A woman from Spandaryan in Armenia claimed she was in pain due to crying painful jagged-edged crystal tears.
She is now believed to have been faking the medical condition.
Satenik Kazaryan, who left many doctors puzzled and made international headlines, claimed she cried up to 50 crystal tears a day.
It was first thought the woman may have been suffering from a rare health condition but she is now suspected to have placed glass particles in her eyes.
While a detailed analysis of samples is still going, experts think the mother-of-one is suffering from a mental disorder called Munchausen syndrome, which causes people to fake medical conditions and self-harm, usually to get attention.
Kazaryan and her mother-in-law Zemfira Mikaelya claimed the crystal tears are real but Professor Anna Hovakimyan is completely sure it isn’t legit.
“The crystals look like ordinary glass. I am almost 100 percent sure that the patient suffers from Munchausen syndrome,” she said.
It might seem obvious that the mother-of-one does not really cry crystal tears but according to Moscow’s leading eye specialist Professor Dmitry Maichuk, there is a rare metabolic condition called Cystinosis which could crystal-like tears.
But he said it would take several months for ones as big as Kazaryan’s to form and not hours.
“In theory the formation of such a crystals is possible, but they should be smaller, and injure the eye,” he said.
Crystinosis can be treated but Kazaryan said her condition got worse after taking the prescribed medication.
Her case went viral when a team from NTV, a Russian television station, went to visit her and took samples of her ‘crystal tears.’
Gemologist Ogla Radionova examined the samples and concluded they were ‘simple glass.’
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