emergency appendectimy

[buddybikes]

Arm chair doctors here. So had an appendectimy yesterday AM, worst thing was the complete dry mouth from anethesa and being pumped with pounds of fluid with post cathater issues. Now home, lost 4.5lbs overnight from loosing most the fluid. I heard lots of generalities getting back on bike, not intense or climbing. From 2 weeks to when you feel you can, even few days. Beautiful morning, dry 65 degrees and my Firefly is lookng at me. I just focused back lifting again over past month to help back out, and muscle mass back from my fusion. This was a clear month at least to wait.

Enjoy your rides today!

[oldpotatoe]

Originally Posted by steveandbarb1

Arm chair doctors here. So had an appendectimy yesterday AM, worst thing was the complete dry mouth from anethesa and being pumped with pounds of fluid with post cathater issues. Now home, lost 4.5lbs overnight from loosing most the fluid. I heard lots of generalities getting back on bike, not intense or climbing. From 2 weeks to when you feel you can, even few days. Beautiful morning, dry 65 degrees and my Firefly is lookng at me. I just focused back lifting again over past month to help back out, and muscle mass back from my fusion. This was a clear month at least to wait.

Enjoy your rides today!

Yikes, my son had one of these when he was 10 years old..just felt poor for a while..then to ER..appendix had burst..'can' be dangerous..glad you woke up on the 'other side'..the drugs, constipation, etc, are the worse..Good luck..let your body tell you when and if...

[Cicli]

Yeah,
I worked for a week with appendicitis. Thought I had a Taco Bell burrito stuck in my colon. Then it ruptured. I spend about 10 days in the hospital and lost 25 lbs.
glad you cought it in time. Waiting and trying to walk it off was the worst thing I have done in a while.

[OtayBW]

Originally Posted by steveandbarb1

post cathater issues...

Yeesh! Good luck with the recovery!

[buddybikes]

On only tylenol post surgery. Had general upper GI weirdness the bit of slight nausea, then moderate pain, in right flank -but almost like it was a muscle pull. Bit of temp is what pushed me in. My appendix was hooked in odd location making surgeon work more (she stopped me in the halld to comment about it), but caught very early, glad I didn't listen to my wife and got to ER.

Long night - 1st time pulling an overnighter since childhood.

[Mikej]

I had one several years ago- I remember neck pain from the gas the blow to see during the operation ? And I remember thinking I don't need oxy, 'till it wore off.

[William]

Speedy recovery my friend.

Mine burst, abscessed, and then the abscess burst. I had been going to my doctor for intermittent stomach pain (like eating bad food), but it wasn't bad. Dr. commented that if it was my appendix I would know it from the pain. Well, one nasty night, not sure where I am, can't get up, bouncy painful ambulance ride, surgery to remove the mess and remove a few feet of intestines as well...no problem. Of course my former doc commented afterward..." should have remembered, with all your years of martial arts training you're used to pain".

A bad appendix is no joke. I'm very happy you are on the mend.










William

[ripvanrando]

Mine ruptured ten years ago. Post operative infection was my main problem. I think I was back 3 weeks later iirc.

It took about 6 hours in the ER before they did a CT and saw it was ruptured. They kept asking my pain level and I'd say just a little less than when trying to hang with the A group going over elevator shaft climb. I guess we miscommunicated

[thwart]

Glad to hear it was diagnosed and treated quickly and appropriately.

Pain actually gets better when it ruptures... but... then bad things happen fast.

When to get back on the bike... ? I'd stay in touch with the surgeon/her staff. There's a variable recovery time for different folks, so she's really the one to say when you're good to go.

[earlfoss]

A friend had this surgery less than a month ago. He is an idiot and jumped back into racing 2 weeks later! I wouldn't recommend that to anyone, but from what I understand the recovery is quick and you're back to normal in a jiffy.

[Fatty]

Mine burst at the ripe old age of 24. Area around it went sepsis or septic.
Sat in a hospital bed a couple days while they flushed me out. Got to see inside my abdomen. Good times.

Your Doctor's advice about when getting back on the bike is probably best.

Healing vibes sent your way.

[John H.]

About 2 years ago my wife had a day where she didn't feel so hot.
By afternoon she had what she thought was a stomach ache.
Got worse so she went to here GP (same day).
She was admitted to hospital at 7 pm. Appendix out by 10 pm. Home by 8 am next day.
Back to normal activities in a couple days.

[daker13]

My daughter (13) had hers rupture last fall. She had to spend a week in the hospital due to risk of sepsis. It was scary as hell for us, but she was a real trooper. Took her several weeks to recover. She shared the room with several kids whose appendixes hadn't burst, and had had regular appendectomies, and they were in and out of the hospital the next day. A ruptured appendix (let alone what William went thru--ruptured appendix, heals with an abcess, then that bursts) is a whole different animal. So you might be up and about sooner than you think.

BTW, I once met a guy whose appendix had ruptured on an airplane and the plane did an emergency landing. He was drinking booze when I met him two weeks later, at a party, and he insisted the doctor told him it was fine (but come to think of it, maybe his appendix hadn't actually ruptured).

Speedy recovery, and good call heading to the ER.

[regularguy412]

[QUOTE=ripvanrando;2034017]Mine ruptured ten years ago. Post operative infection was my main problem. I think I was back 3 weeks later iirc.

It took about 6 hours in the ER before they did a CT and saw it was ruptured. They kept asking my pain level and I'd say just a little less than when trying to hang with the A group going over elevator shaft climb. I guess we miscommunicated[/QUOTE]


WOW great analogy. Sorry bout your issue, but the comment did make me laugh out loud.

Mike in AR

[purpurite]

William, I had a similar event to you in 2000. Mine burst, thought it was bad food, then it abscessed and snuck behind my spleen. Took 6 doctors a week of tests with me dying in a hospital bed to figure out it was my appendix. Like you, the pain wasn't much more than bad gas, so they all discounted the rupture as nothing, even though they all knew I had never had an appendectomy. A 6 hour surgery and they cleaned everything out inside.

I spent another 3 weeks in the hospital recovering on antibiotics I could taste for months, then 2 weeks learning how to walk all over again. I still can feel the scar tissue if I stretch out on the floor. Lost 22 pounds, which for me was about 18% of my total body weight. Surgeon said a few days after I was released from the hospital that I was about 12 hours from being dead had they not got the gangrened appendix and toxins out when they did.

Fun stuff.