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Hope you feel better and i know you will pull through. Stay strong and think positive. peace.

Hey man get better soon!!!

What a scary episode! I am glad that you went to the ER when you did. I am glad that you will be healthy again. Whew. Take care and I hope that you have an easy recovery from this.

Wow! I hope you’re feeling a lot better now. Make sure you take care of yourself and don’t worry about working out until you’ve recovered from all this.

Hang in there!

You had an angel on your shoulder. Get better soon and God bless.

best of luck man. take the time you need to recover. i feel you on the insurance.

Take care Israel! Positive note: it happens only once, me I don’t have the appendix removed yet, so it can happen to me at anytime. Hope you’ll be fine soon.

Glad you caught it and you’re ok

Wow man. I don’t know are you aware of it, but you are happy to be alive. You waited to long to have that checked out. I remember when my pain started, I was sure it wasn’t stomach ache. I don’t know how you managed to walk with that.Damn, you should join marines or some other tough guys organization

I never knew you could still walk when you have a ruptured appendix. I always feel some pain on my side. Maybe it’s time to have a doctor check it out.

your basically a moron.

what kind of guy swallows the back of a book? weirdo?

Wow man! Can’t you die from a ruptured appendix? How did you survive for 6 days like that? I had my appendix taken out when I was 14. A friend of mine nearly died when his ruptured, and had to be airlifted to a hospital.

My ruptured appendix horror story

I was seeing an acupuncturist for about four weeks to treat a supposed small intestine / ileocecal valve issue (he established that). The ileocecal valve is located right next to the appendix. Tuesday before Thanksgiving 07 I saw him for a treatment and the very next day I suffered from a fever and pain in my abdomen. I initially thought it was a bad case of IBS and called his office to inquire. He suggested to take acidophilus and Vitamin C.

The pain never went away and I called his office again on Monday after Thanksgiving. He suggested I come in. I was in no shape to do this, but drove the 40 miles to his office anyway. He insisted it was a missing enzyme, tested me with biofeedback to establish which enzyme would be best for me and sent me on my way with the remedy. I had explained the location and severity of my pain. He simply shrugged it off. This is a man who has 35 years experience and claims to be the guru of acupuncture – Dr. Sunderlage of Elgin, IL. Yet, he was unable to pick up the usual symptoms of appendicitis. Where does that leave biofeedback and acupuncture? Sometimes we simply need a Doctor!

The pain got more and more excruciating. The next morning, I finally could not take it anymore. Early in the am, my boyfriend took me to the ER at Chicago’s St. Joseph Hospital. I cried and moaned in agony, I needed assistance walking. I would have done anything for the pain to go away. The Doctor suspected an appendix problem right away. I was given some pain killers and prepped for a CT Scan. In my agony, I had to drink a big bottle of white liquid for them to see my abdomen on the scan. I hurried up drinking the liquid. I wanted to move on and get rid of whatever was bothering me. The pain grew more and more intense.

The CT scan confirmed a ruptured appendix. I was getting nervous but felt relieved we knew what the issue was. Within an hour I was in surgery. The anesthesist confirmed the surgeon had 25 years of experience and knew what he was doing. I begged the Doctor to put me out right away. I could not lie there much longer. Never in my life had I experienced pain like this.

A couple hours later I woke up in the recovery room. I was freezing and felt weird. After about an hour they put me in my room. Shortly thereafter, the surgeon paid me a visit and told me my appendix case was the worst in ten years. The appendix must have burst a couple days back and it was free-floating in my abdomen. It had also blown a hole into my colon which make stool leak all over my abdomen. A couple hours later and I would have been in ‘septic shock’ and all help would have been too late.

The surgeon just shock his head, wondering why I had waited for so long to come in. I explained the situation to him, mentioned the fact that I thought it was IBS and the acupuncturist story. He could not understand how I could bear the pain.
I expected to be out of the hospital within a few days, but the surgeon warned me I’d be there at least four or five days. I ended up staying for five days. Five days with lots of pain and discomfort. For three days I was given morphine for the pain. I suffered from fevers for two days. Fever as high as 103.5. Anti-nausea medicine, Morphine, Anti-biotic were given intravenously and Tylenol by mouth to lower the fever. The Morphine gave me psychedelic dreams and visions. I could not sleep, every time I closed my eyes, I was in another world. It got kind of annoying after a while, but it surely helped the pain. A drain was also attached to my abdomen, puss drained out for seven days.

