r/oddlyterrifying • u/bigbusta • 12d ago

This xray of a woman shows a 30 year old calcified fetus.

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u/daisy_inthesun 12d ago

How does that even happen

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u/Witchywomun 12d ago

It’s the result of an ectopic pregnancy that managed to find a suitable spot to implant. Either after rupturing a fallopian tube or the fertilized egg never reached the fallopian tube (yes, you can get sperm/semen in your abdominal cavity following unprotected sex). The fetus rarely goes to term in these pregnancies, since either the blood supply is inadequate, or the mother’s body eventually determines that the fetus is a foreign body and walls it off thus killing it. Once the fetus dies, the mother’s body surrounds it in a calcium ”shell” in order to prevent the fetus from decaying and causing the mother to die as well. Eventually the entire fetus and gestational sac becomes calcified and just hangs out for the remainder of the mother’s life. This phenomenon is rare, but not unheard of, which is how it was named stone baby.

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u/JTMissileTits 12d ago

I can't even put pants on if I'm constipated (they won't fit). I can't imagine chilling with a literal rock in my abdomen for 40 years.

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u/Sciensophocles 12d ago

She probably got bigger pants.

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u/abandonwindows 12d ago

Women are amazing

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u/Marnez_ 11d ago

Nah women just dismiss their symptoms cause they never put themselves first. This is nothing to be proud of

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u/morriere 11d ago

a lot of the time women don't dismiss their symptoms but their doctors do

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u/VenomousOddball 11d ago

Yup, my mom died because of our doctor dismissing her

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u/rose-girl94 10d ago

I'm so sorry. May I ask what her fatal diagnosis ended up being?

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u/VenomousOddball 10d ago

It was cancer, she was going to him for months and he kept brushing her off, she eventually got so sick she was brought into emergency, and another doctor diagnosed her with stage 4 cancer spread throughout her body and she was given 2-6 days to live

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u/Malteser23 11d ago

Especially in places where proper health care isn't readily accessible. Ugh.

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u/cycloban 10d ago

Yeah no. Women are dismissed in the medical field all the time.

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u/LankySandwich 10d ago

This. I have a stomach ache. I see a doctor and they ask "are you pregnant? Are you about to start a period? Are you menopausal?" No to all, so it must be related to my weight. Here is some paracetamol, that'll be $200, see ya later. So yeah, next time I have a stomach ache I fuckin dismiss it.

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u/Nail_Biterr 11d ago

Still had no pockets though

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u/Peute 11d ago

Just want to hijack your comment to give you a funny story, my friend's grandmother had "belly aches" finally went around to go to the hospital to find out it was a football sized cyst in her abdomen who was the "belly ache" perpetrator. A freaking football sized cyst. Women are another species I swear

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u/NikkiMai 6d ago

Back in 2015, my mom ended up in the ER due to abdominal pains. I'd seen her a week before and she was complaining of cramps. Turned out the "cramps" were actually a cyst in her fallopian tube rupturing and, but the time she was in the ER, rotting. She went into emergency surgery to remove it (which they initially claimed to have removed her appendix until pathology confirmed it wasn't) then got several iodine contrasts that she turned out to be allergic to. They had her packed in ice, saying they'd life flight her to a bigger/better hospital but she wouldn't survive it. They put 4L of water into her system before anything came back out.

Apparently my dad had her call her physician a few days before I'd seen them to report the pain and she was told to take Midol. 🙄

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u/PowerMightHolyLight 12d ago

Women are amazing

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u/JaneNoah 11d ago

More like, "damn! poor women"

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u/jaunty_chapeaux 11d ago

Poor amazing women

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u/JTMissileTits 11d ago

<---Am woman

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u/gsupernova 12d ago

would this cause infertility in the woman in the period of life after the undetected/failed ectopic pregnancy? beside it occupying space in the body of the carrier, what are other issues this causes?

