I’m not freaking out, but am puzzled as to why this happens.
I’m 43, and had an appendectomy at age 8. It had ruptured, so I did have a case of peritonitis to deal with too.
My surgical scar aches/burns occasionally, and I’ve never been able to deduce a pattern. It doesn’t seem to relate to my menstrual cycle, what I’ve been eating, or anything else I can think of.
I had the same thing when I was 28. Ruptured, peritonitis, and the surgeon put the wrong kind of stitches in the inside . . . the kind that don’t dissolve. I was still rejecting stitches through the skin, 2 years later.
Anyway . . . it does get a little painful from time to time, though it’s been 39 years. It usually happens when I’ve gained weight and the skin is pulling on it.
I broke my right arm when I was 10, over 30 years ago now and it still aches sometimes.
I have a scar from a bayonet wound on my left arm. It occasionally hurts, but since it was a fairly shallow wound I have always assumed that the pain is psychosomatic, although I guess it’s possible that the scar tissue presses against a nerve.
Is it at all possible that your surgeon was a dark wizard who is, of late, returning to this world?
Uh-oh. The OP is a Horcrux!
Adhesions, perhaps?
I still experience twinges from where my gallbladder used to be. Just twinges, nothing major, and always inside (the skin incisions are all fine),