I had Appendicitis 

Who else is looking at vids like these because they think they have appendicitis

Just had surgery for acute appendicitis. It’s brutal. They gave me fetanyl, morphine, diladud, oxycodone, etc. I still felt extreme pain for the entire 14 hours they had me wait. Been laying in bed for two weeks and finally feeling better. Back to work tomorrow with 3 holes in my belly.

this is actually really helpful. you explained the signs and symptoms which makes it so much easier to understand how the process of appendix goes

I ‘ve been through same exact situation. The way you describe it word for word is exactly what happened to me! It’s been a week since my surgery and i’m still recovering.

My recovery has been like 10x more difficult than my time in the hospital post op.

I just had my appendix out yesterday. And your story sounds almost identical to mine. I'm home now resting.

This was a great video. I love the way you told it and showed yourself in the hospital. Hope you are 100% better now!!! Sheila

Wow man, this helped me so much... I'm in an Italian hospital right now going through this .. I'm 2 days in, and i had a very similar appendicitis to you, just slightly ruptured.. and I've been trying to get someone to explain to me what's going on with my body, and nobody here will... Your video had made me feel so much better.. thank you so much for this content... (And as you know, being able to relax and stay calm is huge for this recovery!) un abbraccio, grazie !!

I got my appendix removed in 2017, it had ruptured due to the doctor claiming I was exaggerating, I spent 16 hours with no pain medication waiting; the next morning a surgeon came in, barely looked at me, and told the nurses to prepare me for surgery. After the surgery it took me 10 days in the hospital and a few checkups in the local clinic to get the stitches out. I’m fine and healthy today, I think, and wish a fast and healthy recovery to all of you.

Nice job documenting your experience. My story is very similar. Glad you have recovered and thank you for sharing

Thank you for your great video! I’ve been having pain in the same area you pointed out in your video and my doctor ordered an emergency CAT scan. I’m actually headed for the procedure now. Your video gave me a lot of insight and I appreciate you taking the time to create something like this for us other people who are unfamiliar.

I'm getting mine out this week and will be glad when it's over. Thanks for making me smile. If anyone is ever experiencing pain in stomach or right side, go to your Dr. right away. Some people even have pain in their back according to where the Appendix is located.

Pity you carl But good to know that you are recovering fast, stay strong & come back with another informative video bro

OMG! I am very happy everything could was resolved with surgery. You look recovered 😊😀

I must say thank you. This is the most meticulously descriptive process of appendicitis procedure.. I know now what I’m looking at.. thanks

It's very useful to tell these stories. Well described btw. I had to go through the exact same process on April 25th so I empathized a lot. Thank you for sharing your experience. P.S. just an advice for people reading this comment. Please go to the hospital right away if you don't feel ok. Do not wait for no reason like I did. The worst case scenario is that you are fine and they send you home. Don't be ashamed to go to ER

My 16 year old just went through this on Tuesday and I liked your run-through of the whole event as it brought back many flashbacks. My sons ruptured pre-surgery. They did it by scope and managed to clean it up without putting in a drain. Let's hope they caught all of the pus!! Glad you made it through ok!!

OMG, I was released from the hospital TODAY, you describe the experience, exactly, spot on. Except I'm 47 years old and over weight. With all this COV-19 craziness, only URGENT operations were being performed and yes, I required one. It was no picnic for sure but I am glad I was FORCED to do it. I am feeling better by the hour. My dear mother gave me some SENNA tea and it helped the constipation.

I love this your story, I recently had an appendectomy and I can say the recovery after the operation is the most difficult part. I could not even pass stool up to 48hrs after the operation until when the nurses stuck 2 white pills up my ass before I could comfortably stool. I couldn't even laugh without feeling pain around the incision areas. I thank God I have fully recovered now.

I just had my appendix removed a few days ago and still confined in the hospital while watching this and I felt the same way. I felt sick after operation. It hurts to cough even a little but you got me on your walk lol

i had mine out when i was 14, and the blacking out feeling and throwing up, was exactly the same. recovery for me was pretty easy, back to school in only a week! glad you are okay though!

