I have had horribly sharp pain in my stomach, quite close to my right hip for most of the day. I've been told this is what it feels like when you need to get your appendix out. If anyone has had this done, can you help me out?

the pain is usually between your navel and your right hip bone...

I think you should go see a doctor

Maybe I'm crazy but I've heard of these people called doctors that might be able to help. If you think it hurts now, imagine how it would feel to have a appendix burst on you.

actually physicians... you would not want to go see a doctor of philosophy...

Go get it checked out RIGHT NOW. I had the same pain on a Thursday night last semester. I spent all night in pain and threw up quite a bit. By the next day around noon, I was in the hospital and they took it out immediately because it was about to burst. It doesn't take long. Go to the hospital now.

I woke up about 2 a.m. with a throbbing pain. Was throwing up bile by 7 a.m. Was ready to die by 9 a.m, got it pulled out at 10:00, as the appendix began to spasm and tear.

Go to the doctor.

i agree...if youre being serious, my cousin's burst overnight at his house once...i mean almost burst, he was wheeled into emergency surgery an hour after he was doubling over...to be safe, call a doc and go to ER

hope it turns out ok

I wonder what happen to this guy...

he got hit by an ambulance?

Hopefully Jane Seymour got to him in time

If we can take them out and still live, why not take them out before you get the pain or it bursts. Same thing with tonsils. It just makes sense to take the dam thing out. I have so many unanswered questions. Can someone please help? And another thing why is human blood red? Why can't it be green. Oh and another one....

Actually, the pain goes away if it bursts. Of course then you die, but, you know, it doesn't hurt anymore.

Rock out with your appendix out.

how horrible is this pain???

lke are u guys throwing up cz it hurts that much?? sounds pretty ghey

You don't want to risk surgery unless it is necessary.

Get it checked out right away. Also, If you can't touch the hurt part without feeling like you'll die, It probably needs to come out.



If you can live with one Kidney, why doesn't everyone donate one?

The reason is between 10-20% of people who had surgery in the last year died during it, or from complications with it. Not good to risk it.

I guess those pot odds aren't good. Dang thats alot of dead folk.

good times

It's been said, but go to the damn doctor. If you can't even touch the area, go there very fast.

Tonsils prevent diseases like laryngitis. They are a part of the immune system.

Why would anyone go through surgery to prevent a chance at a disease?

Oh, and hemoglobin is red when saturated with oxygen.

When I had to have mine out, I literally couldnt sit down because I was in so much pain

I went to the doctors the next day, and they sent me to the hospital

If the stick turns pink.

Alright, so I'm okay. The pain was so bad that I couldn't stand up, and it would go away and then come back multiple times throughout the day. Someone suggested that it could be my appendix and I freaked out. The pain finally went away for good and I was able to get to sleep. It hasn't come back at all today. Thanks for the concern and advice from everyone.

Hopefully this isn't the "and then the pain goes away, you feel ok again, and then you die" part of appendicitis.

Did you go to the doctor?

No, but I seriously don't think it's appendicitis, I think the pain would have been constant, it sounds like I didn't have it nearly as bad as the other guys who have actually had apendicitis. I think I just got paranoid when someone made that suggestion to me.

Were you nauseous at all?

I used to have the same issue - intense lower right quadrant pain, but never appendicitis - never got diagnosed

Could you have mistaken appendix with kidney stones?

I don't know, but with kidney stones i believe you have intense pain and then it goes away for awhile...

are you sure that your pain wasn't closer down toward the pelvic region than the stomach?

yes that's a serious question

"it could be a tumor"
"It's not a tuuuummooooorrrrr"

SHUT UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP!!!!!

I seriously think I'm okay now. I made it through today and the pain didn't come back. I played a game of basketball, ate 3 full meals and I feel fine. It was so weird yesterday, but I probably got paranoid and overreacted.

it was probably the burrito you ate for lunch...

How are you now?

By his footprints in the butter.

You have a kidney stone, dude.

Was it delicious and filling?

did you try taking a dump?

OK, this thread is getting a bit weird...

Still, I had 2 scares with my appendix. The first was a bacterial infection in my intestines (damn that Taco Bell), the second time was appendicitis. Simple surgery done orthoscopically. Appendicitis pain is usually indicated by a pain in the belly (near the belly button) that then gradually moves to the lower right.

This is always a good quick diagnostic tool: http://www.webmd.com/hw/appendicitis/hw64459.asp

I doubt it's a Kidney Stone. He would still be in terrible pain on and off. That's about as close as a guy can come to giving birth.

yeah

they suck

period

untill they give you VERY heavy meds and take a blood sample

Then youre in youre on ****in world and its fantastic

Appendicitis is overrated.

Appendicitis is -EV