Doctors remove 382 stones from woman’s gallbladder

This redefined getting stoned.

Doctors in India were flabbergasted after extracting 382 stones from the gallbladder of a woman who’d been complaining of back pain for months.

The patient, named Yashoda Bai, from Harraiya village, Vijayraghavgarh, first realized something was awry after experiencing severe pain in her back, Jam Press reported. She’d also been suffering chest pain, but was unaware of the cause.

Little did she know, her bile bag was filled with rocks like a human pebble fountain.

She initially reported to a local physician for pain relief, but her family decided to take her to the hospital to get to the root of the problem.

A subsequent sonography scan revealed that Bai’s bladder harbored a whopping 382 stones in her gall bladder — with some measuring up to 1 centimeter across.

Called gallstones, these gastrointestinal interlopers are actually “hardened deposits of digestive fluid that can form in your gallbladder,” per the Mayo Clinic.

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They generally occur when the bile’s cholesterol levels become too high and the excess cholesterol forms hard deposits, which can range in size from smaller than a sand grain to as large as a golf ball.

Meanwhile, some people only develop one of these rock-like infiltrators, while others can produce multiple ones simultaneously.

Fortunately, doctors were able to avert the a-rock-alypse: they removed all the woman’s gallstones one by one, as well as her gallbladder during a two-hour operation.

Accompanying graphic footage shows surgeons pulling open the patient’s organ and putting the pebbles in a steel receptacle like a grisly gold pan.

Bai is currently recuperating following the procedure.

While certainly alarming, the patient’s case doesn’t compare to that of another Indian woman, who had a whopping 2,350 stones removed from her gallbladder in 2018.