appendicitis
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i think i have appendicitis. earlier this week i had some upper abdominal pain and constipation. At first the pain was under my ribcage so i thought i was having pancreas issues but today when i woke up i felt a pinching sensation near my appendix when walking/bouncing and when i press its very tender. no severe pain. im going to the doctor and hopefully get prescribed antibiotics and that resolves it. i took 2mg cyproheptadine and had some coffee today. i think im just gonna fast for the rest of the day.
really dont want to go under the knife, anybody have any suggesttions?
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@metabolism have you ever considered you pulled a muscle
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update: feeling much better now. I did a lab 3 days ago and my WBC’s were normal, but i read that in 30% of cases of very early appendicitis WBC can remain normal. i didnt have any rebound tenderness or respond to rosvings sign, but i did feel a 3/10 sharp pain when i did the heel drop test and it was tender to the touch.
i had 20 amoxicillin 500mg laying around so ive been taking one every 8 hours for the past 3 days. I went on a liquid diet fast with nothing but carbs for the first 2 days. lemon+honey juice, lots of coconut water and some coke. reintroducted fats+protein yesterday by drinking 2 quarts of goat milk had a good bowel movement this morning after some coffee and the pain is 95% gone.
Weird, i coulda swore i had appendicitis, my symptoms were: extremely tender stomach for a few days (particularly tender under the ribcage/xiphoid process), light fever & sweats, trouble keeping down any food (vomited once), and then one morning all the tenderness travelled to the appendix area which felt like a pinching sensation in the area when dropping my heels or running/jumping.
i guess i had early appendicitis and the fasting and antibiotic cured it or maybe it was a pulled muscle. idk. will be doing another WBC test after my course of antibiotics is finished.
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