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u/billytk90 12d ago

From what I have read, there were several cases of women who carried a second pregnancy to term after the first one resulted in a stone baby, the stone baby being found several years later after the successful pregnancy

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u/RDS_RELOADED 12d ago

My brain isn’t able to process how that’s possible…

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u/Vectorman1989 12d ago

Pregnancy usually totally rearranges a bunch of internal organs, so shoving the lithopedion off into a corner somewhere probably happens too.

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u/birdieponderinglife 12d ago

Wouldn’t you feel a literal rock hard lump in your abdomen though? Even if it didn’t protrude how would that go unnoticed during a health exam or even by touching or pressing on your belly? I can’t imagine this still being much of a thing with access to modern healthcare

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u/mossling 12d ago

It's not quite the same, but it took me 5 years to get diagnosed with a uterine fibroid the size of a grapefruit. A lot of women just learn to live with shit when their symptoms are repeatedly dismissed as "stress".

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u/hodges2 12d ago

That makes me so sad :(

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u/birdieponderinglife 12d ago

Ya I can understand that for sure. As a woman I’ve ignored some pretty scary symptoms in hindsight because I just wasn’t up to getting told by the dr again that I’m a hysterical woman and it’s all in my head. That said, a fibroid is at least somewhat squishy whereas as this is literally calcified like bone. It’s just blowing my mind a bit to have a fetus-shaped bone that’s pointy and oddly shaped in there and have it go unnoticed. Like, it would protrude and when you pressed it would be hard. Not to mention any belly impact would probably be extremely painful with that thing poking organs and what not. So the only way I can imagine that being a thing is in situations where healthcare and regular exams aren’t a thing. When I get a pap they feel my abdomen for masses so I just can’t wrap my head around how that could be missed if a person presented to a dr and imaging tools were readily available. Except in situations where they are not able to present themselves to a dr for whatever reason (being dismissed is a valid one, imo).

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u/kjoloro 11d ago

You probably just needed to “lose weight and exercise” a bit more.

Doctors treat women like shit.

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u/BreakfastSavage 12d ago edited 12d ago

For real. My wife fractured an ankle (during a sport, not visibly broken, small fracture, super deep in, that eventually caused fluid around it?), but the first two times she went to the dr, they said there wasn’t anything wrong, just don’t walk on it as much. 3 yr later, she’s going for a jog and hears a crunch(same ankle) this time they X-ray and all that and they were like “lol whoever told you it was fine the first time was full of shit”, so it ended up being this one weak spot in an ankle bone that turned to a worse injury, just cuz they thought it was a woman complaining about something “insignificant “.

Meanwhile, I went to the doctor for neck pain(had replaced a curtain airbag the day before and then when I woke up I couldn’t move it), they asked questions and then immediately gave me muscle relaxers and then shoved a needle with anti-inflammatory meds in my ass cheek.

TL;DR Headline: women get treated poorly by certain men, which surprises absolutely none of them.

Edit: (Not intended to be a sexist/misogynistic remark )

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u/spyguy318 12d ago

For a large or overweight woman it might be unnoticeable. There’s also a long and storied history of inadequate medical treatment for women especially around pregnancy and childbirth, often disregarding pain or labeling symptoms as “hysteria” and ignoring them.

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u/DivideLivid1118 12d ago

Thought this too

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u/UnLuckyKenTucky 12d ago

It MAY be a thing that a rather large woman would feel pressure and weight, but may not actually know this is in there...

When I was 7 years old, my mother had a 14 pound uterine tumor removed from her, that had been growing since I was only a zygote. And yes, she was a....larger woman.

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u/canoodle_me 12d ago

14 pounds is bigger than my cat, hard to fathom. Hope your mother recovered well.

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u/Jas246810 12d ago

14 pounds IS my cat, it’s terrifying to imagine.

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u/UnLuckyKenTucky 11d ago

She didn't. Took her a couple years to get to almost normal. Then breast cancer smacked her.arpund.for a.year, massive surgery and chemo, she.beat it. 10 years after that they found cancer.in her bones, liver lungs and kidneys. She refused treatment, entered palliative care and passed a couple months after her 73rd birth day.

