Not quite what I had planned for the day .....

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teamemmenracing

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 West of edinburgh
Life can give you quite a few surprises :thumbsup:

Last Friday lunchtime I popped into my local GP's office for a quick consult, I had had a bit of a tummy ache for a few days.
I was thinking indigestion and she would give me a couple of pills ...... instead she gave me a wee letter and asked me to pop down to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital .........

A few hours later I was in theatre - seems that I had been walking around with a ruptured appendix for 4 days .......

Been quite a week ........ :thumbsup:
 
Amazing and lucky, in some places you would have had to wait 2 weeks to see your Dr,

edit, should have added glad you are okay and here's to a speedy recovery
 
Lucky indeed. I had to wait 12 hours in the hospital a few years back and they right botched it :(

Still have pain today every day from it, hopefully you had a skilled surgeon up there :thumbsup:
 
ruptured appendix! no wonder you had a bit of a belly ache!!

hope you recover quickly and don't miss Christmas!!
 
I know how you feel. I had a ruptured appendix back in 2008 that went on for 4 days until I collapsed at work. Never felt pain like it ! Was taken to hospital and had 7 hours of surgery because everything between my diaphragm and backside was severely infected know as peritonitis. Nearly succumbed to it but made slow recovery and was in hospital a month and off work for nearly 5 months in total. It changed my life. Never been the same since. My immune system is shot. Was taken back in to hospital in May 2014 with an abdominal adhesion which is basically fused scar tissue on your bowel. Another few weeks to get over that escapade but I am still here...just ! Head down and carry on.
 
The above sounds very similar to the issues I am having ... mine burst as well and I think they took all the inits out to clean it up and put it back. Besides pain, how did you know it was scar tissue against the bowel as I am crippled sometimes when doing physical stuff for a while!
 
The abdominal adhesion pain was in intense waves similar to the appendix bursting. I woke at 4 am and almost passed out eventually so my wife phoned for an ambulance. I was diagnosed by a specialist and did not need surgery. After 3 or 4 very uncomfortable days in hospital it sorted itself out. Apparently this is quite common. The adhesion can occur when the bowel heals and can fuse to other tissue that it is touching. Over time it can constrict or cause the bowel to loop on itself hence the pain.
 
hmm, this is a few years for me now and that is exactly what I get at time :(
 
teamemmenracing said:
Life can give you quite a few surprises :thumbsup:

Last Friday lunchtime I popped into my local GP's office for a quick consult, I had had a bit of a tummy ache for a few days.
I was thinking indigestion and she would give me a couple of pills ...... instead she gave me a wee letter and asked me to pop down to Edinburgh's Western General Hospital .........

A few hours later I was in theatre - seems that I had been walking around with a ruptured appendix for 4 days .......

Been quite a week ........ :thumbsup:
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They breed them tough where you live. :o Good news you are on the mend.
 
About 10 years ago I woke up in agonizing pain, I have never had a pain like it and ended up in hospital. The nurse said she would give me an injection in my buttock, which I never felt. Turns out I had a kidney stone.
 
Interesting day indeed. Very glad to hear you are ok :)

As with others above I suffered a ruptured Appendix several years back. Only time I've had the pleasure of travelling Blues and two's style to hospital and chucked more or less straight into theta. The NHS surgeon did a great job. He did complain about the stink they had to suffer when they opened me up though. :lol: Happy to report very little on going trouble from it, just the odd minor muscle cramp around the scar.

That useless little piece of bowel sure can make itself known. :wink:
 
what causes the appendix to just burst??

health REAALY is wealth , glad they found it OP and glad your ok.
 
pvr said:
hmm, this is a few years for me now and that is exactly what I get at time :(
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Plenty of info on the Web regards adhesion but would suggest you see the Doc and get it investigated if it is ongoing. I have been relatively pain free for 18 months now thank God. :)
 
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