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Originally Posted by youthoftomorrow
i woke up at ten a.m. one morning a few years ago with excrutiating abdominal pain, vomited approximately sixty times in four hours and demanded to be taken to the hospital. turns out my appendix had become dangerously enflamed and was rubbing against my small intestine (which is what made me vomit). they took it out at about midnight.
i find it alarming that they would wait to take yours out. mine hadn't even burst yet.
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Whats it like getting it out? How long does it take to heal?
Rob: Yeah, the pain is piercing. Last week esepcially I was rolling around nearly in tears doing the "Why me"'s.
I went in last week to the doctors due to having bad pain for about 2 months or more, and last week it was excruciating pain - realling terrible - and they sent me off to do a bunch of tests but also gave me some anti-biotics for an apparent bladder infection. So I started taking them and it looks as if they've cleaned up around the area where it's burst during the week and I've had no pain this week at all really. I got an ultra sound during the week and then yesterday I get a call from my doctor saying I needed to see her urgently (as she had just gotten the ultra-sound results in), and so I did, then she sent me to the emergency unit at the hospital. Why I am home now is because I am in no pain at the moment - last week they would have taken it out but they said considering I'm in no pain (which we gather is from the anti-biotics for the bladder infection), they'll give me anti-biotics and that'll clear the area up even more for when they operate in a few weeks, or it could just heal itself up. If I went to the hospital last week they would have operated. The doctors and nurses were amazed, so I guess I've had one of my 9 cat lives.