Melian do you have more info on this? I hadn’t heard of this before but got my attention. Just this week I had a co worker have an emergency appendectomy. She is in her 50s. I don’t know any people that have had this done at that age but I suppose it happens.
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I’m obviously not Melian lol..but my appendix tried to kill me in Jan, so I had to have it removed. I also had Covid at the time, but have not had any clot shots.
Having said that, I’ve heard several different “theories” (loosely termed because I don’t think medical professionals know what the heck they are talking about sometimes.)
I heard that having Covid causes appendicitis, which in my case is simply not true. My appendix had been bugging me for years, way before Covid. I knew it was going lol, but you have to wait until it’s bad now before they’ll remove it.
I got Covid on a Sun and Fri started in with this nonstop vomiting.. serious, every 10 min, couldn’t keep a thing down. Not even an ice chip. One of my cats jumped on my stomach at about 5 pm and I thought.. “NO.. no... that hurt, no, it can’t be appendicitis.” But it was.
Then ER nurse told me Covid causes severe vomiting. I just looked at my hubs. No, it doesn’t cause THAT kind of vomiting, appendicitis does though.
My hospital nurse, who was quadruple masked, gloved and special gowned was angry that I wasn’t vaccinated and told me all the horrible things that might happen because I’m not vaxxed. I just said, “well I’m allergic to a couple of things in vaccines, so I can’t risk it, sorry you feel that way and can I have something to eat?” Yeah, call the cafeteria. They had nothing gluten free so she threw me some sugar free jello. I didn’t have my cell phone so couldn’t call hubby to rescue me. I decided then and there to not call her unless I was dying. I got a really nice late night nurse, who took good care of me.
I’m 66, I was surprised at the appendicitis. But I got a smart ER doc that said it can happen at any age. My oldest sister was 18 when she had hers removed, my dad’s appendix had bothered him starting at the age of 10. No money, so they seriously strapped him to an ironing board, turned him upside down, and massaged his appendix until he felt better. He got his out at the age of about 30?
When I had my hernia surgery, one of the nurses also repeated that covid can cause appendicitis, so I smart mouthed said.. “Wow, I must have had covid 6 or 7 yrs ago, cuz that’s when mine started bothering me.” My covid and my appendix together were a fluke as far as I’m concerned. But it’ll probably be part of the statistics now.. the covid and appendicitis go hand in hand.
Nowadays, I believe all appendectomies are emergency, because they wait until you are near death. (I exaggerate a bit). But I went to 2 doctors and was told, have to wait until it’s an emergency. My dad, on the other hand, since it was years ago, and the surgeon was a good friend told my dad, call me when you are ready and I’ll remove it. My dad was working a couple of jobs and couldn’t take the time off... in 2 months work slowed, so he called his surgeon and he took it out. No emergency, just done, no waiting until you are sick.
My sister was sick like I was, non stop vomiting, but she had a lot of pain. I didn’t have pain until said cat did the exam lol. No referred pain, but when the ER doc pressed on that area, I about hit the ceiling.
So far no pancreatic issues. But again, I’m not vaxxed nor will be.
I hope this clears a bit up.
the sad thing is effects of the shot can be had without having the shot in some cases.its complicated i dont know how it works.
I think viruses and bacterial infections, such as strep throat, can, in general, sometimes cause an appendix that has problems to finally give up the ghost.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think the appendix has some lymphatic tissue that might swell when a person is sick. Waste gunk, since the appendix is at the junction of the small and large intestine, can get trapped in the appendix and cause it to get infected.
Some years ago, I had a ruptured appendix. I did not know it because my appendix was retrocecal (sp.? I just don’t care), meaning instead of being pointed toward the front of my body, it was pointed toward my back. It’s just an anatomical thing, like some people have a foot that is a size bigger.
Anyway, the pain isn’t as great when you have appendicitis and neither is the nausea. It feels like you strained your back, and as I had been doing heaving lifting, I thought that is what I had done. Plus my right ovary was all messed up from endometriosis, so I had pain anyway.
Anyway, it had ruptured, formed an abscess, and I finally got too sick to ignore it all. I had been walking around a couple of weeks at least with a ruptured appendix. I ended up in ICU for a few days on antibiotics and had to take them at home via IV for weeks. They took my appendix out months later via lapro, same-day surgery, as well as some of the endo and a cyst they found on the ovary.
The appendix, per pathology, showed layers of scar tissue, suggesting it had been getting inflamed for years and endo on the outside, which probably caused it to get strictured and gunk to accumulate.
During this period of time that this was happening, I heard a lot of appendicitis stories from co-workers about what happened to them and family members. It turned out, not a small number of people over 50 had had appendicitis and in some cases it happened around the same time or shortly after they had had a bad cold or something. A couple of the women also had endometriosis issues that possibly impacted, not pun intended, their appendix.
Many times gynos will offer to take out an appendix if they are going to being doing lapo work on endometriosis, just to keep problems from occurring and so appendicitis can be ruled out if a woman ends having to go to the ER over right-sided pain that could be an ovary issues.