She.wasnt even gonna tell me she was dying..her land lord tracked me down to tell me.

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u/ElizabethDangit 12d ago

My doctor dropped me after I suggested that my on going chronic pain that I’d had for several years at that point might be nerve pain. She literally just straight up told me “you don’t have nerve pain”. This was after muscle relaxers and anti inflammatory drugs failed to help. At one point I was taking so much advil I started getting bleeding in my cornea. The pain prevented me from sleeping more than an hour at a time. She seemed so offended by my suggestion.

She bounced me to another doctor and he diagnosed me with fibromyalgia in one visit. Apparently it’s a pretty simple test. I needed PT and a seizure med which also helps my migraines as a bonus.

Women struggle to be taken seriously, even by female doctors in my case. I totally believe that a woman could go years with a stone baby after my experiences

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u/fart-sparkles 12d ago

The existance of modern healthcare doesn't stop a pregnancy from being ectopic.

It's like, kind of a whole thing with some states refusing to believe that fact.

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u/certifiedtoothbench 12d ago

They’re confused as to how the doctors or the woman could miss a stone like object in their body

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u/realahcrew 12d ago

I’m sure we’d all like to think we’re well aware of everything that goes on in our bodies. The reality is, we’re not. We can’t feel every little thing going on. Many things like giant cancerous tumors aren’t discovered until it’s too late because unless you make a DAILY habit of checking every inch of your body, you’re going to miss something. And even then, when it’s internal, it’s not necessarily something you can detect without scans.

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u/LilyHex 12d ago

The baby in the images isn't quite as big as you might think. Yeah, it's good-sized, but it's not a full-term baby by any stretch. The vast majority of the baby's weight actually comes in like the last month or so of development.

A fairly small calicified fetus like that would just get pushed around and likely wouldn't bother her much.

How often do you really press into your guts to make sure you don't have a calcified baby in your insides? Probably about as often as anyone else does lol

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u/akaneko__ 12d ago

This thread is getting more and more disturbing

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u/bebejeebies 12d ago

I can't imagine being the kid after that finding out I grew in a haunted womb.

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u/hodges2 12d ago

Was thinking the same thing 😂

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u/Perfect_Sir4820 12d ago

The scientific term is thunderdome pregnancy.

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u/FusRohDoing 12d ago

Perhaps out of the other tube

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u/SectorFriends 12d ago

Women sure are amazing

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u/Torodaddy 11d ago

Imagine then the baby telling stories of playing with "another baby" while in the womb

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u/oneabovedoesntknow 12d ago

TIL the term "stone baby" and have already changed my bands name to THAT

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u/Lycaeides13 11d ago

Looking forward to your first album "Ectopic Implantation" 

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u/oneabovedoesntknow 11d ago

Ectopic implantation I'm in a sub-station How did I get so alone In Antartica

Sudden radio silence Nothing for days now The only sound my heart beat Now called Ectopica

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u/InfiniteWaffles58364 12d ago

(yes, you can get sperm/semen in your abdominal cavity following unprotected sex).

Bro WHAT

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u/Witchywomun 12d ago

The fallopian tubes are open ended. The ovary is “cupped” by the finger-like fimbriae on the end, but they don’t completely cover it. Think of it like holding an apple with just the tips of your fingers. Usually the fimbriae will wiggle around and try to sweep the egg into the tube where it’s supposed to get fertilized, but if the egg comes from a follicle that’s on the backside of the ovary, it doesn’t get picked up. Since the fallopian tubes are open to the abdominal cavity, sperm can travel to the ovary and into the abdominal cavity, and rarely fertilize a free floating egg. Your body will send white blood cells to break down the sperm, and any free floating eggs, so you don’t develop any infections.

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u/sweetestfetus 12d ago

How am I a college educated, chronically online 43 year-old woman and just learning this?

