How do you know if you have an appendix or gallbladder problem?!
Question: How do you know if you have an appendix or gallbladder problem!?
what are some symptoms!.!. only people with experience please!.!.!. do you have pains!.!.!. what kind of pain and where!.!. what else!.!.!.!? does this happen to people of all ages!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
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With both conditions you have pain in specific parts of the abdomen along with other symptoms that include nausea, bloating, constipation or diarrhea!. Appendicitis usually produces a fever, whereas, gallbladder problems do not!. Also, appendicitis progresses fairly rapidly, so if the problem is more or less the same after several days, its probably not appendicitis!. There's so much overlap in the symptoms, the location of the pain is important for making an initial diagnosis!. Follow up tests are used to confirm or reject an initial diagnosis!. With gallbladder problems, they tend to occur on the left, upper quadrant of the abdomen, toward the back side!. With appendix problems, pain or tenderness usually starts near the navel and expands toward the right of the abdomen, on the front side!.
To determine which area is causing the problem, pushing firmly on the soft part of your abdomen in the vicinity of the gallbladder or the appendix will produce a sharp pain if you hit the right spot!. Doctors know exactly where and how to push when examining you to look for this response!. You can try this yourself by systematically pushing with two fingers into various parts of your abdomen and looking for tender spots!. You would be looking for an instant jolt of pain, not merely an uncomfortable feeling caused by pushing too hard!.
Its extremely unusual for gall bladder problems to show up in children, and older adults are most susceptible!. Appendicitis affects people of all ages, but teens to 30's is the window where the frequency of occurrence is highest, and appendicitis becomes less common as adults pass their 40s!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
To determine which area is causing the problem, pushing firmly on the soft part of your abdomen in the vicinity of the gallbladder or the appendix will produce a sharp pain if you hit the right spot!. Doctors know exactly where and how to push when examining you to look for this response!. You can try this yourself by systematically pushing with two fingers into various parts of your abdomen and looking for tender spots!. You would be looking for an instant jolt of pain, not merely an uncomfortable feeling caused by pushing too hard!.
Its extremely unusual for gall bladder problems to show up in children, and older adults are most susceptible!. Appendicitis affects people of all ages, but teens to 30's is the window where the frequency of occurrence is highest, and appendicitis becomes less common as adults pass their 40s!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I had my gallbladder taken out a few years ago after being sick with it for almost a year and a half!. Everyone's symptoms are different, but mine was mainly throwing up A LOT! I threw up for days a time!. I also had an intense band of pressure around my ribs and extreme pain right between my shoulder blades!. It felt like someone was sitting on my chest!. A large part of my problem was that gall stones came out of my gallbladder and were lodged in the common bile duct near my liver, thus the never ending throwing up!.
I've other people just feel pressure in their chest, kind of like heart attack related pain!.
Gall stones are easy to detect with a simple ultrasound!. If you even think it might be your gallbladder DEMAND they give you an ultrasound!. I was sick a long time because they kept telling me it wasn't my gallbladder when all they had to do was run the stupid test!
And yes, it happens to people of all ages!. I was only 24 when I had mine removed!. Mine was caused by losing weight rapidly!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I've other people just feel pressure in their chest, kind of like heart attack related pain!.
Gall stones are easy to detect with a simple ultrasound!. If you even think it might be your gallbladder DEMAND they give you an ultrasound!. I was sick a long time because they kept telling me it wasn't my gallbladder when all they had to do was run the stupid test!
And yes, it happens to people of all ages!. I was only 24 when I had mine removed!. Mine was caused by losing weight rapidly!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
I don't know about the appendix, but I had gallbladder surgery 2 years ago and my symptoms were pain in my upper abdomen after I would eat!. Severe painful pressure and then eventually I couldn't eat anything without being in pain in my stomach area and I was throwing up all the time!.Www@Answer-Health@Com