Understanding Chronic Appendicitis: Symptoms, Causes & Treatment
QuestionI am an otherwise healthy 23 year old female. In the past 6 months, I've had 3 surgeries. The first for a painful egg-sized lipoma. I was still having a lot of pain (a 5-6 on pain meds). The second was for a supposed lipoma that turned out to be fat necrosis and scar tissue. They removed a 3 inch by 5 inch chunk 3 in. right and 1 in. lower than my belly button. My abdomen just wasn't getting any better. I tried going to a chiropractor and he successfully fixed the intercostal fasciitis, but there was still a lot of pain. I ended up having a pelvic and abdominal ct scan that showed a distended appendix. I had it removed 12 days ago (it was 1 1/2 in. by 1 in. by 4 in.) and was diagnosed with chronic appendicitis. Why was this so hard for the doctors to figure out? I'm still in a lot of pain recovering from all these surgeries and this appendix. What can I take to make this recovery quicker and be pain free? Are there any exercises you could tell me? Any advice? Also, are there things I can do besides exercise and loose weight to prevent further lipoma's? :) Thank you for your time!
Answerthere are books written about how to diagnose appendicitis.... some are very easy, but often it is a tough one to diagnose. And chronic appy is a fairly rare problem so experientially, hard to pick up sometime until it has been there a lot..... with all the surgery, when your abd muscles are healing, start with good exercises.... crunches, situps and strengthen that abd wall. Keeping your weight down/stable is the best way to prevent lipomas from growing and causing problems. Good luck with it....
