How long until you felt "back to normal" following a lap. appendectomy?

Post date: 2020-09-27 19:10:55

About a month ago, I went to the ER for appendicitis. When they took it out, they said it was necrotic and had ruptured at some unknown point earlier. I was in the hospital for 4 days and then they sent me home with ten days of antibiotics. While I'm basically healed now, I still have weird, migrating stomach and abdominal pains, and bloating (2 or 3 on pain scale.) How was it for you?

YNMD. I have no fever, nausea, diarrhea, or unreasonably tender areas to my stomach. My sutures have healed well from the laparoscopic surgery. Bowel movements normal. But every couple days I have uncomfortable stomach aches. And frequently on other days I have sort of phantom pains in my abdominal area (below belly button.) Sometimes left side, sometimes right side, sometimes near my bladder. I don't want to go in for an in-person exam unless I have to - and the virtual visits with my GP have amounted to a shrug and "sometimes it takes a while to heal."

But it's been a month. Is this kind of weird floating phantom pain normal for post-appendectomy? And if not, what might be causing it? It gets worse with gas and if I have a full bladder. Thanks.

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