OMG Appendix ruptured
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the pain is like needing a pee ( holding it for 2 weeks ) needing a number 2 really badly, with trapped wind, while having your bits cut off with a blunt knife and having real real bad lower back pain and being freezing cold too
TIMES THAT BY TEN
and thats how i think i felt on thursday
TIMES THAT BY TEN
and thats how i think i felt on thursday
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Why did this Kill my mate & you lot survived ?
Bit harsh - presumably it depends on when they catch it as to survivability.
Why did this Kill my mate & you lot survived ?
yeah im sorry too mate
im thinking maybe somethimes it just happens ( ping explodes ) and its too late or your unaware an think its like period pains or severe stomach aches
one minuite you fine then next your in agony on the floor
i guess we are the very luck ones
It was just an Honest question I never meant any shun.
I am just wondering Medically why that's all.
Thanks mate, My mate was female if that makes a difference.
We were sixteen at the time & it effected us all real bad.
I've not had the exact thing myself, but a good friend of mine did.
It can go from an un-noticeable problem to serious trouble in a very short amount of time, my friend was 'fine' one day, then had emergency surgery the next to remove it before his burst.
It can go from an un-noticeable problem to serious trouble in a very short amount of time, my friend was 'fine' one day, then had emergency surgery the next to remove it before his burst.
malc maybe theres different types of rupturing. ie a full explosion and a split or tear or whatever. or maybe your mates appendix ruptured long before it had poisoned her and she hadnt noticed the pain ?
a lot of people had appendicitis and appendixes removed back when i was at school
a lot of people had appendicitis and appendixes removed back when i was at school
I had my Appendix out last year, and the whole thing was a nightmare.
I'd had on and off stomach pains which I'd always put down to being from food poisoning, but with hindsight, it was clearly my Appendix grumbling.
Woke up one morning last March at the weekend and it was aching, so waited until the Monday when I could see a Doctor. He said that it 'might' be my appendix, but it could be just some gastro issue and that I should come back if it gets worse in the next 24 hours. Next day it was the same, day after it felt a bit better, day after I was fine and went back to work on the Friday. When I got home on the Friday night I felt terrible again all weekend, saw another Doctor for a second opinion on the Monday and she said it was for sure my Appendix and sent me straight to hospital!
Due to the length of time involved, my Appendix would have actually already have burst... but in some people, the body actually prevents it rupturing by surrounding it in tissue, so that it becomes a large mass. However this can't be just removed, so I had to spend a week in hospital being treated on anti-biotics to lower the swelling. Especially annoying when so many other people coming in to the Acute Ward for Appendixs (plural?) and just had them whipped out and were gone the next day.
So, even though I was fine after, you still have to have it removed because it could happen again. So two months later I had it removed via keyhole surgery and was home the next day, feeling very sore, but otherwise fine. I was ok for about four days, until I no longer had an appetite and I couldn't do a number 2. I then started getting bouts of pain which had me in agony and I could barely sleep. Went back to see my surgeon who said I'd have to come back the next day for a scan, but he certainly didn't expect to see any complications, especially so soon.
The next day it turned out from the scan that an abscess had formed, most likely from the surgery and appendix mass. This had to be drained, so they readmitted me to hospital and drained it by them shoving a tube into me under local anesthetic. I then had a bag draining this fluid strapped to my leg, it was horrible. However, I was still quite ill and wasn't improving. So about a week later they did another scan and I still had another abscess even deeper so had to do another drain. This time they said that because of the deepness, there was only so far the local anesthetic would go when putting the new tube in. It was honestly the most painful experience of my life, it felt like somebody was ripping a hole in my bladder!
I eventually got better after that, and was home after about 2 weeks. Worst experience of my life though, I thought I was going to die. I've broken a few bones, and nothing was like as painful as this was.
I'd had on and off stomach pains which I'd always put down to being from food poisoning, but with hindsight, it was clearly my Appendix grumbling.
Woke up one morning last March at the weekend and it was aching, so waited until the Monday when I could see a Doctor. He said that it 'might' be my appendix, but it could be just some gastro issue and that I should come back if it gets worse in the next 24 hours. Next day it was the same, day after it felt a bit better, day after I was fine and went back to work on the Friday. When I got home on the Friday night I felt terrible again all weekend, saw another Doctor for a second opinion on the Monday and she said it was for sure my Appendix and sent me straight to hospital!
Due to the length of time involved, my Appendix would have actually already have burst... but in some people, the body actually prevents it rupturing by surrounding it in tissue, so that it becomes a large mass. However this can't be just removed, so I had to spend a week in hospital being treated on anti-biotics to lower the swelling. Especially annoying when so many other people coming in to the Acute Ward for Appendixs (plural?) and just had them whipped out and were gone the next day.
So, even though I was fine after, you still have to have it removed because it could happen again. So two months later I had it removed via keyhole surgery and was home the next day, feeling very sore, but otherwise fine. I was ok for about four days, until I no longer had an appetite and I couldn't do a number 2. I then started getting bouts of pain which had me in agony and I could barely sleep. Went back to see my surgeon who said I'd have to come back the next day for a scan, but he certainly didn't expect to see any complications, especially so soon.
The next day it turned out from the scan that an abscess had formed, most likely from the surgery and appendix mass. This had to be drained, so they readmitted me to hospital and drained it by them shoving a tube into me under local anesthetic. I then had a bag draining this fluid strapped to my leg, it was horrible. However, I was still quite ill and wasn't improving. So about a week later they did another scan and I still had another abscess even deeper so had to do another drain. This time they said that because of the deepness, there was only so far the local anesthetic would go when putting the new tube in. It was honestly the most painful experience of my life, it felt like somebody was ripping a hole in my bladder!
I eventually got better after that, and was home after about 2 weeks. Worst experience of my life though, I thought I was going to die. I've broken a few bones, and nothing was like as painful as this was.
Why did this Kill my mate & you lot survived ?
If it explodes then your basically get poisoned, thats what happened to me and had to have my stomache pumped, I also remember that after it happened it was all that long before the pain really subsided, perhaps thats what happened to your friend, it poisoned her?
Yeah, it's called Peritonitis.
It doesn't have to necessarily be because of the appendix, but just imagine if there was a tear in your guts and then think of the waste and bacteria there getting into your internal organs and cavities. Thus infection happens very fast and its a medical emergency, which without modern medicine you would die form.
That's sad to hear malc. Since it was a girl she maybe even didn't see too much into it since it's usual for women to have stomach pains anyway. Seeing as I got a grumbling appendix myself it took ages for me to seek out help (and that someone would take me seriously) for it as most people blew it off as stomach ache.
My cousin had it last year and he was really complaining about it but everyone thought it was just something normal. Took him into the hospital after 5 days and found out it was the appendix.. His parents felt quite guilty after that.
My cousin had it last year and he was really complaining about it but everyone thought it was just something normal. Took him into the hospital after 5 days and found out it was the appendix.. His parents felt quite guilty after that.
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I had mine out when I was 22.
The place I worked at at the time took a days annual leave away because I was off for nearly 3 weeks.
The place I worked at at the time took a days annual leave away because I was off for nearly 3 weeks.
That's what its called, I couldn't remember the name, my mum always calls it buy its proper name, i just say it exploded.
Left me with a nice scar that then got infected, now looks like I have to belly buttons
but glad you is ok to and yes it bloody hurts.
tbh i thought it was used when we use to eat raw meat?.