The second day in the hospital, I called the acupuncturist (on Morphine) and informed him about what happened. He acted dumb, but admitted he should have picked up the typical symptamology for appendicitis. In the meantime I have written a letter to him, asking for a refund for his near-deadly treatment.

Only days after the surgery I realized how close I was to death. I am grateful and lucky to be alive. I ended up in a great hospital with wonderful care – thanks to my boyfriend who reacted quickly.

Now, two weeks after the surgery, I am still hobbling around, but getting stronger. Total recovery is six weeks. I can’t lift anything over 10 lbs, can’t work out. I am trying to gain the weight back that I lost in the days after surgery. My appetite is only slowly coming back. It is amazing what kind of grief a little appendix, a remnant from the past, can cause. Remember, sometimes a real Dr. is the only one who can help. Natural medicine is great, but it nearly killed me. If surgery is needed, only Western medicine can help.

If you ever suffer from a pain in the lower, right corner of your abdomen – go to the ER right away!

I think Susanne pretty much wrote a blog entry. That comment has to be longer than the actual article. lol

Now that you’re feeling better, which was worse, the pain from the appendix or “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium?”

Sorry, I had to ask.

Isreal…. first of all you look HOTT in a hospital gown… second im glad you’re doing better and safe. I hope that you can get back to your old self before the surgery. I am sure that it impares a lot of your functions. Im glad you’re feeling better

I moved to Ireland from the states, got married, and a month ago, had a tummy ache. I hate doctors and hospitals, so I blew it off. A week later, it was back and I threw up all day. By 10pm I rang an abulance and went for an hour ride to the hospital on the tangle of roads they have here. A day later and after a camera down my throat, Xrays, Ultrasounds and a Key hole surgery, I woke up to find a huge gash in my tummy where they extracted my Ruptured appendix.

6 doctors (only one of them Irish) and none of them communicating, sent me home 8days later. Pain was horrid, an the leaking fluid worse. I was readmitted for a few more days, pumped full of antibiodics, and released again. The gash they cut was 8″long, with only 4 stitches that went 6 inches across. They took two out, and a week later the other two. No bedside manner, no communication and me in so much pain. Finaly I have one doctor, that told me the surgury was because it had ruputred and been inside me for a week, causing serious problems. For two weeks I was told it was just removed, and then I got the explaination.
I thought you died instantly when they ruptured, but, you dont, not always. The doctors need to explain it better to the world, and take sensitivity training.
I never missed the US of A so much. Being a woman 37 with one child, I can safely say that I apprciate my life and loves so much more now.
I am still recouping at a cousins house near the hospital. Pain still a bother, and I cant wait to take the dressing off soon. Hugs

Wow, I’m really sorry this happened to you - but “stupid bitch”? If you know that she was just doing her job, why all the hate? It’s so offensive.

Best wishes for your recovery.

I also had ruptured appendix and it was just 3 days after it busted it got remove and believe the pain is very serious indeed it took 2 months for me to get fully recovered people also say im lucky to be alive and also congrats to all who has survived this because its a 50-50 chance of survival

I just got back from the hospital where my husband has had his appendix removed. For 7 days he was in pain but here’s our story. My daughter had just gotten over the stomach flu which lasted three days. My husband had gone to her house to take her family some dinner. That next morning, 3am, he woke up in pain. I figured he too was getting sick. His urine was dark yellow and brown, I thought that was because he had just started taking vitamins and I know your urine changes color.

He laid around in pain for days, no nausea, but he did go in and out of hot and cold spells. He got sick on Sat. and
Weds. he went to the doctor where they took blood and urine samples. Friday they called and said things looked fine with his white cells and never gave him any more info. I knew he wasn’t fine so today went to a different doctor who asked him a lot more questions then the other idiot doctor had AND he listened to his abdomen with the stethoscope. I could see that there was an area where he stopped and listened intently like he heard something. He then said he wanted my husband to go across to the Emergency Room for more blood work and CT Scan. This was at noon today. He had surgery at 7:30 pm and once over the doctor, bless his heart, said he removed a cup of puss. That it was real nasty. He also put a drain in. He’ll be in the hospital for 4 days and recovery is six weeks.
The ER doc said he has real strong white cells and that they showed normal. It was the scan that showed the rupture. 7 days with a ruptured appendix! I am so grateful to God tonight!! They said he was lucky to still be here. I don’t know what I would have done if one morning I would have woke up and found him gone.
I knew he was sick and I knew it was time to go to the doctor but man I feel so very bad I didn’t insist he go to the doctor earlier.
I’m making a pact with him that whenever one of us is ill we have to use the scale of pain from 1-10 on how much it hurts. BECAUSE he said it hurt but only tonight did I know that it was at a 10 when he told the doc!
It’s been a long day and I left him at the hospital on drip meds. Now they are talking about the other complications they need to watch for. Infection, pneumonia etc. guess until he’s released it’s scary.
Take care, glad everything ended up good for you. Thanks for sharing your story with us all!
Sheri