"I didn't see any gifts" hahaha omg that would be me. Glad you're doing better now :)

Laying on the couch now recoving from acute appendicitis (ruptured). Emergency surgery 5 day hospital stay. Healing and thankful 🙏🏼

Hi Carl, thanks for your videos. Exactly same happened to me last week! Very very similar story as yours. Hope you’re well now, I’m 5 days post op and still a bit uncomfortable but looking forward to a speedy recovery.

Hello there! Thank you for talking about this! I got my appendix removed close to 10 weeks ago, and honestly; I’m still in recovery process. My abdomen still hurts, the area around my incisions, I get tired when I walk long distances, I have gained a little bit of weight (since I’m not exercising), and I don’t consider myself 💯 yet. I’m not talking about my insides but the top layers or abdomen walls. I just hope it’s all part of the healing process… But a little over 2 months? This is getting me tense, worries me at times, a bit anxious from time to time… I feel that now im getting headaches, breathing complications… I hope it’s all good! Im happy for y’all that had a smooth process of the whole thing… God bless you! 🙏

My 3 year old cousin is about to go into surgery cuz of her appendix. It is so sad that this is happening to her at such a young age. Pray she'll be ok ❤️

I feel for you bro I had the same surgery and the pain was really excruciating. Well done to you for staying strong and good luck for the future with your health.

You gave a very good account of the before/surgery/after experience, I'm 4 days post op from a ruptured appendix, I had too have the drain tube left in my stomach for two days after surgery with a bag attached, I could watch the poisoned fluid leaving my body into the bag, made it really awkward too sleep, kept thinking I'd tear the stitching, I'm now home and recovering well but man I do not (and it won't happen again, it's not there 😂🤣) wanna go through that pain again, It amazes me that something so pointless in the body has the potential too kill you, crazy thought in hindsight, I was hours away from full sepsis setting in and Dr's said if I'd left it any longer I may not have been here or life would have been changed irreversibley, sobering thought. Well played on your recovery mate and great video 😎👍

Just had this op yesterday (Monday). I went in on the Friday and they wouldn't let me eat anything. until this morning Tuesday. No fluids either, only through a drip. Main thing re post op is not to be lifting things. My limit for the week is my light mac laptop. This will be the case for the next 3-4 weeks. No heavy lifting for 2 months. I also agree with you that the hardest thing to do is to get in and out of bed. I'll go and see a physio tomorrow to get advise on how to slowly strengthen myself and how to get in and out of bed !!!!!!! One thing I advise is if you think it's appendicitis, then call a doctor right away to check you and get him to write a referral letter to the hospital. Don't wait thinking it'll get better. At some stage it will feel like stomach pain, then cramps, then severe cramps, then it moves to you right side. This is when you need to start acting fast. Right, I'm off to take some more painkillers.

It’s rly amazing how one little thing could cause so much trouble because I just came from the hospital from my surgery yesterday for appendicitis and it still hurts but it’s better to get it removed before it’s to late the pain that you described from it was exactly how it felt And still does lol but your video was very educational and it showed me what has been done to me

Thank you for sharing your story. I'll have my own story after tomorrow.

Hi, Brian here from 🇵🇭, I've lost my appendix too last 14 days ago. I feel so bad about it. Still recovering hoping everything's fine. I undergo open surgery. The pain is really bad before and after. But now I'm feeling better. Get well soon to all of us!

As someone who had appendicitis and went through the whole process, this was no joke one of the hardest parts of my life and I certainly won’t miss it whatsoever

