How Do You Know When Abdominal Pain Is Appendicitis?
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- čas přidán 12. 02. 2024
- -In November of 2023, "Late Show" host Stephen Colbert canceled his week of shows as he recovered from surgery due to a ruptured appendix. An appendix ruptures when appendicitis, or inflammation, goes untreated. It's easy to understand how this can happen when symptoms are similar to many other abdominal and gastrointestinal issues.
We talked to Chief of General Surgery, Katherine Fischkoff, MD, about how to interpret belly pain and when to call your doctor.
Key Info:
-About 7% of Americans will get appendicitis in their lifetimes.
-Laparoscopy is the surgical method of choice, which involves making small incisions in the abdomen to minimize scarring, pain, and improve recovery.
-Appendicitis most commonly occurs in teens and young adults but can present at any age.
Learn more about appendicitis here: columbiasurgery.org/condition... - Věda a technologie
I felt pain in the center of my stomach thrn it moved to my right side so after watching this video I decided to go in. Turns out I had appendicitis. The pain wasn’t even unbearable but I knew something was wrong. I had surgery the same day and now I am back home 36 hours later. Glad I got it checked out before it was too late!
Thank the lord I found this vid I started to feel pain automatically in my lower abdomen but however it didint start in my belly button,also it keeps appearing every week i think.
You could have chronic appendicitis.. get it checked asap
Do you have some other symptoms? Did you check meanwhile?
Yo guys it stopped
It's fine
The symptoms are exactly what is happening to rn and the pain is going to the right side from the middle 😭 💀
Exactly!!!!!!!
Did you make it?
Really helpful info.
Just had my removed yesterday morning. Thought it was food poisoning at first. Waited til day 3 before I came to the hospital. Boy was I wrong. They did a CT scan and sure enough, inflamed appendix - appendicitis with localized peritonitis.
Docs said parts of my appendix were already gangrenous. Who knows what might of happened if I decided to wait another day, thinking it was food poisoning…
What about if I still can eat and go the bathroom normally but when I push on it it’s like if I pushed on a bruise, would that be that or just a strained muscle. Not trying to go the hospital for no reason
I have had an abdominal pain for the 2nd day toady. It started in the middle and now as i feek has peogressed to the right side below the uterus. The thing is i sterted period yesterday and have no idea whether what i have is a virus( hause i also caugh have an on and off temperature of 38) or appendicitis. I started feeling super bloated and then all of a sudden i felt my stomach getting stiffer. Idk what to do cause dur to my period i don't feel the same way now
Oh lord. This is what am feeling now. Been going on for three days. Going to the hospital first thing tomorrow.
What was it
I'm not sure if I have this. My skin is hurting also, gassy also. But my back directly in the same region on the lower right also feels sensitive. So ill wait until I feel nausious. Thank you for the explanation.
Girl go get checked I had it too have I had an operation
@@RoseAndKitty I got checked! OMG. I've shingles instead! I had covid 1st time early January and only now I find out that 20% more likely to get this after Covid. I still hurt in the same places so asked for a kidney test too because having kidney stones coukd weaken the immune system and cause a shingles outbreak. Very similar symptoms though except for the red marks I got in my back 2 days ago.
I never felt nauseous and I just had my appendix removed. I had regular bouts of pain almost daily that seemingly spread across my entire abdomen. The only way to know for sure is a CT scan.
Turned out I had post covid shingles!! Must've been internal but eventually had 3 large spots on my back. They gave me meds, it went away. I covered with tea tree oil 2 to 3 x per day, which is an antiviral and anti bacterial. I didn't water it down. Killed all nerve pain too.
@@AHD2105did you have pain in lower right abdomen?
This is what I feel right now even hardly to walk straight
Go to hospital
Guys I think I might have this. I originally thought it was the stomach bug, but I now have pain on my right side.