I have to say, I lived 10 days with a ruptured appendix. I was sent home from the emergency room the night it burst. I was flipping my bed when the pain hit me 10 days later. They had to do a 5 inch incision and take out a fallopian tube with the appendix.

After all that I stayed 11 days in the hospital, and 2 months stuck in bed with a very deep open wound. But honestly, it was worth it. It showed me what was really important to me in life.

I know how it feels to be in the situation. I am glad to see so many have made it through.

the same thing just happened to me, im only fourteen and i was walking around for six days too. but i never had any serious pain, it just hurt a little so my mom took me to the docter after six days, and they rushed me to the hospital. after a cat scan they told me it had been bursted for six days and i had to go to surgery. they found it very odd that i was seemingly fine, and they think i am missing a bunch of pain sensors. but i got out of the hospital abouta week ago. i was there for five days.
haha so yeah.
but glad you got through it your family sounds great.

I pretty much did the same thing. I felt pain but not severe. I decided to go to my primary doc who said I either have a bladder infection or UTI so he sent me off with a RX for Cipro and said if I didn’t feel better w/in 2 days to go the the er. This I did 2 days later only to find out my appendix was ruptured, when this actually happened, who knows. They told me in the er that they were trying to contact the surgeon and I would be having surgery that night.This was after I had all the tests done. The surgeon came to my room the next morning and said we normally put the pt on anti-biotics for a week so that all the “garbage” in the abdomen abcesses then they will set me up as an out patient and remove the remainder of the appendix along with the garbage abcess. I was to ill to go home and after a week told the dr. just to operate. He wasn’t too happy to do this but the surgery was done, I have a not to beautiful scar from navel to pubic bone and spent a total of 18 days in the hospital to the un-insured tune of $96,000. This doesn’t include the other docs bills. At this time I am recovering at home, this is going slower that I thought it would, it really knocked me for a loop. But, I’m alive and thats what matters.

My daughter is a student at Trinity Law School in Dublin, Ireland. She went into the ER with classic burst appendix symptoms and they gave her Tylenol and sent her home. Diagnosis, intestinal bug.

She went back to the ER over the course of 2 months and got the same diagnosis, all the while dealing with excurciating pain in her lower right abdomin.

9 weeks after the first day she went to the hospital, they performed exploratory surgery and found a ruptured appendix that had been leaking infection into her abdomin for 2 months. Her large bowel had wrapped around it and seemed to limit the extent of the rupture. But now her reproductive organs are severely damaged and as a newly married young woman hoping to have a family in the future, she is devastated.
If any of you would like this kind of experience here in the U.S., then push hard for socialized medicine.

I have a question, and this may sound dumb, I don’t know. I have been in the hospital for 4 nights now with symptoms of appendicitis. The doctor consulted with a surgeon who said I don’t have appendicitis because I don’t have fever or elevated WBC count. But here is the kicker…when they did the CT scan, they were unable to see my appendix….at all. So NOW, they are trying to send me home. I still have all my same symptoms, my pain is worse and my abdominal area is swollen, I’m wondering, how in the heck can they send me home saying I’m fine when they can’t even see my appendix to know if it is enlarged or not. What could make them unable to see it?

On 12/12/08 I began to have a faint cyclicak ache below the sternum — an hour later it moved to the left ribs. A fews hours later it was a stabbing pain on the right ab area. I was freezing and burning up simultaneously. The pain was excruciating enough that I thought I would pass out, but did not. It subsided a bit after 6 hours, throwing up only saliva, no bowel movement. I wrote it off as a stomach virus. Pain increased tremendously the next day, again lasting a good 6 hours, then subsiding, not completely, but the pain was tolerable. Sunday it returned with a vengeance, and needed to get an ambulance — could not sit up.
Had 2 CT scans, ultra-sound and stomach x-ray. Docs were baffled and said it sounded like I had a virus that caused an ileus of the colon. Was in hospital for 5 days, then sent home thinking it was a bowel obstruction that would fix itself.