I had my appendix removed about 22 days ago! It's pretty similar to your story! Mine goes back to April, I went to the ER after spending 3 days with horrible pain on my right side, it even evolved to vomiting, there they just told me I had some constipation. Flash forward to September I started having the same pain around September 9th - I thought to myself "not again" - so I decided to take the medicine they had prescribed me back in April - something for the pain and to help with the gut flow - the days went by and the pain never disappeared even with the pain pills it only went mild and discomfort until the night of September 12th ... I had already maxed out the pills for the day so I couldn't take anymore, I didn't sleep that night with horrible pain that affected my entire right side down to m pelvis and even a bit of my back, then I started vomiting, around 7am I decided I needed to go to the ER... I spent all morning there and in the afternoon after the CT scan they told me it was most likely acute appendicitis and I had already some local peritonitis. I had a lap appendectomy that afternoon. I was extremely anxious for the surgery it was my first and hopefully last, I loved the anesthesia hahaha a peaceful sleep! The next day the doctor told me they also found some pus around it, and because of that, I spend an extra day in the hospital. The first days were painful, but I got to go home on the second day and still recovering! No longer in pain just some sharp moments around the scars! But to think that I could've just kept going with my pain pills and thinking it was constipation... it could've been way worse. Both episodes were on different hospitals, this time I asked my doctor if what I had in April could be linked and he said most likely because appendicitis tends to mimic other conditions.

Great video man love to see that you got better

And I just had my surgery on Friday, still trying to recover. Nice video bro!

I am here 3days after my surgery and I just felt like you were telling my story, 90% of the time.. and now just battling with shoulder pain and gases moving all over inside me 🥺

I just had surgery for appendicitis and trust me you won’t feel anything during surgery and recovery is not painful at all. What hurts the most is before you know that you have it because you become very flushed.

Searching some vids like this here on RU-vid. Lol I just had a surgery last week. I watched your video hours before my surgery. Thanks for sharing your story 😊

I’m 14 now and on December 31 2020 at the age of 13 I had apendecitis. It sucked but I can relate to this guy on many levels

Dude you might not think so but you got off lightly. I had been visiting my GP for nearly a year with the same symptoms and ended up with a burst appendix, that was gangrenous, with post op complications, my incision is 200mm long, which opened up when they removed the staples and has had to heal from the inside out. That was 18 months ago and quite few visits to hospital during that time, massive impact on work and private life.

It's been 1 year since I had my appendix out. It was horrific, I thought I was having kidney stones. Worst pain I have ever felt in my life. My old boss was lucky enough to get the keyhole surgery but I had to be opened up because it completely perforated and my organs were covered in deadly bacteria. My fiance and the NHS saved my life that night. I'll never forget it... but to break the ice, this surgery sucks.. you can't sneeze, cough, laugh or fart. When I finally did it was like an orchestra 😂 also didn't go to the bathroom for 27 days because of all the morphine and codeine during the 6 week recovery.

My experience: initially I thought I was sick from something I ate, my stomach cramps were severe. My whole body ached (like arthritic pain) had a low grade fever, but the next day i felt a little better. My pain continued another 3 days, it felt different from a stomach ache, my intestines felt swollen and there was a lot of tightness to them. Went to ER, diagnoses: appendicitis. This is the 3rd day and my abdomen is sore and uncomfortable but hopefully by next week I'll feel a lot better...

Its really painful especially when you walk its like knife or hundred needles stabbing on lower right side of my abdomen, my appendex was removed last June and after a weeks no more pain from surgeries my feeling is back to normal.

we have a similar story. glad to say we are both still here to tell it 🙏🏼

I'm recovering at home from my appendectomy still in pain but our stories are almost identical can't wait to be pain free and able to start exercising again😢

Handsome guy. Thx for sharing. Glad u came out as fine as you look😊

I had pain and felt awful for 2 weeks before i was referred to hospital (in the UK)...mine had already exploded!!!! An abcess had formed and also exploded and caused sepsis....I had drains in for a month and today I have been told I now have to have a colonoscopy and go back in about 2 months to remove what's left of my appendix....you are so lucky you had a fairly easy experience!!!

