Lankans? Why do they have such big stones? Answer: Inferior diet and lack of high quality fiber.

[doorgunner69]

Sri Lanka, Pok-e-stan, and India?

Nah, no connection there.

[Clutch Martin]

I wonder if he will keep it in a Mason jar full of formaldehyde on his fireplace mantle.

[Clutch Martin]

A human pearl

[econjack]

I suffer from kidney stones and there is no way that thing ever left the kidney. I’ve had two surgeries to remove stones that were too big for lithotripsy, which involves removing them through your back. That stone could only have been removed surgically.

[doorgunner69]

I can see fiber for intestinal stuff, but urinary?

[bgill]

Ouch.

[oldteen]

No thanks.

[mabarker1]

(((Stone PING)))

[krogers58]

I had one an inch around, but nothing like this. The procedure is known as a PCNL (PerCutaneous Nephro-Llithotomy) and it sucks. Too big to crush with sound.