It's been a decade or something since the first (and last) time I experienced the pain of a passing gallstone.
Nothing major, it was probably super tiny. Now the pain wasn't that bad, I'd probably give it a 6 out of 10. I guess the bigger the stone the more insufferable it is.
After doing a quick Google search, it seems like the average gallstone is just 5 to 10mm in diameter and 5 to 10 grams in weight. Yeah, small.
With that in mind, here's the fun trivia I learnt today.
The record for biggest gallstone ever reported in medical literature belongs to a gallstone that was 6.29 kg or 13 lb 14 oz. That's way bigger than an average baby, lol!
It was removed from an 80-year-old woman by Dr Humphrey Arthure (UK) at Charing Cross Hospital, London on 29 December 1952.
Unfortunately I couldn't find a photo of it so here's the next best thing, a huge gallstone of only...278 g
I can only imagine how big a 6+ kg gallstone could be... That's like 24 times bigger then the stone depicted above!
Gallstone? More like gallboulder 😂😂😂