Health is 80% of life So congrats on heeling Carl 💘

Thank you for this upload, I've just had mine out. Went in yesterday thinking it was possibly appendicitis but probably just bad period cramps, 6 hours later I'm under the knife. At home now recovering and the pain is so much worse than it was in hospital. Very bad timing due to covid so I was rushed out, I'm feeling quite lost on what to do now I'm home, but this has really helped, thank you :)

Thank you. Last weekend, Saturday the 17th of July 2021 I had lunch and not long afterwards a sudden pain emerged right near my belly button. I thought it was indigestion. The pain spread to my right hand side. It's now Saturday the 24th and the pain hasn't disappeared. Despite taking something which has only temporarily eased the pain. I've struggled to get around all week and nights are the worst as no matter what side I sleep on the pain is more intense. Occasionally I've felt nauseous. I haven't got a fever. I'm bloated. I won't see a doctor unless it's absolutely necessary. I hope it isn't appendicitis Your blog has certainly helped me understand what having appendicitis is really like. Thanks

Thanks for sharing Carl you still make me laugh even at serious time 7:42 ...." where I saw my parents, Ariel.....but i didn't see any gift" It great that somehow you have recovered. Looks like it's a bad experience, I wouldn't wish even to my worst enemy.

Great video man! just had mine out 2 weeks go. recovery process was tough, still not fully myslef but found this calming watching someone else go through it

Thank you for sharing your experience! I hope I'm not going through the same thing currently.

Just happened to me this past weekend! Pain like I’ve never felt. Same story as yours.

I may be getting my appendix removed soon so it’s nice to know people’s recovery stories :)

I had mine removed last week Thursday but it was too painful. I thank God operation went well. 🙏🏻

Bless your ❤ I'm so glad you are okay. You must have been terrified I'm so sorry 😞

I drove myself to hospital at 2:30AM when I realised the pain was just getting worse and worse. Admittedly I ended up passing red traffic lights so I could get myself to hospital as fast as possible. There weren't any cars on the road though. But that puts into perspective how desperate I became to get help due to the pain being a solid 10/10. Morphine didn't even help. After my surgery the surgeon came and told me that my appendix were literally about to burst and had I not went to hospital when I did then it would have been a very different story

Omg. I was grocery shopping 3 hours after I had mine cut out. You had the easy surgery.

Thanks for sharing your story, mine aswell same story. Thanks God for 2nd life you gave for me. Amen

Had my mines January 5th this year. Worst pain I've had in a very long time... I was just leaving work, when I felt pain. At the time the pain scale was a 4. Around 1am I woke up, and the pain was unbearable! I was trying to get to my phone in the other room, but couldn't get up. I yelled out for my parents, because I stopped by their house to check on them. They couldn't hear me they was sleep. Around 3am my mother found me crawling asking for help to dail 911. I didn't feel a little better til the IV. Had CT scan they saw it and went to surgery. Stayed in the hospital for 3 days. And had to take 2 weeks off from work. My body was extremely sore after surgery.

I had my appendix took out 24 hours ago exactly. I was in excruciating pain I couldn’t walk, talk, eat or anything.I went into surgery 2 hours after being in the e.r.

I went to hospital a week ago and they told me "there was a stone blocking the appendix but it's not bad enough to remove" was still in severe pain went to another private hospital and they did a CT , bloods and found it was septic and immediately needed to come out that just shows having private health is a life saver going to the public hospital with my appendix, if It had burst I could have been alot worse

Omg im your subscriber ! You just describe everything I’m feeling and exactly what im going through . Im acually im at the hospital right now

This is very accurate, i just had my appendectomy surgery...to those who have concern regarding stomach pain pls dont ignore it go to your nearest hospital..

I just had my appendix out a few days ago. I had almost the same story. Thanks for sharing.

I just had my appendectomy 2weeks ago and right now there's something fluid going out on my wound and like a bulge around my incision. Have you experienced that?

Best friend just had her appendix removed thirty minutes away at the hospital in the next town. It almost ruptured/ I’m so glad she’s ok.

Hello I'm amazed by your story 2 days ago i experienced the same thing i got my appendix removed yesterday good thing it didn't burst open and I'm happy that i have no more pain it was my first ever surgery and now i feel better now I'm home with my family for everyone who don't want this to happen to you before u eat in the morning make sure to drink water or something it helps and u won't experience this take care people

I feel you! 6 days ago I had surgery for perforated appendicitis, I also was positive for covid. I'm still recovering but I definitely put the intense pain up there with labour pains 😫 , non stop vomiting and dehydration.

