So last night around 6 PM I started having this pain in the very lowest part of my right abdomen. Ladies, you know how sometimes when it's that time of the month, your ovaries hurt? The pain was mostly coming from that same spot, only it was radiating upward and only on the right side instead of both sides. The pain was very bothersome. It caused me to sweat a little. I took a combination of tylenol and ibuprofen (my go-to for bad pain) as well as some simethicone (which is for gas, acid, bloating, etc) and none of it helped at all. If anything, the pain got worse. I was excercising and doing some stuff around the house, and eventually I just had to stop and sit down because it hurt too much. I thought resting would help, but it didn't. I sat on the couch and tried to watch TV, but I was still very uncomfortable. Eventually I turned off the TV show and just panicked instead. Not long after, quite a lot of air started to come out of both ends, if you know what I mean (Sorry, I know that's gross, but it's an important detail!). I immediately felt totally better and went to bed. In the middle of the night I woke up because the dog was barking, and I noticed that the pain was back, although it hurt much less than it had earlier that evening. The pain was very minimal, and if I hadn't been trying to sleep I probably would've barely noticed it. I also noticed that it was radiating higher than it had before, almost to the bottom of my ribs. I had a little bit of trouble getting back to sleep/getting comfortable because of it, but it wasn't too bad. I noticed it felt a bit better if I layed on my left side. It is now 1 PM the next day, and the pain has remained the same- a constant dull ache in my lower right abdomen, coming from the very bottom of my abdomen, with a feeling of discomfort too. Sometimes it radiates a little to my thigh and back. It's difficult to be at ease feeling like this. It's the kind of pain where I know that if increased, it would be agonizing. It hasn't gone away since it started up again in the middle of the night. I have no other symptoms so far. No nausea or anything like that. I checked for rebound tenderness and there wasn't any.
I'm just so scared that it's appendicitis and I'll have to go to the hospital. My biggest fear is that I'll end up in the hospital all alone, isolated from family, with needles stuck in me (HUGE needle phobia here) and having to get surgery, my biggest fear of all. I'm so scared about this that I could cry.
I'm just so scared that it's appendicitis and I'll have to go to the hospital. My biggest fear is that I'll end up in the hospital all alone, isolated from family, with needles stuck in me (HUGE needle phobia here) and having to get surgery, my biggest fear of all. I'm so scared about this that I could cry.