Follow-up stomach x-ray the following Monday showed my small intestine was hugely inflamed now…. though I was in less pain. Re-admitted to hospital and 13 days after the pain had begun the docs said they had to do exploratory surgery. OH lest I forget, they first needed to put a NG tube up my nostril down to the stomach to pull out tons of fluid and gas - OOOOOOOUUUUCCCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Surgery on Christmas Day finally showed I had a ruptured appendix, with a huge pus pocket in the pelvis. Was on flagyl and levaquin, New Years Day.

Still in major recovery — praying to God that no secondary infections set in, no errant scar tissue causes any obstructions………

That’s my story of my Christmas vacation.

I had hernia surgery on December 2nd. A couple days later, I had severe abdominal pain and my stomach was swollen big time! I contacted my hernia surgeon’s office - they suggested I had gas or a stomach flu. On the night of December 11th, I headed to the E.R. Turns out my appendix had burst (about one week prior)! I had emergency surgery (10-inch incision) on December 12th. After tons of intravenous antibiotics, two abdominal drainage tubes (Jackson-Pratts), and other treatments, I was released from the hospital on Christmas Eve night. I hope (with God’s help) there will be no residual effects of all the infection that was within me. I’m back at work, but still have a doctor appointment or two left. My surgeon (who did both the hernia and the abdominal) said the timing of my burst appendix (days after the hernia surgery) was just terribly bad luck/timing. Bottom line, the whole experience was excruciating, but I’M THANKFUL TO BE ALIVE!!!

I have a cousin that was not so lucky feb 4, 09 my cousin died, with the same thing as you. It is so hard to think that now days this can still happen. I feel angry, He was only 35, He just got married on Aug 23rd. His wife and 2 kids left behind. he was born on Aug 2, we were very close more like brother & sister. Feels Like I will never get over this.

Hi i am a 4th yr student nurse here in the philippines..and i have experienced to assist a doctor in operating room and the case i assisted is explore appendictomy..i remenber when i was there assisting to the doctor i felt that it so hard to the patient because the doctor cut and put an incision to the patients body..its very difficult for the patient to under go the surgery..and yet the procedure is not easy to perform..the doctor cut the ruptured appendix.& after they cut we use saline to clean the whole abdomen to prevent the infection cause by bacteria and to prevent bacteria to enter the bloodstrem of the patient..i know what the feeling of the person having that kind of sugery..now i shared to all of you what experience i have..now my husband in united state experience explore appendicitis & he is undergone the surgery and it was very difficult and hard to accept that why is he experiencing that how i wish i could be the one not him.Because he is a good person,husband and a father of our children..he sucrifice his family to earn money for our future & i ask why my husband?why not me?& during his hospitalization how i wish im there to care for him but sad to say i cant be there because of miles away in here n the phils & he is in the united state we dont have money to buy ticket so that i pray for his speedy healing..& i thank god he is ok..i really love him & really miss him…

