Have had a weird stomach bug thing going on for a week now....
BUT
Since about 4 or 5 days before it started, I've lost 24.6 lbs.
Really insane how much I lost...hope I can stick to it when I'm back to 100%.
Never did come back and post after this, but that "Stomach Bug" thing was actually appendicitis. Doc said he had never heard of someone having an attack and then just powering thru for 10-14 days before seeing a doctor. But I did. Not sure if that's something to be proud of or ashamed of. But it happened.
Now that I'm appendix free, I have been in more stomach pain than ever before. I think I either pulled a stomach muscle or ripped something inside RIGHT AFTER my post-op visit. Like we went to my Grandma's for lunch and I was sitting in this old rocking chair she has and I tried to stand up, but the chair sits too low to the ground and I kinda got stuck in it (old furniture does not accommodate my big ass) and ended up having to use more core strength than expected and got to a point where I either had to push thru and stand up or plop backward into her old chair that was right in front of her china cabinet. I chose the former and screeched out in pain.
I rested and relaxed and tried to get thru the muscle pains and they seemed to go away about 3 or 4 days ago...the pains were right above my incision areas, so I don't think it was a hernia...no bulging, fever, nausea, redness, or pain when pushed on.
But about 2 days ago I started getting this insanely intense indescribable pain in my stomach muscle area. Like its toward my belly button, and doesn't feel like anything I've ever felt before. It feels like my skin is literally tearing apart at the seams...ya know...if there was a seam there. The only thing I kinda can compare it to is when you have like a really strong, tight bandaid on your skin, but you put it on wrong and when you straighten or bend the joint near it, it pulls on the skin and hair in that area....just multiplied by a factor of 100. It happens anytime I bend or reach or even just sitting sometimes. I've looked up all symptoms of muscle tears and hernias, and this really doesn't seem to be it, but I am making an appointment Monday to see a doc. Just not sure whether to see the doc that did my Appendectomy or my PCP....I'm fairly certain my PCP will forward me back to the other doc, so I'll probably go to him. (BTW, it was a robotic appendectomy, so I'm like 22% sure the pain is just part of the assimilation process and I am on my way to becoming a cyborg [But for real tho...a (human controlled) robot operated on me....that sounds so cool for some reason]).
Any doctors feel free to offer up some advice. If it IS a muscle tear or hernia, how are they diagnosed? If it's a hernia is that an automatic trip back to the
emergency* room? [*EDIT: OOPS...I meant
OPERATING ROOM*] What should I expect? THANKS!