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That people in their 50s don't get appendicitis?

99 replies

lolaflores · 11/02/2023 18:10

Pain in my right side. NOt unbearable pain but bloody uncomfortable. Like a knot just beside my pelvis.
Been coming and going for a week.
Had gallbladder out December. Surgeon told me I Have loads of adhesions around the general area.

But I keep thinking, it's not my appendix is it? At 55?
No temperature.
No appetite but no vomiting.
I'm buggered if I know what to do but AIBU to think I'm too old for appendix?
And I love hearing peoples appendix legends and stories so feel free to chip in.

OP posts:
CoalCraft · 11/02/2023 18:12

Anyone who has an appendix can get appendicitis! Get it checked OP, if it is appendicitis and it goes untreated it could rupture, which is life threatening.

Needmorelego · 11/02/2023 18:12

Appendicitis is not age related in the slightest.

Chevyimpala67 · 11/02/2023 18:12

My 70 year old friend got it

Hoardasurass · 11/02/2023 18:13

My mum did

Christmaspyjamas · 11/02/2023 18:14

Weird

Original poster
lolaflores · 11/02/2023 18:16

I went back to the surgeon o Thursday he had a poke about. The pain had settled but he didn't even mention appendix.
But I'm here thinking what else could it be?
So age isn't any factor in it?
Always thought it was only the younger ones

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WishUponAStar88 · 11/02/2023 18:18

Needmorelego · 11/02/2023 18:12

Appendicitis is not age related in the slightest.

It is in that it is far more common in between ages 10 and 30 but anyone can get it it’s just rarer in other age groups.

StillMedusa · 11/02/2023 18:18

I had mine out at 50!

olympicsrock · 11/02/2023 18:18

Appendicitis can happen at any age. There are peaks at the younger and older age groups.

TheSingingBean · 11/02/2023 18:23

I know two people who have had it recently, both in their 60s.

SouthCountryGirl · 11/02/2023 18:24

My dad has his out when he was 51. My grandma was 78.

IsThisNameTaken · 11/02/2023 18:26

DH had appendicitis at 54 last year

GracePooleslaugh · 11/02/2023 18:27

My uncle had his removed in his 70's

Jotters · 11/02/2023 18:33

My partner was in hospital a few years ago across from a man in his 50s who's appendix ruptured. He'd been to A&E a few times and the doctors kept telling him he was too old for it to be appendicitis as you don't get it after 40 years old. Well they were clearly wrong.

GoldilockMom · 11/02/2023 18:37

Friends husband was 52

Tansytea · 11/02/2023 18:38

My grandmother was in her 70s when she had appendicitis. If you have an appendix you can get it. A friend had it in her 40s, I don't think there's any reason why you shouldn't have it.

Original poster
lolaflores · 11/02/2023 18:40

See, that's the thing. I fully expect if I went to a&e (this has happened before) to be told it can't be appendix as I'm too old, they're super busy so I won't be a priority and just sent away.

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lolaflores · 11/02/2023 18:41

Having said that, coming onto Mumsnet doesn't mean anyone here can take it (them?) Out for me on a Zoom chat but hey. First time for everything

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MissLucyEyelesbarrow · 11/02/2023 18:42

Anyone who has an appendix can get appendicitis

This. And even some people who don’t think they have got one, because an operation for possible appendicitis doesn’t always = appendix removed.

As an urgent care doctor, I never rule out appendicitis unless I have definite evidence that the patient has already had theirs removed.

SuperSpingtime · 11/02/2023 18:42

I had sporadic pain for years. Eventually I woke up in so much agony that I couldn't breathe. Went to hospital and they said I was too old for appendicitis until I had a scan. Emergency surgery and later I found out that it was pre cancerous. A sort that if it had developed into cancer was incurable. I was in my sixties.

JassyRadlett · 11/02/2023 18:43

My MIL had hers burst on her last year; she's 70.

Judellie · 11/02/2023 18:44

My mum worked as a nurse; the oldest patient they ever had with appendicitis was 91.

RedRosie · 11/02/2023 18:45

I did. It's probably not that, but I would get checked out as I left it a bit long, it ruptured and I was very ill and in hospital for a week.

Main symptoms: vague pain (not that bad), vomiting, complete aversion to food. By the time I got to A&E the pain had almost gone but I had a raging temperature and a implausibly fast heart rate. Luckily, it was diagnosed very quickly on a scan.

Pennina · 11/02/2023 18:46

I had mine taken out at 55! It started with pain right in the centre of my stomach by my bellybutton, Fatigue, nausea.

I thought it might of been something I had eaten but I had only had a very light vegetarian pasta type lunch. I remember being completely exhausted.

I went to bed and wake up early evening and the pain was worse and starting to move to my lower right area. I still felt nauseous and very tired. Slept fitfully, pain woke me up a few times. By the morning I was in agony and my husband took me to A&E. CT scan and admitted by lunchtime.

Selfesteem22 · 11/02/2023 18:47

I had bad stomach pains which I though might be appendicitis and went to A&E - they took me seriously and I had a CAT scan -.it wasn't but was v glad to be checked out

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