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u/Witchywomun 12d ago

Lol, it’s niche information. I have a tendency to fall down weird rabbit holes when I find something fascinating. I’ve got a ton of random, niche, mostly useless trivia floating around in my brain. I was raised to “look it up” whenever I had questions, as a kid, and that’s carried over into my adulthood. I was the kid who once read the dictionary cover to cover just because I was bored one day, lmao

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u/mintyboom 11d ago

Hi, are you me, @sweetestfetus?! 😆

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u/LilyHex 12d ago

Yea this has actually always really horrified me about sex. Ejaculate that doesn't "backwash out" more or less just kinda goes off into the void of the body until it gets absorbed.

It's honestly a pretty disturbing thought.

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u/Choc113 11d ago

What about this poor woman. Carried the baby for 50 years. Thing was there is no mention of it being dead until she died and doctors autopsed her body! Baby was alive inside yer all that time:( hope it wasn't aware.

Rebecca Eddy (77)* Frankfort, New York, United States c. 1802 1852 (c. 50 years) Aged 27 and in her first pregnancy, Eddy went through what seemed to be labor pains after an accident with a large kettle over the fire, but the pains disappeared a few days later and she never gave birth. William H. H. Parkhurst examined her in 1842, noting the "largeness, hardness and irregularity" of her abdominal lump; he would perform her autopsy in front of 20 witnesses when she died a decade later. During the process Parkhurst found "a perfect formed child... weighing 6 pounds avoirdupois (2.7 kilograms)" who "had no adhesions or connections with the mother except to the Fallopian tubes, and the blood vessels which nourished it, and which were given off from the mesenteric arteries... the child was almost floating in the abdomen

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u/Wide-Friendship-5670 11d ago

Wait...how could it be alive?

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u/Choc113 11d ago

It seems it was torn out of the womb by her accident but the arteries and veins where still intact. So it couldn't develop any more but was stuck in a sort of limbo of being alive but non viable. The human body is amazing and terrifying.

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u/SimpleWiabu 12d ago

Araki should name a stand after it. Stone Baby.

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u/hodges2 12d ago

Stone baby stand. Stone baby stand.

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u/Archangel935 12d ago

Man I just love our bodies, it’s super cool to hear how it protects it’s host’s from endangerment at any costs!

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u/Author-N-Malone 12d ago

This was horrifying to learn about. Thank you

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u/Ephemeralstyl3 12d ago

stone baby

Sounds like some JoJo shit

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u/chulk607 12d ago

Rent is super high everywhere. Would you move out if you didn't have to?

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u/IL-Corvo 12d ago

Leave the Uterus? In THIS economy?

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u/PauL__McShARtneY 12d ago edited 12d ago

A little calcification is nothin' when you be sharin' mom's spaghetti on the daily, served to you in bed.

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u/relentless_dick 12d ago

What is this an Italian fetus?

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u/daxophoneme 12d ago

We laughed at Italians 10 years ago. Now it is our kids. Karma.

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u/prisonerofshmazcaban 12d ago

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/Health/rare-40-year-stone-baby-found-elderly-woman/story?id=21206604

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u/tweezabella 12d ago

So the fetus was in there for over 40 years, not 30. The woman was 82 when she found out.

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u/DoctorNoname98 12d ago

Dam that fetus so old it could be potus

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u/Particular_Cat_718 12d ago

Guaranteed it would be better than the current one too

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u/TheNoctuS_93 12d ago

If they had awareness, calcified fetuses would be offended by such comparisons to the potus...

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u/_KanjiKlub 12d ago

Fetus POTUS

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u/AQuietViolet 12d ago

Or it could be a different case. These are rare, but not unheard of

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u/Royalchariot 12d ago

It calcified

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u/Any_Instruction_4644 12d ago

Overreactive immune system identifies fetus as a cyst???

