Could it be my appendix?

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I once described it in here as a reply to someone's post but let me copy it now to get some opinions on if I can be right about the reason for my health ailment and its nature:

In my preteens I fell on my stomach once. The next morning when I woke up, I felt a sharp pain in the right lower abdominal lobe if I am allowed to describe the sore place of my body so. I attributed this ailment of mine to my fall the previous day. The pain went away soon only to come back to me over the next years with the frequency of maybe 5-6 times a year (the last time was last year). It was a bit like the beginnings of appendicitis from what I read on the symptoms. Attempts to bend my right leg to my stomach only seemed to make the pain sharper, while when I didn't move, it often stopped hurting. The pain typically wore off after maybe an hour or so.

Do you think it might have had any connections with that fall from before all those years and that it may have something to do with my appendix? Could that fall be the reason of this pain? What can it be?

You should probably go to a doctor. if you dont have insurance, go to the ER. they cant refuse you because you dont pay.

I've had my appendix out when i was a teenager. and thats how i found out i was allergic to penicillian, because they gave it to me and then i had a allergy to it

No, I don't need a doctor. I am just asking if it could be this. I have those (very short lasting) pains very rarely. Last year I had them maybe twice.

Well you must not be that concernd. a message board is the last place i would look for medical advice

I'd be concerned if it was something serious. There's always a chance that someone will know.

You could have chronic appendicitis, or what they sometimes call a 'grumbling' appendix. It sounds like about the right area, but you should go see your doctor to check it out; it could be something else entirely.

The symptoms don't fit.

I recently had some symptoms like that appearing again and I'm taking blood tests soon and ultrasonography as well to check if everything's O.K.

Hey, I can relate my, " I could have died" anecdote.

So, maybe once a year, I would get these terrible pains in my stomach like I had a giant football in there or been kicked by a horse, being male, I just went to bed and suffered for a couple of days and it would always go away.

I was in too much pain to go to the doctor until it was better, and of course by then he could find nothing.
Trouble is, at work, they were fed up with me having a couple of days off a year so the last time it happened, I decided I would go to the doctors whilst it was still bad in the hope they could detect something.

Now this time, it was a Female doctor, a Woman, and she said that it could be a grumbling appendix and that I could go fo0r some tests in a bout six months, (I live in the UK), or she could send me to accident and emergency, now I really just wanted to go home and lie in bed, but decided to go to the hospital to get it out the way.

Turned out this this time my appendix had burst and I had bad Gangrene, Gangrene!
That Woman saved my life, if I had just gone to bad as I usually did, I would have died and turned green.

My symptoms aren't that bad, nevertheless I started to have them again, after like 2 or 3 years. I think it's that "grumbling appendictis".

Short answer: No. Long answer: It's unlikely to be inflammation of your appendix. Appendicitis (an inflamed appendix) comes in two flavours: acute, which is severe, sudden onset, where the pain continues to get progressively worse; and chronic, where the pain comes on extremely gradually (over as much as several weeks) and would not abate within a period as short as an hour.

Bear in mind that this is an assessment made without the benefit of a physical examination, and no conversation to get more information about your symptoms.

I have a couple of thoughts about what your symptoms might represent, and they are worth having a conversation with your doctor.

What else can it be, then? Any ideas? I'll see a doctor about this, of course. And, I must add, when last year I saw a healer about another health problem, he "saw" some appendix related problems, while "scanning" me.

An appendix usually has rebound pain when the abdomen is palpated. You have someone push down in the area fairly deep and then let go. If it hurts when you let go, that's a sign of appendicitis. It's not always there though. Chronic appendicitis is what my oldest had several years ago. We went to the ER with it several times before they finally took it out. It was just barely within normal limits so the surgeon said it could go either way. It could calm down for a while then come back, or keep going and become full blown inflamed. That's not how he said it, I'm paraphrasing to explain it. He would have the "attacks" that lasted for several hours and then they would let up and he would be fine for months at a time. He would be hurting pretty bad, to the point he would cry and ask for me and he was in his late teens and early 20s then and at that age boys do not want to cry from pain or ask for their mothers. So, it hurt bad.

I don't know if you are male or female but if you are female you may want to consider an ovarian problem. It depends on where the pain is located and when you feel it.

I honestly wouldn't think that the fall would be causing any kind of appendix trouble, but I am not a doctor nor do I play one on tv, so I don't know.

If the healer you are talking about was a psychic healer, I wouldn't give that "scanning" any credibility. In all likelihood it was a cold reading and an appendix is something that a lot of people have problems with so the law of averages is on their side. Cold readings use that type of thing. Another example would be if I were to do a cold reading on you and said that you sometimes are misunderstood when you are trying to do the right thing, or that you lost someone close to you when you were younger. It's all about the probabilities. Don't take a health diagnosis from a psychic, trust me on that one please.

I'd check with a doc and get an abdominal ultrasound and also a GYN if you are female.

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I'm giving it another shot. We will see.
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When I touched my abdomen, even lightly, then I felt pain. It's not like what you described - that your son suffered so much - my pains were very mild, but still they were there. I'm female and I'll get an ultrasound. I read chronic appendictis may have its source in one getting hit on their stomach. And the healer did know what he was talking about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileocecal_valve

That's what it is, as it turns out Luckily, it's not what I thought, as the ultrasounds procedure showed.