# OUCH! My appendix!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-my-appendix/119383>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 17, 2002, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-my-appendix/119383 "2002-07-17T10:52:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Seven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Seven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seven)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 10:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-my-appendix/119383/1 "2002-07-17T10:52:59Z")

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Pain in right side lower abdomen. I’m sure it’s nothing.

But in case it is my appendix and it bursts, I’m packing this tape deck around with me. What a cool kick drum sound that could make.

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**Author:** ![kevals](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/fbc32d/32.png) [@kevals](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevals)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-my-appendix/119383/2 "2002-07-17T12:11:36Z")

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If it’s your appendix, you’ll know.  
One fateful morning you’ll wake up with agonizing pain in your abdomen and the only thing you’ll want is to get it out. That’s when a good driver who knows what hospital to take you to will come in handy. Hopefully it is nothing, had mone out, it sucked.  
I wonder what kind of sound it would make?? hmmm… maybe you’re on to somethign there.

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**Author:** ![peedin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peedin/32/14095_2.png) [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 12:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-my-appendix/119383/3 "2002-07-17T12:32:05Z")

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A ruptured appendix is nothing to laugh about. Mine burst, went undiagnosed for 3 days, gangrened and I ended up in the hospital for 10 days. Doc says there was so much infection he wondered that I lived. And I prayed for death the pain was so bad. Plus I developed hemhorroids from laying in bed for a month afterwards.

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**Author:** ![Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@Crepitus\_Fremitus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crepitus_Fremitus)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-my-appendix/119383/4 "2002-07-17T12:42:48Z")

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I see a Darwin award in your future.

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**Author:** ![JBERGES](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ed8c4c/32.png) [@JBERGES](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JBERGES)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2002, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ouch-my-appendix/119383/5 "2002-07-17T15:24:20Z")

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Uh…seriously. If you’re still in pain now, have that checked out.  
If I hadn’t been taken to the hospital that day, I would have ended up in **peedin** ’s position.

And I didn’t just _know_ it was my appendix…