Hello Israel, There is some great information on here about a ruptured appendix. I was diagnosed Tues morning on March 24, 2009 with a ruptured appendix. On Sunday I had a pain in my abdomen whiched got worse and worse. I felt like I had gas and vomited, only dry heaves. I did nt have an appetite. My fever was around 102 and spent Monday in bed asleep as that was the only time I had relief. I did thank goodness make a doctor appointment for 2:30 Monday. The doctor thought I had gall bladder issues. My urine had bile in it. Scehduled an ultrasound for Tuesday morning @ 10:15. Was instructed not to eat or drink after 2 am. That morning about 4:30 I woke up soaked in sweat. Checked my temp and it was 103. I called the ER where the ultrasound was to be performed and asked whether I should come in earlier. They said wait till 10:15. Thats what I did. The ultrasound showed nothing wrong with my gall bladder, and my doctor order a CT scan to check my appendix. They found a ruptured appendix. This was 11:00am. My surgery was scheduled for 6:00 PM. Which I dont understand why so long of a wait. Anyway, that day of waiting was horrible, the pain wasnt that bad I just felt “horrible”. Wanted an end to my misery. As time goes by and your laying n your back, you start thinking about things. Hoping other problems and complications dont result. You also start to question whether they dianosed it right. The surgery went well, and I felt 100 times better right after the surgery. My girlfriend flew in from North Carolina and was great help to me. I couldnt have done it without her. The pain was excruciating. I love her so much for being there with me. I didnt realize just how serious this really was till I started reading these postings. Things seem to be going well, I had to go back to the surgeons office Tuesday, they removed my JP drain, and opened the incision and I having to dress it 3 times a day. There is a ton of drainage which has a horrible odor. The nurse told me this morning that its from some of the fluids that leaked into the abdomen area and will just need to drain out. At least I am getting rid of the infection. I have had a slight fever off and on all week around 99 to 100. But the antibiotics have to do their thing. Time now to just wait and heal. I wanted to thank my doctors who basicaly saved my life. And most of all, Allison who was there with me, leaving her kids to be by my side. Having to deal with the missed connection in Memphis and coming in super late. And then the fiasco in Chicago with the plane that broke down and having to spend the night when going back. Thank you also to her parents for watching the kids while she was here.

I’m searching appendicitis symptoms and found this. For 5 days now I’m having right lower abdominal pain , it is tolerable for me , if I score the pain, about 3, when I put pressure, the pain increased. However i know i have a high pain tolerance. I do not have fever but I’m very cold , chilly ,feel like I’m freezing inside. I’m also a type II diabetes. I’m aware some diabetic person doesn’t feel the extreme pain because of our diabetes condition that our body part feel numb. I notice since yesterday that my appetite not the same, not too interested about eating and I throw up a little the other night After reading all your experience I don,t wanna take chance putting my health at risk. I,m a single mother with 2 kids age 11 & 13 y/o. I’ll go to walk-in doctor tomorrow.

All these stories are sooo familiar!! I really felt like no one understood what I went though. It was a Monday afternoon when I first went to the ER with mainly upper stomach pain, they thought it was my gall bladder and did an ultrasound, finding nothing, so they told me to take Zantacs the antacid and set me home, that night about 4 a.m. I started throwing up and didn’t stop until about 9 that night when my husband called the doctor and got an anti-nausea medication for me. I laid in bed eating nothing for about 3 days and still in extreme pain and nauseous, I forced myself to eat jello and even walk around, thinking I had stomach flu. When things were still not better by the weekend I made a family doctor appointment for Monday, at that appointment they seemed to not be concerned by the fact that I had gone to the ER for this pain and that it had lasted a week, they took a urine sample and I waited for the doctor. My fever was at 103.2 and he pressed on my stomach and made me stand on my toes and quickly slap my feet flat which I started to cry from the pain, he said he was pretty sure it was an appendicitis and to go the the ER again for a CT scan. When I went to the ER my heart rate was 180, which the normal for a woman my age is 70’s- 80’s even to 100, not 180! So before they could even do a CT scan I’m getting chemical compressions to slow my heart rate, while on oxygen and the IV I had to drink the gross gastro liquid and do the CT scan when they saw that my appendix and ruptured but was trying to enclose the infection, but my heart rate was too high to do surgery, my surgeon said I would instantly have a stroke if he even tried, so they put a drain in from my back while me being completely awake, I stayed in ICU for 2 days and the hospital for a week, on strong antibiotics, then they took the drain out and I got to go home. I go back in 6 weeks for the laparoscopic surgery; I just want the whole ordeal to be over with. It is a very traumatic experience to have never spent a night in a hospital to almost dying.

my husband has had a bad experience with his appendix, he has been sick for mor than a year, his temp and blood count kept going up and they would treat him with antibiotics sometimes for ninty days at a time.three weeks ago he went to the er and they made him suffer all nite finally at four in am they took him too surgery, it had gangrene and busted, this caused him to have an illeus. he was in hospital for two weeks he has come home, he still feels in a fog sick no temp, how long did it take to feel better?

Uhmmm…..I’m kinda lost.
I mean my abdomen area kinda hurts, I dont throw up, just diarrhea. And feel gassy? I think somethings wrong with my appendix but im not sure. My mom said that if I still feel bad today that I have to go to the doctor. What are the symptoms do people with appendicitis have? And what is the amount of days people can survive without having it removed?