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Q: Appendix?
asked by: NoSnipeLimit on June 4th, 2006
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I had my appendix removed about 6 months ago.
Ever since then I sometimes have a vauge pain
where the appendix was removed. On the left..
I had some complications but it turned out good.
They used the 3 hole method. 1 for looking 1 for
pumping water in and one to remove it.
The strange feeling rather than a pain, hasn't really bothered
me since I thought at first I still needed to recover.
And for a few months I forgot about it. I then came home
and (was in a foreign country) got sick. With a cold and running nose, and a cough. The first two days I was able push out stools. But since then I haven't been able to(thats 7 days). I only get small 1 or 2 stools. And I use to go to the bathroom 2 times a day. Excluding taking leaks. I lost my appite and my stumic is bloated. The strange feeling is there more then ever.

Questions are, is it possible that after surgery the wound where the appendix was opened?
I had some problems while in the hospital where I had to contract my stumic mussles and it felt like something was ripping.

I have taken some laxeden to see if I have just hard stools but that doesn't do anything. At most I get gas out... My abdominal hurts a little, but I think thats because of coughing. I thew up once but again I think thats because I have a bad cold.

Any help or advice please. I'm 20 male.
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Doxielover
replied on June 6th, 2006
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This Might Help..
Hi I had my appendix removed in the end of january by open surgery. It was in the wrong spot so they just had to cut me wide open, about 4 inches. I still have pain where my incision was, if I poke and prod, mostly when I lay down to go to bed I notice it. I'm also told I have alot of scar tissue. I'm having some gallbladder issues and was at the er rescently and was told that my stools might not be getting through as good as they used to due to the scar tissue. I do not think this is the case as I am having bowel movements almost everyday.
However, I thought this might be useful to you because, i'm not sure of the location of your incisions but, if it could be related to the scar tissue from them, if your bowels are in anyway abnormal. A normal x-ray would show this, and it's very common to have this problem after surgery's of the abdomen. You could try a stool softner and see if they alleviates any of the pain. I would very much so reccomend getting to a dr or er right away ( I just realized you said 7 days since you've gone to the bathroom) a bowel obstruction can be life threatning. Just google "appendectomy' and "bowel obstruction"

please let me know what happened.


Good luck,
krystle
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kkaylalynn
replied on May 23rd, 2007
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I dont think he has a bowl obstruction for I had one when I was three. I dont remember of course but my mom told me that for a week I was in pain. Ever three minutes I would turn blue and have breathing problems because I was in so much pain. I had blood in my stools when I did go and I rarely slept. You would be in severe pain if you did have a bowl obstruction. The scare tissue from the appendix shouldnt be bothering you anymore. You might have a very dull pain because when they made the insition they cut through muscle and that muscle will never heal. I had my appendix out in November and I still have a dull pain there. Well good luck and hope you feel better.
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