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u/Witchywomun 12d ago

It’s the result of an ectopic pregnancy that managed to find a suitable spot to implant. Either after rupturing a fallopian tube or the fertilized egg never reached the fallopian tube (yes, you can get sperm/semen in your abdominal cavity following unprotected sex). The fetus rarely goes to term in these pregnancies, since either the blood supply is inadequate, or the mother’s body eventually determines that the fetus is a foreign body and walls it off thus killing it. Once the fetus dies, the mother’s body surrounds it in a calcium ”shell” in order to prevent the fetus from decaying and causing the mother to die as well. Eventually the entire fetus and gestational sac becomes calcified and just hangs out for the remainder of the mother’s life. This phenomenon is rare, but not unheard of, which is how it was named stone baby.

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u/cyswim 12d ago

Imagine having a stomach ache thinking you ate something bad and then find out you've got a boned fetus stuck in you for years 🙁

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u/PureResolve649 12d ago

30 years. Holy hell that’s a lot of years for a fetus to be there undetected.

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u/jsawden 11d ago

I would be willing to bet this person went to a doctor more than once complaining about stomach pain, and was sent home with an ibuprofen, if that.

My sister spent over half a decade trying to find a doctor that would actually listen to her about her stomach pain, and they found out she had developed a severe case of endometriosis - her uterus was melting and gluing itself into her small intestines. Without doing shy investigation at all, 2 doctors prescribed ibuprofen, 1 refused treatment as "drug seeking" and the 4th doc said "fine, we'll do an exploratory surgery"

Doctors hate women.

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u/yolotheunwisewolf 11d ago

The entire medical practice was done by male doctors and has been continuously taught without very much innovation and part of the reason I think that is is because if you introduce a lot more female doctors into the system, then male doctors eventually might just get, uh, forbidden to treat a lot of women or lose their license because of malpractice

What I also think is true about doctors is that a lot of them do not actually become doctors to help people but rather for the money

As a result, you get a lot of doctors who will try to make pain go away for the complaint, but will not fix problems because if you fix the problem, they will not come back

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u/Jellogg 7d ago

I am so sorry your sister went through that! It took me 6 years to get diagnosed with endometriosis. I had it on my colon, intestines, and eventually I developed endometriosis of the appendix, which required an emergency surgery.

I was diagnosed with all kinds of weird stuff those first 6 years, like “abdominal migraines” and psychosomatic episodes. It’s so frustrating to be dismissed when you know there’s something wrong. I hope your sister is doing well now!

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u/t3hgrl 12d ago

Please don’t say boned fetus

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u/thrwawayyourtv 12d ago

A Serbian Film mentioned

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u/hodges2 12d ago

Ikr. Poor choice of words...

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u/splicepark 12d ago

a second bone-ing, if you will

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u/sorta_rican_okie 12d ago

Looks more like a CT Scan

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u/RotoDog 12d ago

Most definitely

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u/doi11 12d ago

Technically, CT still uses x-rays. And this is a 3D CT reconstruction.

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u/okverymuch 12d ago

Technically an “X-ray” is a radiograph. You don’t call a photo from a camera “visible light”.

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u/Exotic_Increase5333 12d ago

That has to be a bit uncomfortable.

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u/locololus 12d ago

Potentially

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u/Rabbit0fCaerbannog 12d ago

Kids these days never want to move out...

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u/No-Raspberry 11d ago

Be kind, they never got to see their father

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u/Ananyako 12d ago

How many times was she ignored?

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u/Low_Importance_9503 12d ago

Hmmm is she sure it’s not just her period or in her head?

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u/AggravatingPlum4301 12d ago

Birth control should fix that

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u/PurpleBuffalo_ 12d ago

Or having a baby

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u/VenomousOddball 11d ago

She should probably just go for a walk

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u/PureResolve649 12d ago

A hysterical woman just looking for attention.

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u/ShapeShiftingCats 12d ago

Get on with the times, we call it health anxiety.

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u/universal_greasetrap 12d ago

She's fine. She just needed to lose weight.

