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Appendicitis: Did I have it?

About 2 and a half years ago, I developed a pain around my navel (as if it was being pulled from the inside), and a low fever. Over the course of a couple days, it moved to the area of my right kidney, and got REALLY painful. It would hurt with every cough, sneeze, or any sudden movement, I even had to bend a certain way to walk. Then one day, I woke up, and it was just gone, so I thought no more about it. Recently, a friend of mine was complaining of the same symptoms (exactly the same, location, movement, and fever), I told him it was nothing, it'd go away in time. His girlfriend dragged him to the hospital, were he was told his appendix had ruptured. He is now preparing for surgery... I've been told for most of my life that untreated appendicitis is a death sentence, which leads me to 2 possible conclusions. Either my friend was mis-diagnosed, or I somehow DID survive it, with just a couple weeks of blinding pain....

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1. lucky you, sometimes it is worth a quick check up.
2. you'd be dead .... and probably two similar symptoms two different things
3. Go to Medicine net.com look for appendicitis. I just learned that you could have had it, a mild case without a lot of bacteria buildup and it healed on it's own. The same thing happened to me when I had it. My boyfriend said either he's calling an ambulance or he's driving me. So I went and my appendix was on the verge of bursting. I would say you were very lucky to have survived if the pain was that excruciating. I think you should have gone to the doctor.But I'm glad you are OK now.
4. Sounds like you had the same symptoms for two different problems because appendicitis doesn't generally hurt near the bellybutton but closer to the lower right hip. There is really only one one way to check if you are superhuman and survived a ruptured appendix, go to the doctor and tell them what happened and have them check you and maybe take an Xray, they would be able to tell if this is what you went through.
5. Doctors are Humans and no human is perfect. I had acute onset lower right abdominal pain and yes they assumed it might be my appendix, wanted to admit me for exploratory surgery. It did not 'feel' like appendix, having had grumbling appendix as a teenager. Therefore I refused. Turned out the so called appendix was a bulging disc that was aggravating the nerve root. I have known people who started with the same pain, had the appendix removed and the pain return. The joke being that half the population of the Western World no longer have appendix! Blinding pain that bends you over double and you do not want to MOVE!