WTF?? Doctors find 350 coins...in man's belly !!! - GoFuckYourself.com

Melvin the Dude · 02-18-2004, 10:14 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e/coin_eater_2

By JEFF DONN, Associated Press Writer

BOSTON - French doctors were taken aback when they discovered the reason for a patient's sore, swollen belly: He had swallowed around 350 coins ? $650 worth ? along with assorted necklaces and needles.

The 62-year-old man came to the emergency room of Cholet General Hospital in western France in 2002. He had a history of major psychiatric illness, was suffering from stomach pain, and could not eat or move his bowels.

His family warned doctors that he sometimes swallowed coins, and a few had been removed from his stomach in past hospital visits.

Still, doctors were awed when they took an X-ray. They discovered an enormous opaque mass in his stomach that turned out to weigh 12 pounds ? as much as some bowling balls. It was so heavy it had forced his stomach down between his hips.

Five days after his arrival, doctors cut him open and removed his badly damaged stomach with its contents. He died 12 days later from complications.

One of his doctors, intensive care specialist Dr. Bruno Francois, said the patient had swallowed the coins ? both French currency and later euros ? over about a decade. His family tried to keep coins and jewelry away from him.

"When he was invited and came in some homes, he liked to steal coins and eat them," Francois said.

The case history of the French patient, whose name was withheld, was reported in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine (news - web sites).

The patient's rare condition is called pica, a compulsion to eat things not normally consumed as food. Its name comes from the Latin word for magpie, a bird thought to eat just about anything.

Pica can take the form of eating dirt, ashes, chalk, hair, soap, toothbrushes, burned matches and many other things. Francois once treated a patient who ate forks. Most such objects are small enough to pass on their own, but some must be removed by doctors.

The condition is perhaps best known in children and pregnant women but is also sometimes linked to psychiatric illness.

A few details of the Frenchman's case were presented Jan. 1 along with the X-ray ? but no explanation of the stomach mass ? as a challenge to New England Journal of Medicine readers in a fixture called "A Medical Mystery."

Dr. Lindsey Baden, an editor at the journal, reported that 666 readers in 73 countries ? mostly doctors or doctors-in-training ? contacted the journal to try to solve the mystery. Almost 90 percent settled on diagnoses consistent with pica, but only 8 percent correctly identified coins.

"This case serves as a reminder of important factors that should be considered in the care of patients who are mentally impaired," Baden wrote.

SoundMan · 02-18-2004, 10:18 PM

seems like he had his own bank

Ic3m4nZ · 02-18-2004, 10:20 PM

too funny

JDog · 02-18-2004, 10:23 PM

Damn, I didn't know that could kill me!

jDoG

Rankings · 02-18-2004, 10:24 PM

you would think that once his family knew about this they would watch him a little more closely

02-18-2004, 10:25 PM

Vitasoy · 02-18-2004, 10:25 PM

Human piggy bank

Repetitive Monkey · 02-18-2004, 10:27 PM

Coins are nothing, there are actually people that carve up and eat bicycles, glass and even cars. Strange fetish.

Brat · 02-18-2004, 10:38 PM

that's a lot of freaking money!

i once ate a penny. my mom caught me as i was doing it, but it was too late (i was a little older than a year i think) She called our doctor and the doc said 'just make sure it passes'
it passed, and for some odd reason, my mom kept it and still has it to this day.

02-18-2004, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Brat
that's a lot of freaking money!

i once ate a penny. my mom caught me as i was doing it, but it was too late (i was a little older than a year i think) She called our doctor and the doc said 'just make sure it passes'
it passed, and for some odd reason, my mom kept it and still has it to this day.

Kamilla36D · 02-18-2004, 11:36 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Melvin the Dude

One of his doctors, intensive care specialist Dr. Bruno Francois, said the patient had swallowed the coins ? both French currency and later euros ? over about a decade. His family tried to keep coins and jewelry away from him.
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So why the heck didn't they take him to the hospital sooner if he's been doing this for Years??

stocktrader23 · 02-18-2004, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Brat
that's a lot of freaking money!

i once ate a penny. my mom caught me as i was doing it, but it was too late (i was a little older than a year i think) She called our doctor and the doc said 'just make sure it passes'
it passed, and for some odd reason, my mom kept it and still has it to this day.

Thanks for the story.

GonePhishing · 02-18-2004, 11:42 PM

Damn... I had no idea people eat coins, carved up bikes or other metals.

Rictor · 02-19-2004, 12:00 AM

Where do you keep your coins? It's as good a place as any.

unitedpimps jrock · 02-19-2004, 12:01 AM

that's some fucked up shit

playa · 02-19-2004, 12:04 AM

another wierd disorder i heard about was people waking up with an accent.

this women from Ohio had a stroke the following day she had an british accent eventhough she never been to england

very strange

On-top · 02-19-2004, 12:06 AM

That's pretty crazy...

NoCarrier · 02-19-2004, 12:06 AM

goatse could easily do this. All he needs to do is open his gaping asshole to give some change at the grocery store...

"That'll be 17,56 sir"

Goatse : "Wait, I have 56 cents.."

*HUGE GAPING ASSHOLE AND PAIN SOUNDS*

cling cling..

Roger · 02-19-2004, 12:08 AM

now that's disgusting.

GiantGnome · 02-19-2004, 12:09 AM

thats some strange stuff but what got me is some people eat hair? ewwwwwwwww

421Fill · 02-19-2004, 01:49 AM

poor guy.

Platinumpimp · 02-19-2004, 01:54 AM

Damn 350 coins

com · 02-19-2004, 01:59 AM

now thats what i call a roth IRA account

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