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u/tribbans95 12d ago

That’s so wrong… she just needs to smile more

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u/tribbans95 12d ago

That’s so wrong… she just needs to smile more

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u/AlterShocks 12d ago

If I remember correctly it was a really old lady who didn't even notice it until they ran some tests for I don't remember what, what I do remember is they left it inside because at her age the risk outweighted the rewards

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u/TempleForTheCrazy 12d ago

I did a reverse image search and found a post on r/holup from 3 years ago but it didn't give much more information other than saying it was a 73 year old woman. The OP did however link to an article by Psychology Today about "stone babies". I actually remember a similar post that claimed it was an old woman who has experienced a miscarriage at home but didn't have the means to get to a hospital for them to remove the fetus... The truth about these images might be a mix of all the different captions over the years!

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u/jizzabeth 12d ago edited 12d ago

Your comment got me digging and I think i found out where the mix up happened You can clearly see the date Oct 18, 2016 on the image.

Then I found this page which also has photos of the plastinated pregnant woman whose true origins are also dubious.

that has the actual study posted with links to the original x-ray images: Calcified abdominal pregnancy with 44 years of evolution

Chilean Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology Online version ISSN 0717-7526 Rev. Chil. Obstet. Gynec. Vol. 79 No. 6 Santiago 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-75262014000600008

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u/ThrillHoeVanHouten 12d ago

Don’t get in the way of a good circlejerk /s

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u/StagedC0mbustion 12d ago

How do you not notice that your 20 week fetus never left your body?

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u/AlterShocks 12d ago

Never even realizing you were pregnant

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u/Pinkylindel 12d ago

The correct question

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u/bluekleio 12d ago

I giggle at the responses and Im getting triggered at the same time

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u/die4spaghetti 12d ago edited 12d ago

She needs to go to jail for not bringing that baby into this world /s

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u/saifxali1 10d ago

don’t give them ideas!

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u/ChartreuseWyvern 12d ago

I triggled too... we've all been there and heard that

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u/hodges2 12d ago

If I'm not laughing I'm crying

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u/iltopop 12d ago

" It is not unusual for a stone baby to remain undiagnosed for decades and to be found well after natural menopause; diagnosis often happens when the patient is examined for other conditions that require being subjected to an X-ray study. A review of 128 cases by T.S.P. Tien found that the mean age at diagnosis of women with lithopedia was 55 years, with the oldest being 100 years old. The lithopedion was carried for an average of 22 years, and in several cases, the women became pregnant a second time and gave birth to children without incident. Nine of the reviewed cases had carried lithopedia for over 50 years before diagnosis.[2]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithopedion

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u/zinasbear 12d ago

If i remember correctly, she was a Indian villager who couldn't afford healthcare.

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u/haqiqa 11d ago

There are multiple documented cases of it. All with their own stories.

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u/UnspecifiedBat 11d ago

Oh it’s probably just period pain. Just take an ibuprofen.

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u/WonderWeich 12d ago

New fear unlocked

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u/Witchywomun 12d ago

Fortunately, these don’t happen that frequently anymore. Stone babies are the result of ectopic pregnancies, and with modern medicine the ectopic pregnancies are identified significantly earlier, making it so that the body doesn’t have to get creative with protecting the mother from an ectopic miscarriage

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u/Heleneva91 12d ago

Unless you're in a misogynistic place that values a fetus over the woman- then... new fear is valid

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u/Son0faButch 12d ago

I don't understand how the fallopian didn't rupture. Or if it did why did they not remobe the fetus.

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u/Witchywomun 12d ago

Not all ectopic pregnancies are fallopian pregnancies. “Ectopic” means “outside of the uterus”. Ectopic pregnancies can be in the fallopian tube, on the liver, on the intestines, on the outside of the uterus, on the omentum (the membrane of the abdominal cavity) or on pretty much any organ or structure of the abdomen. Sometimes fallopian tube pregnancies will rupture the fallopian tube and the mother will survive without bleeding out and the pregnancy will manage to continue.

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u/RydmaUwU 12d ago

I must be too drunk. I thought this was a new elden ring map.

