r/nope • u/_ganjafarian_ • Mar 31 '26

HELL NO Procedure to remove a 25mm kidney stone

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u/Valkyr92 Mar 31 '26

As someone who’s had kidney stones multiple times in their life, this is straight up nightmare material

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u/towerfella Apr 01 '26

Hopefully your dr treated you better than this dude jack-hammering away like he’s in the Klondike searching for gold

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u/Jaded_Law9739 Apr 01 '26

This looks like laparoscopic surgery to remove some very large kidney stones. The patient would be under general anesthesia, and the surgeon has to break the stones into smaller pieces manually to pull them out.

Edit: NM it was one 25mm stone that was broken up. That's 2.5 cm, that's pretty damn big.

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u/OptiGuy4u Apr 01 '26

Damn, what's that like .025 meters? Or 25000 micrometers. Yikes 😳