I had abdominal pain last Friday, and saw my primary care doctor. She suspected I had appendicitis, so she advised I go to the hospital so I could get a CT scan and a blood test. Thank goodness I didn't have appendicitis, but I was in the hospital for hours, being put on an IV in case I DID have appendicitis. After getting out of the hospital, I was hungry enough to eat half of a sub from DiBella's. My maternal grandmother had a burst appendix in 1989 or 1990, and the site of the surgery wasn't pretty.

Same symptoms, (felt like horrible acid reflux from my throat to naval), then shifted to razor sharp pain in lower right quadrant, pain went away & high fever kicked in) waited 15 hours in ER hallway on a drip w/antibiotics & pain meds. CT showed rupture,perforated appendix. I had a procedure w/a drain put in, in hospital for 4 days. All went ok, and surgery was scheduled for 6 weeks.

I got mine removed 5 days ago, mine was burst open. The first 3 days post op was the worst days of my life, I was in so much pain, crying, not even morphine was working for me, and I had a drain attached to my stomach. I was released today, and the drain removed, I feel so much better, still painful but not as much. I’ll probably need another 2 weeks to heal.

i feel you bro .. had an acute appendicitis and its been removed last march 7, 2019 .. I'm still recovering ☺

How much money it will cost to get operated.

Thanks for sharing your experience!

I am recovering myself from a Laparoscopic Appendectomy. I'm 61. I went from a normal day dog sitting my grand dogs at daughters home, then midday, started having pain in lower right abdomen. I went home in evening, still pain & discomfort. I went to bed, never slept. The next morning I called daughter asked her to take me to ER. After they triaged me, they confirmed it was my appendix. They later had me do a contrast Catscan. They said my appendix was rather large. They admitted me then spoke to surgeon. They got me into surgery around 8pm. They removed the appendix on left side like yours. This was March 30. I still have pain on left side, difficulty bending over have to take it easy 6-8wks . ( I also had 2 previous abdominal surgeries 1- C- section & 2-Hysterevtomy, so I had a lot of scar tissue to navigate through that the surgeon said was difficult to get my appendix out through)

I had my appendix taken out like to weeks ago but now I feel much better

OMG thanks God you ok. Appendicitis is a serious issue and can be fatal if it ruptured. I think they did " Laparoscopic appendectomy " to you to reduce the pain and postoperative infection. Take care.

Your story is very much relatable to mine Thank you for sharing I just had my appendix remove 2 days back.. Do you have any suggestions on food and exercise

Oh my G! I have this symptoms last Feb 14 and got my appendix removed by feb 15 but before that I thought I was just food poisoned. The mid section of my tummy really hurts so bad and I was puking all over the place up until I have nothing to puke anymore. So we went right away to the hospital because I easily get panicky when there is something wrong with my body. The doctors and nurses keep on asking if the pain is already on the right side of my tummy. Then right after that they scheduled the operation. The before and after of the operation is really where you suffer. I ask them where did I get that or how did it happen. But what did they mention was only there could be various of facts that could be the reason. After a week of the surgery everything goes back to normal.

I’m having mine removed on Tuesday. How long did the overall procedure take? How many weeks before you were fully recovered? I work on a cruise ship and mine started giving me problems just after New Years and we were doing the Antarctica route so luckily I was able to go to medical center on board our ship and the doctors were very helpful and once we were on land (Chile), I was able to go for a CT scan and I also had them inject me with Contrast which you mentioned makes your body hot. Your story is very similar to mine except with me, the first morning I couldn’t sleep properly and was in pain, I went straight to the doctor and I remember saying to the nurses “I know my body and this is not normal”. According to them I was very lucky to have listened to my body and reported it immediately. Interesting and informative video

Get better soon mate !

Thanks for the video. Just went through this bs.

OK so my story was exactly the same as your.I just had mines removed yesterday and I'm still in a lot of pain. I have planned a trip to Vegas for 4th of July wich is in about a week. Should I cancel or do you think I'll be back to normal by then?

