[ConservativeMind]

As long as it is closely monitored, this seems a great option over surgery and having to stay in the hospital, risking a hospital-acquired infection.

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[Gay State Conservative]

Call me old fashioned but I'd want the surgery. Antibiotics is just a way for insurance companies (and the government) to save money.

[Jim Noble]

This does work.

And, from a neutral point of view, if 90% of young healthy people with appendicitis can be managed medically, that’s great.

But trial lawyers do not have a neutral point of view.

When noninvasive treatment fails (which does happen), the cleanup can be worse than the appendectomy which didn’t happen originally.

[Sans-Culotte]

Had my appendix removed in May. Arrived at hospital ER on Friday night, had it removed Saturday morning, went home Sunday afternoon.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Interesting...my nephew’s wife just had surgery for appendicitis two weeks ago!

[mewzilla]

I wonder how much of this is about the risk of nosocomial infection while in the hospital.

Folks better start asking...

[hecticskeptic]

I do some hiking and canoeing in quite remote areas... gone for weeks at a time. In immediate family, several older siblings have had their appendectomy and it always gives me pause for thought as I get deeper from civilization....I wonder if I could talk my doctor into giving me a prescription to use in the event of an emergency.....

[RouxStir]

I worked at a hospital where they removed the appendix of virtually everyone who was hospitalized. It was a running joke...we’d ask everyone walking in or being wheeled in if they were there for an appendectomy...if not, we would tell them we had a special running “today only” if they wanted it removed.

[jonascord]

Mine ruptured the day after New Year. Thought it was a muscle strain, but went in anyway. Two days of silver bullet antibiotics, and I went home with an abdominal drain.

Had it removed with a one day stay, arrived in the morning, out that evening, the following year, three small holes. It only took that long because of Covid, and the VA wasn't accepting "elective" procedures.

[Bonemaker]

I’ll have mine removed before that beauty decides to rupture!

[BlackAdderess]

Well if it works, great. I had mine out, and there was absolutely no mystery that something was seriously wrong as I couldn’t even hold down water. If the antibiotics aren’t working, hopefully the symptoms will alert the patient that something badly needs to be done. My biggest problem was that I got bounced from doctor to doctor because they all thought I was pregnant. I nearly died as a result of the delay because of that.

[mjp]

I had appendicitis treated with antibiotics rather than surgery 3 years ago. No problems since then

[UnwashedPeasant]

My understanding is that Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) can easily treat appendicitis with a short-term herbal treatment.

If you have a good TCM practitioner near you, it is worth checking out for this condition or any other condition where the standard of care for Western Medicine includes surgery.

[csvset]

In my lifetime I have seen on two different occasions, a person literally rolling on the ground howling in pain due to their appendix having gone bad.

[Salvation]

When ruptured? I doubt it. Mopping up the poison is very important — surgery is required.