Puzzled - is ds all right?

[SixImpossible]

7yo ds has been groaning and miserable from a stitch in his side for nearly an hour and a half now. We've tried all sorts of things, including ignoring and distraction, but nothing seems to help.

Is there anything else it could be? Should I be worried? He doesn't have a temp or feel nauseous.

I would be worried about appendicitis. How did he get the stitch? Was he running really fast? A stitch doesn't just appear out of nowhere.

Which side?

It's high on his left.

I thought maybe trapped wind, though its a bit high for that, but none of our usual trapped-wind strategies worked. He is prone to trapped wind.

I've sent him to have a warm shower, purely on the basis that water helped ease my labour pains with him!

AFAIK he wasn't running around. It seems like a stitch, hurts all the time but worse when he breathes.

I was thinking appendicitis too

No nausea, no temperature, hungry.

He could have pulled one of the intercostal muscles, but I would get him checked to rule out the appendix.

Isn't appendicitis more on the right side? Are his ribs alright..or his back?

Appendicitis pain can be referred to either side

He seems a little better. Still groaning and uncomfy, but having conversations.

He says that his only comfortable position is on elbows and knees (a bit like the knee-chest-uphill position for slowing down labour).

I would take into the walk-in centre, it really seems as though he needs to be seen to and as it's Friday now you won't be getting an appointment at the GP tomorrow.

constipation?

He's fine now.

It started easing around 4pm, and at 6 when I went to call the dc for supper I found him bouncing on the trampoline!

This is the boy who a few years ago would go from 100% normal to 40C in 2h, and be back to 100% normal less than 24h later.

I guess he needed something more with which to bewilder me. At least this was less scarey.