I had appendicitis and I was in the hospital for a week cause my mine ruptured and had an infection and I almost died Mine was an emergency surgery so I rode in an ambulance

Good thing you recovered fast

This made me cry n kinda scared glad your okay

Hey! Thanks for sharing. I had it removed a week back. Can you share how much time did it take for you to get back to normal & stretch & train muscles

Great story.

Yes I know how it feels I had appendicitis and I was crying since I had it I also had to have my appendix taken out and now I'm resting at home I was scared

I just had mine done yesterday. The pain for me in unbearable with the gas that’s what the most painful for me. I only have 3 incisions on in my belly buttoning to the left and down in the middle of my pelvis. My story is I was feeling a small irritation on my left side didn’t think to much of it, then it moved to my belly and lower right side but I only felt this when I went to a convenience store on Friday after work.( i was fine all day) but the pain was sharp enough to make me feel something was terribly wrong. I went hospital. And they found out my WBC where slightly elevated, just slightly not enough to worry them. But they kept me under observation and for me the pain remained the same. They didn’t know wether this was gynecological or my appendix and even time they tapped on my right aid the pain was bad. Even an ultrasound didn’t show it was an appendicitis but it didn’t say it wasn’t. Yesterday I went in theater I cnt remember going to sleep all I remember was crying all the way to the operating room. And waking up in the room they got me ready in. But not the pain of the gas is super painful. Getting out of bed makes me hurt a lot. They had to put a commodity toilet so that I won’t walk to toilet cus I fainted. But now I’m able to. To pass urine hurts a bit I have had any bowl movement as on yet just passing gas(how embarrassing 😳) But I’m on the road to recovery. In pain and still at hospital. Oh I was also not allowed to eat of drink. I was on the IV fluid until today. That was 4 days no food or water. Anyway I’m alive and it turned out that even thought my blood and urine and heart rate didn’t show my appendix was bad it turned out it was quite inflamed and my body was trying to hide it.😟

I had surgery myself I'm recovering now God bless you bro it's all in God's hands 😇

Carl, I had my appendix removed several years ago. Do you feel there were any small changes or complications after the surgery? Bloating? Gastro intestinal changes? Changes in appetite? Changes in weight, hunger.. I noticed a lot of changes in these things after my surgery. wondering if you or anyone reading this has had the same experience.

I had last week. Surgery done now on medication....

How long did it take to get the stomach bloating to normal? Cause i still have it in the 2nd week of surgery

Bro I just had my appendix removed last week. You’re story was similar to mine but I woke up one day felt pain in my stomach didn’t pay too much attention to it started working on my car. 1 hour went by and it got so bad to where I couldn’t walk, then I started vomiting because I had took some pepto bismo to see if that would work. Had my moms rush me to the hospital in crazy pains. Moms immediately knew what it was cause of the way I was yelling plus years ago she had hers removed. Got to the hospital and they said it is inflamed and causing infections. This is the kicker though that I think irritated my appendix. I had tostitos cheese dip, tostitos salsa chips and a Pepsi right before I fell asleep. I eat a lot of cheesy foods so 9/10 I’m assuming I kept getting it blocked by cheese and it was causing excruciating pains. You’re right getting out of bed was the hardest part but the couch is a mans best friend for the first 3-6 days. Just use mountain of pillows to lay back on. I been eating fruits and drinking plenty of water but I had to eat a lot of light foods cause the first few days I couldn’t go number 2. Had surgery that morning ate dinner that night after the drugs left my system. They put a tube down your throat while you sleep when you wake up you immediately feel that. I hope I heal correctly to do all the lifting and eating I usually have done for the past 25 years. Oh and try not to laugh, sneeze or cough OMFG IT HURTS GUYS AND GALS PLZ hold a pillow on your stomach if you do

When I got my appendix out the doctor was trying to see if I had it so he pushed as hard as he could right on my appendix and i literally screamed as loud as I could without thinking about it

At 54 I had a rupture appendix, and for me it wasn't that bad. I was in the hospital for five days.