HEY, uh wheres your appendix? My left side has been hurting me...

[KDOG]

My left side right below the rib cage feels sore inside. When I press in, it hurts a little more. Its not debilitating ... but worrysome. Whaddya think?

 

[prvteye2003]

right lower quadrant(RLQ)

you're in the wrong area for your appendix

 

[Nithin]

the appendix is on the right side. stomach and pancreas on ur left.

 

[OutHouse]

on your right, near your anterior iliac spine.

 

[Bryophyte]

It's just gas. Either that, or you're in labor. BREATHE

 

[datalink7]

Most likely just gas.

 

[KDOG]

Gas? For a few days? I've been tooting on a regular basis so I don't think its that.

 

[Bryophyte]

I was just giving you crap. Seriously, you might want to call your doctor and ask her/his opinion. Might want you to come in for a check.

 

[HappyPuppy]

I think you should wait around for more ATOTer opinions. We're all licensed MD's, after all. We won't let you down, honest.

Can I have your 'puter when, I mean if you die?

 

[amdskip]

Right for sure, had mine removed. They can however move to weird places so it could very well be on your left side. Usually the pain will get worse and worse to the point where you can no longer stand up straight and you have to put pressure on it to make the pain less intense. Your white blood cell count will be messed up too IIRC.

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: amdskip
Right for sure, had mine removed. They can however move to weird places so it could very well be on your left side. Usually the pain will get worse and worse to the point where you can no longer stand up straight and you have to put pressure on it to make the pain less intense. Your white blood cell count will be messed up too IIRC.

I've been a medic for 7 years now and I've never heard of that or was even taught that. They are attached to something so I doubt very seriously that they move around.

 

[LadyJessica]

If you're pregnant it can actually be right upper quadrant. If you have situs inversus, then your appendix would be in your left lower quadrant. But you'd also have immotile sperm. So the question is, do you have any children legitimate or otherwise?

 

[tarheelmm]

When was the last time you went #2???

 

[Siddhartha]

One night, my friend Charlie started having intense lower abdominal pain. He called his dad who was a doctor who told him that the pain was on the wrong side for it to be the appendix. After a couple of more hours of worsening pain, Charlie's dad told him to go to the hospital. The surgeon on duty watched Charlie for a couple of more hours because the pain was on the wrong side, but decided to go in when Charlie's developed a high fever.

It turned out that Charlie's appendix was infected and was about to burst when the surgeion was cutting him open.

 

[OverVolt]

Originally posted by: prvteye2003

Originally posted by: amdskip
Right for sure, had mine removed. They can however move to weird places so it could very well be on your left side. Usually the pain will get worse and worse to the point where you can no longer stand up straight and you have to put pressure on it to make the pain less intense. Your white blood cell count will be messed up too IIRC.

I've been a medic for 7 years now and I've never heard of that or was even taught that. They are attached to something so I doubt very seriously that they move around.

I think he's reffering to where the pain is, not that the actual appendix floats around lol. At leats thats how i understood it.

 

[zbalat]

My Appendicitis came on fast. At 10 PM I suddenly felt uncomfortable by 2 AM I was at the hospital with severe pain (right side). I had my appendix removed around 5 AM. The surgeon said it was about to burst when he opened me up. That's what happened to me.

However.... I have a few friends (including a roommate that I carted to the hospital) that have had appendicitis as well and it took much longer for the symptoms to get serious enough for them to go to the ER. Symptoms included nausea, fever, headaches and abdominal pain.

Get to the doctor ASAP. If your appendix bursts you may die.

 

[Jzero]

Some times the pain is actually on the left side.
Although everything I know about appendicitis I learned from playing "Life & Death." Right side - X-ray for kidney stones, then order surgery. Left side - X-ray then surgery. Pain across entire abdomen - gas, keep them overnight for observation.

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: OverVolt

Originally posted by: prvteye2003

Originally posted by: amdskip
Right for sure, had mine removed. They can however move to weird places so it could very well be on your left side. Usually the pain will get worse and worse to the point where you can no longer stand up straight and you have to put pressure on it to make the pain less intense. Your white blood cell count will be messed up too IIRC.

I've been a medic for 7 years now and I've never heard of that or was even taught that. They are attached to something so I doubt very seriously that they move around.

I think he's reffering to where the pain is, not that the actual appendix floats around lol. At leats thats how i understood it.

oic...lol...didn't read it like that..yeah, the pain can appear to come from anywhere in the abd.. when I had mine removed, my pain was in the middle of my abd, around the navel, but, the appendix can be nowhere but the right lower quadrant only, nowhere else.

 

[przero]

Mine is in Denham Springs, Louisiana.

 

[mattgyver]

I had Meckles perforated diverticulitis (sp?) when I was 7. I had a hole in my small intestine and its contents were spilling into my body. When my mom finally took me to the emergency room, they did emergency surgery. The surgeon said if I had waited another 12 or 24 hourshe probably wouldn't have been able to save me because my insides were starting to "matastisize" (sp?), which I think means dissolve, because of the stomach acid. And they took out my appendix while they were in there just to be sure