What were YOUR symtoms of appendicitis?!


Question: I've read about them on websites but they are all the same.


Answers: I've read about them on websites but they are all the same.

For me it began with a general feeling of malaise. The next day I had pains on the lower left quadrant of my stomach and over the course of the day began to move to the lower right (the location of the appendix).

One of the tests that can indicate appendicitis is to stand up and lift your left leg with a bent knee. If that is painful, it may be appendicitis.

Being bent forward (at the stomach) was one of the positions that helped with my pain.

When in doubt, go to the hospital

i've never had it but it probably hurts in that area b/c it's infected

probably because most people experience the SAME symptoms, it is the SAME body part.

I never had it.
By former boss did.
She became violently ill, had intense abdominal pain that didn't ever feel better.
And then it progressed to uncontrolled vomitting with an incredibly high fever

If you have to ask you probably don't have. Symptoms are pain so bad that you KNOW you have to get to the ER. Comes on suddenly & can be fatal if not taken care of promptly if it bursts. My ex husband thought he was sick with stomach flu & they burst - he spent a week in the hospital.

I know what appendicitis feels like because I had my appendix taken out, and It felt like to me a kidney infection.

It can look and feel like the flu. My sister (at age 17) became sick. Over the next TWO WEEKS my mother took her to at least 3 doctors who all just said she had the flu and sent her home. Then finally when she was not getting any better, mother took her to the ob/gyn. They took an abdominal xray and it showed a huge mass of something. They took her emergency exploratory surgery (straight from the doc's office). It ended up that her appendix had ruptured unknown number of days before and had been emptying out into her abdominal cavity. She lost an ovary, tube, and a good portion of her intestine to the resulting infection. She had a colostomy bag for 8 weeks while her system healed and could once again process food. It is completely shocking that she didn't die.

So, if docs are telling you it's the flu, but it's not improving, demand a closer look. It could save your life.

Abdominal pain awakened me during the night. I thought I had to have a BM but couldn't. I woke up my wife and asked her to drive to an all-night pharmacy to get me a Fleet enema. No relief. At 8 am I called the doc for an appt, got one for 1 pm. At 10 am pain was so bad I had my wife take me to the ER. I began vomiting and retching. Pain was poorly localized, and slightly more on the left, yes, the left side. I told the ER doc I thought it was diverticulitis, but then pain began to localize to the right lower quadrant.

At surgery, my very inflammed appendix was retrocecal, thus the reason that my symptoms localized later. When the appendix lies behind the cecum or in the right colic gutter, it is in what the British term "a sheltered anatomical position," so the classic signs may be less evident or delayed.

Although I had mixed emotions about not undergoing a rectal exam, I was disappointed that the ER doc or the surgeon did not do one. I thought that would have been diagnostic. There was a reason that they omitted that part, but it's a long story and I'll not go into it.

I left the hospital 24 hours later. On the discharge evaluation the hospital asked about the quality of the food. I thought the orange jello was decent, but the beef bullion needed more salt. By the way, the nurses were superb, as usual.

I was told in nursing school the way to tell if its appendicitis is pressing down on the lower right abdomen does not hurt but letting up is very painful.





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