appendicitis at my age?

[stringbreaker]

Monday brought a new milestone in my life. Appendicitis at age 72, kind of unusual but not unheard of. I think it may have been the most painful experience of my life even more than my knee surgeries. Came on like a pulled muscle in my side and got increasingly worse till Monday evening we went to the urgent care. got the news it had to come out. All went according to Hoyle and I'm on the mend today was the best day so far. I think I'm over the hump so to speak.

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[Chris M]

Monday brought a new milestone in my life. Appendicitis at age 72, kind of unusual but not unheard of. I think it may have been the most painful experience of my life even more than my knee surgeries. Came on like a pulled muscle in my side and got increasingly worse till Monday evening we went to the urgent care. got the news it had to come out. All went according to Hoyle and I'm on the mend today was the best day so far. I think I'm over the hump so to speak.

Hoping for a quick recovery for you.
Pace yourself!

 

[Superspirit]

Praying for the best.

 

[AzScorpion]

Glad you're on the mend and on the road to recovery. I really never gave it much thought on getting appendicitis as you got older because all the cases I've heard of were from younger people. Those I knew that had it said it was very painful and nothing to mess with, Annies brother died from it back in '65. Now that's something else I've got to (possibly) look forward to as I age.

 

[21rangerCactus]

On the opposite end.

I had shingles in my mid 30s. For weeks I thought it was a pulled chest muscle. At the time I owned a bread route, which was a really physically demanding job with not much sleep...so pulled muscle made sense to me.

It finally got so bad I thought I was having another heart episode, I have brugada syndrome. So I went to the ER told them I have brugada and Im having an episode. They took my shirt off and seen the small bumps.... "you have shingles!". So while very painful it was better then having an episode.

Dr and nurses couldn't believe I lasted as long as I did with the pain. I had no choice. As an "independent distributor" you don't get days off and you don't call in sick.

 

[LB'sTremor]

Monday brought a new milestone in my life. Appendicitis at age 72, kind of unusual but not unheard of. I think it may have been the most painful experience of my life even more than my knee surgeries. Came on like a pulled muscle in my side and got increasingly worse till Monday evening we went to the urgent care. got the news it had to come out. All went according to Hoyle and I'm on the mend today was the best day so far. I think I'm over the hump so to speak.

Glad you are healing, I gotta admint I had a flashback when I saw "according to Hoyle"

 

[dtech]

did they ask you to rate your pain level on a 1 to 10 scale , I've found that to be an odd question.

I suffered my 1st kidney stone at 3am while on a backpacking trip 10 miles from the car, couldn't sleep so walked around the campsite for several hrs cursing before hiking out. that was the least enjoyable hike ever.

hope you heal quickly.

 

[stringbreaker]

did they ask you to rate your pain level on a 1 to 10 scale , I've found that to be an odd question.

I suffered my 1st kidney stone at 3am while on a backpacking trip 10 miles from the car, couldn't sleep so walked around the campsite for several hrs cursing before hiking out. that was the least enjoyable hike ever.

hope you heal quickly.

Yes the 1 to 10 question and let me tell ya a couple of times it was definitely a 10 with Dilauden (sp) it would go down to about 4 or 5 but only for about an hour

 

[mrmike7189]

did they ask you to rate your pain level on a 1 to 10 scale , I've found that to be an odd question.

I suffered my 1st kidney stone at 3am while on a backpacking trip 10 miles from the car, couldn't sleep so walked around the campsite for several hrs cursing before hiking out. that was the least enjoyable hike ever.

hope you heal quickly.

I had my 1st kidney stone at age 19. I was youngest patient in my urologists office. I'm 55 now and I still go to same urologist office. I've had about 5 more stones since then. Those little mothers hurt

 

[dtech]

I had my 1st kidney stone at age 19. I was youngest patient in my urologists office. I'm 55 now and I still go to same urologist office. I've had about 5 more stones since then. Those little mothers hurt

Could have posted this in the Darwin thread as mine was totally self inflicted, on backpack trips we'd weigh the packs - often > 65lbs inc a 12 back of beer, I never used to carry much water and being a hard a*s (= dumb sh*t) I'd berate my comanions when they stopped to rest and replenish fluids. Perfect way to develop a stone, had 3 more and then yrs later had to have laser surgery to remove several bladder stones, likley kidney stones that got stuck in bladder.

 

[Friday yet?]

Had my appendix out at 19. Many years ago. Always thought it was a young person’s issue until your post.

Good luck @stringbreaker . No doubt a bit tougher to heal at this point in life than it was at my 19 years of age.

 

[Joeiconic]

I’m at the other extreme, I‘m 62 and had my appendix out at 5 years old! I’ve had two kidney stones and if there’s something that hurts worse that that, I don’t want any part of it.

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