Appendicitis

My daughter had her's out at 9/10 then 4 years ago I had,64! Surgeon said unusual at my age...🤣. Then my ex at age 60! Only my youngest daughter not had her's out....

I had mine out when I was 33. Undiluted agony. The GP told me to go to A&E as he suspected appendicitis but when the surgeon exposed my appendix, it was fine but removed it anyway. He then went searching through my abdomen to find the cause. It turned out to be an ovarian cyst which had burst. I'd had no idea I even had one. In those days (early 80's) I had 10 days in hospital.

I don't know if there's a genetic link, but my father, my son, and myself all had emergency appendectomies when we were young.
We don't seem to hear much about appendicitis these days, for whatever reason.

I was thinking exactly the same thing, when I was 10 in 1953 and my sister 8 in 1955, we both had to have our appendix out. I can still remember a trolley full of children being wheeled down to the operating theatre, we were all sitting on the trolley and I can remember the massive Black gas thing they put over your nose and mouth and you could smell the gas before they put you to sleep. I was off school for 10 weeks and I remember my mum giving me cod liver oil every day to keep my going to the toilet on a regular basis.

I had a “grumbling” appendix when I was 20, sooo painful, couldn’t bear it to be touched, but the doctor decided to starve it into submission - three days with no food! I suppose it worked as I’m now 84 but with hindsight it would’ve been better to have had it gone.

I had mine out when I was 14, I had to stay on an adult ward and was mortified from being asked loudly if I’d opened my bowels.
No one else in my family has had theirs out.

Had mine out aged 17- I remember the specialist & junior dr arguing behind the curtain whether mine was inflamed or was I suffering from constipation, whipped it out anyway & kept me in bed for a week (late 80s). Now you would be in & out of hospital same day probably