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Q: Chronic appendix inflammation
asked by: DoctorQuestion on September 11th, 2008
I am having intermitant abdominal pain. Starts off mid stomach (round belly button area) and goes down to the lower RHS of my abdomen and stays there. The pain lasts about 4 or 5 days and then goes. It may come back a week or 2 later. It does not seem to be food related and the pain can come on at any time of the day or night. Pain starts off mild and then becomes a constant almost stabbing. I also feel nauseous with it, hardly eat and sometimes retch. My RHS is really tender when i have the pain and I just want to lie down. My Gyno says that its unlikley to be Endo pain anymore - unless Endo is deep within my organs now -going on a drug like dreaded Lupron would be way to tell. My old Endo pain used to hop all around my abdomen and not stay in the one place all the time. That's why my Dr is thinking its appendix related now. Another Dr said maybe i have a trapped nerve in my Psoas muscle as Endo was removed from there last year (RHS)?. Should i just have my appendix out and see?.


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Dr. Nikola Gjuzelov , MD
replied on September 12th, 2008
Appendix, Appendicitis, Gallbladder Disease Answer A4684
Current medical treatment: When i next get the pain the Dr (Gyno) is proposing to take out my appendix - he has had cases of people having tests for appendicitis and nothing showing up on them but when the normal looking appendix is removed the people's pains go away. The pain is right where my appendix is.

Chronic appendix inflammation (appendicitis) could cause intermittent pains in the right lower abdomen. Appendix removal should make the pain disappear.

Endometriotic lesions are also painful but such pain usually happens during the menstruation and disappears after the menstruation finishes.

A trapped nerve or twitched muscle can also cause an abdominal pain.




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