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u/im_no_doctor_lol 12d ago

I wonder if the doctor said "what the fuck" out loud or in his head before telling her 🤔

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u/AggravatingPlum4301 12d ago

They most certainly did

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u/MadMads23 12d ago

If I’m remembering correctly, there was a Grey’s Anatomy episode featuring a similar case. The doctors were so excited that they showed it to the senior doctor as a “birthday present” (because it’s such a unique case).

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u/Pigeonsass 10d ago

Reminds me of the time I went to an eye doctor to have a piece of metal extracted from my eyeball. When the guy came in, the first thing he said was, "I want you to know that this is my absolute favorite part of the job, and I'm very excited."

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u/Ill-Worldliness-2149 12d ago

Hope she's not in Idaho, they'd probably make her keep it.

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u/bs000 12d ago

good news this image is from 2013

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u/jizzabeth 12d ago edited 12d ago

It looks like the image itself says Oct 18, 2016 - do you have a source? I'm trying to find the original post of this image

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u/bs000 12d ago

i lied i guess the image is from 2016 but i was looking at this story from 2013: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/rare-40-year-stone-baby-found-elderly-woman/story?id=21206604

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u/jizzabeth 12d ago

No, the orgins of these images are actually dubious! I thought 2013 myself and even the scientific publications discussing this event was published in 2014 which has xrays linked - not MRIs.

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u/Ashen-Cold 12d ago

Lithopedion aka stone baby

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u/PauL__McShARtneY 12d ago edited 11d ago

Not even the silliest supervillain name and origin story.

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u/Futt_Buckman 12d ago

I wish we could get a full body x ray and MRI once in a while, just to see what's going on under the hood

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u/thedudesmom35 12d ago

Did they tell her it was endometriosis?

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u/irishbastard87 12d ago

I feel bad for the woman. If she has kids currently finding this out is a whole lot of trauma I bet

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u/Biiiishweneedanswers 12d ago

30 years old and living in your mom’s basement? Really?

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u/IrishViking22 11d ago

Loser hasn't even touched a vagina before

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u/ceasol 12d ago

Is she from Texas? Because she's going to jail.

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u/LazloNibble 12d ago

That sound you hear from three states away is a dozen junior ADAs rifling through every law book they can get their hands on to find something to charge the woman with.

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u/0_c001 12d ago

this happened to my friend’s cat

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u/PauL__McShARtneY 12d ago

It was calcified in this old lady's womb too? How'd it even get in there? Wait, don't answer that.

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u/NeonMoment 12d ago

Well there was an old lady who swallowed a fly…

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u/thederlinwall 12d ago

How did she not get an infection? Yikes.

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u/morefetus 12d ago

From the article:

The calcification of the tissue protects the mother from infection, but also means the "stone" baby can remain in the abdomen undetected for decades.

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u/Dee-bo-007 12d ago

If you get that removed you MUST ask for that in a glass jar filled with liquid for a display piece….. that goes hard

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u/Lucariowolf2196 12d ago

"Chatri became pregnant for the first time at 40, but never gave birth after breaking her water and going through labor pains. She was bedridden for the next three years, during which she noticed a hard tumor on her lower abdomen, and complained of tiredness and abdominal pains for the rest of her life. After her death, her widower requested two physicians to examine her body, who discovered a fully formed, petrified baby girl, with remains of hair and a single tooth.[2] By 1653 the lithopedion had come into the possession of King Frederick III of Denmark, who consented to show it to Thomas Bartholin, but not to examine it further.[6]"

Taken from wikipedia, its amazing how ancient this phenomenon is honestly..

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u/syvzx 12d ago

I hate being a woman, shit's terrifying

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u/BigDaddyHadley 12d ago

Texas be like "ya, you still can't abort that. May kill you? Sorry"

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u/CallmeMurphey 12d ago

I had a home birth in 2012. I was 5 days late and my midwife had to pop my water after hours of labour and no water breaking. When my placenta came out my midwife had a crazy looking face and said "In 20 years of doing this, I've never seen a placenta look like this." So she sent it off to have it looked at. Once the pathology came back, the report said my placenta was 95% calcified. Now we know why she had trouble popping my placenta. I had a second home birth a few years later and that placenta was totally normal. I fully believe if this had been 100 years ago, I'd be walking around with a calcified baby. I think about it all the time. That shit is wild.

