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Is this appendicitis or more adhesions?

Asked by College_girl (917points) January 24th, 2012

So I had a question related to this a while ago, but I’m still having my suspicions it could be appendicitis. The only thing is, when they did surgery on me in October, they saw nothing wrong with my appendix. They did however see that I had/have many adhesions (which they are confused why I had them in the first place) causing my intestines to stick to my stomach lining which pushed on my appendix causing the feeling of appendicitis. They removed some of the scar tissue that I had too. Also, my cecum was in the wrong place (near my belly button).

Now, the doctor told me that this all can happen again or in a less common case, my intestines can twist and my bowels can be blocked which means I’ll need even more intense surgery.

I’m taking oxycodone (Percocet) for the pain, but it doesn’t seem to help. I’m also developing other symptoms. Loss of appetite, vomiting, more pain in my lower and middle right quadrant which will even wake me up at night or prevent me from even sleeping. However, I don’t have a fever and there has been now change in my bowel movements.

I know you guys can’t really diagnose it, but I would like to hear your thoughts on which it may be.

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