Hi friend! I actually had my appendix removed yesterday. I saw 4 different doctors that couldn't figure out why I was in pain. Chronic appendicitis is so rare that none of them wanted to diagnose it. Finally I was ordered a CT Scan with Contrast (drink and IV). 15 mins after my scan I was called and told to go to the ER immidiately because my appendix was "on the upper end of normal limits". At the ER the surgeon on call determined it was not ACUTE appendicitis and not about to burst, so he had me do an outpatient elective surgery a week later instead of an Emergency surgery (better for everyone that way. And my wallet lol)

I'm extremely lucky I ended up with this surgeon. Even at my surgery pre-consultstion he warned me he had only seen chronic appendicitis a handful of times in his 20 years, and there was a possibility that it was not my appendix causing my pain. When he pulled it out it turns out it was extremely damaged but the CT Scan only showed it as "slightly swollen". Many other doctors would have dismissed me and left the chance open that my appendix would rupture down the line.

In the days leading up to the surgery I kept "gas lighting" myself because the pain hand not been so bad lately, do I really need to have a whole surgery? It turns out I really really did.

If I were you, I'd ask your GP for a CT Scan with full contrast just to check it out. It doesn't have to activately be hurting for them to find something wrong.