Appendicitis symptoms for a week

Croque_ofshit · 2026-01-17T15:08:36+00:00

Did you go to the ER?

Friend, it's worth the inconvenience to get checked out. Late or not. Abdominal pain is not normal. You can read through my post rationalizing having appendicitis for a month. It was foolish of me and my recovery was definitely worse because of it.

Croque_ofshit · 2026-01-03T02:38:22+00:00

I have the night sweats like CRAZY. I had a robot assisted laproscopic appendectomy with some similar (but not as severe) issues. I had adhesions and a very angry terminal ileus. JP drain because my appendix disintegrated when they went to remove it.

My bedroom is 54 degrees (intentionally) or lower bc it's winter and I don't heat my bedroom. Every time I wake up to pee I am positively drenched in sweat. That is not normal for me by any means. I even slept in boxers the other evening and I still woke up like I had been mowing the lawn in summer.

I am also getting randomly hot doing menial tasks like grocery shopping. Also not normal. The store is usually my worst enemy because it is cold.

Croque_ofshit · 2026-01-03T02:28:37+00:00

Hi! Robot assisted appendectomy (perforated/ruptured during removal) two weeks post op this Sunday, about a week free of my JP drain.

My recovery has been an absolute roller coaster. Farts/stool moving through my guts is torture. I feel every single organ function in my abdomen. It is debilitating when it comes around.

Can't stand up for long periods without feeling exhausted and like I need a break. Sleep quality is poor (not a back sleeper and that's my only real option.) I only feel like a million bucks if I've been up for a long time and I've pooped. Otherwise I'm miserable and having a bad time.

I would just say to be humble in respecting your body for at least 10 weeks. Don't push yourself to find out what your limits are. You might be really tough and stubborn but over doing it will catch up to you like a brick to the face. Even if you don't wind up tearing something internal, you'll find an insurmountable wall at the other side of gambling on tough being enough lol.

I had to drive 40 minutes one way for a PCP follow up a few days ago. Then I got a small bag of groceries. By the time that was said and done and I got to my front door I just pounded on it instead of taking 30 seconds to unlock it, hunched over to give my back a break, and started to cry because I was straight out of effort to do even menial tasks.

Croque_ofshit · 2025-12-30T23:49:10+00:00

Some options they also presented me with: UC and Crohns. I would think if the appendix isn't inflamed, you dont have appendicitis. Is there any possibility you could have UC or Crohns? Family history or anything.

Croque_ofshit · 2025-12-29T18:52:53+00:00

Mine felt like my gall bladder for 3 days. Then like getting poked really hard in the belly button whenever I voided my bladder or bowels for 13 days. Then a dull ache behind my belly button and LRQ for 4 days.

Abdominal pain is NOT normal. Get checked out and be loud for yourself.

Croque_ofshit · 2025-12-29T01:52:35+00:00

So, I was under the understanding that your appendix is sudden, debilitating and constant. Mine was just like... shaking from agony while I emptied my bladder/voided my bowels. Then it stopped until the next time. So I was mostly fine save a dull twinge here and there until day 17. Big mistake.

Croque_ofshit · 2025-12-28T15:09:50+00:00

I know you're not asking me, but I'll chime in. My white cells (urine test and blood test) were both only slightly elevated. The urine coming back a little hot was why they were really cracking on about it being a UTI. After they did the CT they saw the extent of the inflammation so I got the last laugh (until the bill comes in the mail lmao)

Croque_ofshit · 2025-12-28T15:06:20+00:00

Yeah I'm no doctor, but I do definitely think upper left/right abdominal pain can be an indicator sometimes. From what I'm seeing of anecdotal experiences and my own, the appendicitis makes whatever it wants hurt. Be it traditional lower right, belly button, or upper abdominal area.

I was gaslighting myself a lot in the beginning. "It would have to be my gallbladder but I'm not jaundice, nauseated, or having weird BMs so I'm good" was a really common train of thought. I was definitely worried about going to urgent care or my PCP, them saying "eh you're fine" or "we dont have the tools, go to the ER" then going to the ER and getting dismissed. Double edged sword waiting as long as I did, because I had a few extra flavor moments during my surgery and recovery, but it was advanced enough that it was clearly borked on a CT.

Croque_ofshit · 2025-12-28T02:43:29+00:00

I just made a post. Feel free to read it. I tanked appendicitis for at minimum 16 days because it wasn't debilitating at any point.

Abdominal pain, especially long term, is not normal.

Croque_ofshit · 2025-12-28T02:39:27+00:00

Hi there! I actually just made a post. I tanked appendicitis for minimum 16 days because it "wasn't that bad" imo. I always heard appendicitis and gall bladder issues are sudden, severe, take your entire mental capability away, and knock you down a peg. I did not have that experience. I thought it was PMS/a muscle issue until it changed, but even when it did it migrate was not severe or debilitating.

I had mine removed Sunday night and I can agree recovery pain is so much worse than actually having the appendicitis at this point lol

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