This happened to me and I got surgery
My nephew just removed his with all those early symptoms
i think this is what is happening to me now
What do you feel? I am having this subtle pain in my lower right abdomen! It is weird cause the pain increases when I pee! I don’t know what it is but it is freaking me out
I feel a pulsating sharp pain the lower right side I took some antibiotics that seemed to help @@sebastianlozano7707
Bro me too . What did you do ?@@sebastianlozano7707
Same
@@sebastianlozano7707did u check a doctor? Is it appendicitis?
Im still trying to figure out if i do have it I got bad pains on my left sidee for about a week and not on my bellt button or right I'm just scared if it is this
Appendicitis symptoms can differ from a person to another, would be great if you do a little check up
Hello so everytime i walk my lower right is hurt. so i did the test at home if i have appendicitis and it doesn't hurt but every time i walk it hurts
bro same thing with me😢
I don't know if it was in the middle or not because I'm on my period so it could be either cramps or dying
I think I have it i”m gonna go to the hostoital
Personally my right gives a sharp pain only when i take in a deep breath apart from that everything seems fine so idk. Ill probably wait a day or two more.
Same.. How is it now???
I’ve been having right side pain for 3 years now. I’ve had Ct scans and they see nothing. Idk what it is.
I would see a specialist
maybe you have H.pylori, i had been dealing with it for years before an ulcer broke in my stomach and caused stool bleeding, you can do a blood test and see if it is that.
@@benjo1omg, i have that and i’ve been getting pains on my lower right abdomen, i didnt take antibiotics so it might still be tehre. Do u also get sharp pains on a daily basis?
Me too
@@danagameplay2402 I'd recommend getting a blood test and seeing if u have H.Pylori, cause when I had it it would be daily pains
Why do I always get the same thing just in my left
That’s gas trapped! I had this problem and gas medicine saved me
Holy shit...
It's over
How do u know if it's appendicitis if it's on the left side
Appendix doesn’t happen in left side because our appendix tube is always in right side if you feel any pain on right side of your tummy and also right in down with nausea fever vomiting that’s mean you have appendix
@@poojaverma2570 how about in a rare case
@@saleen78I think it happens in rare case but ya if yiu have pain in lower side with nausea vomiting fever then you need a medical attention you have to take a ct scan
@@saleen78also if you have pain while coughing walking and it’s difficult to move your body while taking steps
Bro everyday the feeling resets so it goes to my right throughout the day and then when I sleep and I wake up it’s back in my bellybutton?
Get it checked out with your doctor or go to the ER
Inflationitis is why i dont want to eat
I thought mine was a gas trapped in my right abdomen. I always have unbearable pains, low appetite and throw up whenever I eat or drink
Update: The doctors confirmed it was appendicitis after CT scan. I opted for antibiotics over surgery.
I'm done with my antibiotics drugs and I'm OK now.
what made you think it was trapped gas? did you feel a lot of stomach rumbling and pressure? i’m expediting this rn 😢
@makyo136
You feel there's air in right abdomen, and it doesn't want to come out. It's a sharp pain.
2 weeks ago I went to see the doctor. After CT scan, it was confirmed to be appendicitis. But in its early stage, which is sometimes difficult to see with the scan.
But I was given antibiotics for a week. It's now OK. I feel no pains anymore and I can now eat and drink
How are you now?
Similar story , they hospitalised me said is early stage did 5 days 12 doses antibiotics through IV. Now after one month start feeling again same place. I go same place they said don't need to worry is not appendicitis. But they just touch place they didn't CT like last time.
Only symptom I have is like last time just pain in right lower abdomen. No fever, no vomiting , pain is not that sharp I can press that place and feel uncomfortable. Is like this 5 day's already
@lazarsajcic9784
I'm doing well.
The doctor cautioned me that the antibiotics don't guarantee that the appendicitis is gone. He said it might come show up again. And the only guaranteed way is through surgery.
I'd suggest you go for the CT scan again, to confirm it. Appendicitis is capable of coming back again even after taking antibiotic.