A 'Pregnant Man" Finally Gets Rid Of His 15 kg Swollen Belly

A man let a benign stomach tumor to grow for 12 years until it left him looking PREGNANT.

A man from the Leshan City in the Sichuan Province was tagged as the ‘pregnant man’ because of the huge swelling in his belly. It was back in 2004 when he felt severe pain in his stomach. He thought that it was nothing but an ordinary pain so he decided to ignore it.

Zhang Cheng, from China, first became aware of the abdominal benign tumour in 2004.



Apart from that, he also thought that going to the hospital would be pretty expensive so he chose to rely on natural medicines to try and cure the pain that he’s experiencing. However, after 2 years, he was surprised because he felt the pain again so he got himself checked.

But unable to afford surgery to have it removed, he left it to grow and grow for more than a decade until it expanded to massive proportions.

Apparently, the pain that the so-called pregnant man isn’t far from nothing because it was a tumor. The tumor inside him has been growing big that it needed to be removed.



But then, again, instead of allowing the doctors to heal him, the pregnant man continued to take in traditional medicines.

After 10 years, he ended up carrying a tumor that’s as huge as the size of a beach ball, making it appear like he’s a pregnant man. He then carries a whopping 15kg tumor!

When it eventually began to threaten his health, however, the 33-year-old was talked into borrowing a large sum of cash to pay for its removal.



Doctors urged him to have the tumor removed, or it might cause further complications to his body. But because of the risks the surgery might bring, doctors across China refused to take him in. The Military General Hospital in Chengdu, Sichuan province was the only hospital willing to save him.

The surgery took 6 hours with the help of a team of experts from three medical departments from the said hospital. Luckily for him, he survived the surgery and may now live normally.

But Doctor Dai said Zhang is not out of the woods yet.



The medic said: "Due to the tumour’s position the surgery was extremely risky. There was a high chance of heavy bleeding.

"The patient is now being kept in the intensive care unit for further observation."

Zhang had hoped the tumour could be suppressed with traditional remedies, but his decision not to operate saw the tumour grow bigger and bigger until he ended up carrying it around like an unborn child.