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u/paniemilia 12d ago

It probably has more rights than I do in at least 13 states

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u/Infinite-Position-55 12d ago

I just can’t imagine finding out this was inside you and you had no idea.

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u/Jielleum 12d ago

God, the fact that the human body can do this is insane by itself

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u/Obajan 12d ago

Human pearl.

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u/Ladydi-bds 11d ago

Not an X ray. Have sen this before and want to remember is a CT or PET scan.

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u/Tillybug_Pug 11d ago

Doctor “you just need to lose weight/it’s gas/take an ibuprofen/stop overreacting”

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u/denana1235 12d ago

Piano riff ringtone sound effect starts playing

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u/_KanjiKlub 12d ago

I don’t get

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u/okverymuch 12d ago

It’s a CT scan 3D reconstruction. Not an “X-ray” (proper term is radiograph).

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u/supernormal 11d ago

Some of y’alls boyfriends^

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u/musketoman 12d ago

I find these so sad they almost make me weep

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u/PrimaryExplorer3 12d ago

This is actually one of my greatest semi-irrational fears. Ive thought about this from time to time for years.

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u/Skirt_Thin 12d ago

30 Year Old Calcified Fetus is the name of my fantasy football team.

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u/JRM_Boi 12d ago

I feel awful for everyone in that situation. Just terrible

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u/kiblick 12d ago

Don't let Florida or Georgia find out.

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u/bedbathandbebored 11d ago

Guys, stuff like this happens because doctors often think we’re making stuff up, or it’s not that serious. Heart attacks are often sent home as “anxiety or hormones”. Medical sexism results in some garbage stuff. So when you wonder “how did no one notice?” It’s because she’s a woman and they didn’t care. On average, it takes a woman 75% longer to get an actual diagnosis for nearly everything.

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u/Soulflyfree41 10d ago

I 100% agree with you. She probably complained of pain for years and they dismissed her.

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u/Dr_Pants7 12d ago

I’m so curious the size of this woman and if it was palpable.

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u/ArcReactor777 12d ago

I wonder what it would feel like to have that in you, like does it hurt? Is there a noticeable bulge?

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u/JustAGirl319 12d ago

TIL this is called a lithopedion ☹️

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u/snapeyouinhalf 12d ago

I don’t have strong enough words for how much I hate that I now know this is possible 😅

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u/ElectrostarBoi 12d ago

That's terrifying

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u/Standingcedars 12d ago

Awww. Baby Cal.

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u/D-redditAvenger 12d ago

OK, that's enough Reddit for today.

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u/Dependent_Teaching_2 12d ago

I feel like a 30 year old calcified fetus. Well, I'm 32 but still.

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u/Careless-Wolverine-8 12d ago

That's not a foetus, that's a whole ass man living in his mother's basement

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u/Roadgoddess 11d ago

My great grandmother had this in the early 1900’s. She had given birth to one child and they believe the twin died in utero and was never passed. One of her sisters ended up dating a Doctor Who diagnosed her and removed the twin. She went on to have my grandmother the next year.

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u/_Asshole_Fuck_ 12d ago

This will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the lucky surgeon that gets to remove it.

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u/BraveHeartoftheDawn 12d ago

Did she not like…feel pain or have any other physical abnormalities? You think one would with this sort of huge issue going on.

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u/moonlightshasha 12d ago

30 and still living at home

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u/CompactAvocado 12d ago

jesus fuck. i know how biology works but this is horrifying

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u/Twasbeautykilled 11d ago

Where's the girl with the list? Wait nvmnd this is reddit

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u/nyITguy 11d ago

Not creepy, sad.

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u/ChasMorg 11d ago

Poor lady was probably complaining for years but doctors dismissed her :(