If you go up onto your toes or kind of like onto the balls of your feet and tiptoe and then quickly drop down to your heels, if you feel a pretty shooting and stabbing pain, a pretty strong shooting stabbing pain in that lower right side where the appendix is, kind of unlike your stomach, it is probably appendicitis. And so yeah, that's an easy way to tell if you are symptomatic of appendicitis or if it's something else.
So I had appendicitis when I was 11, and when that happened, at first I thought it was like a stomach ache, like there was a pain in my lower stomach area, like my tummy, and you know, I was trying to fall asleep and I couldn't, my parents were still awake, thank goodness, and I asked them, like, hey, my stomach hurts, can I get something, and they said, okay, here's some Pepto-Bismol pill tablets to try and see if that helped. I took it, and the pain didn't go away, and so, you know, I'm trying to fall asleep, but I can't, and I approached my parents again, yeah, it still hurts down there, and my dad's, you know, he's an anesthesiologist, he knows all about physiology and how the body works, and he's like, yeah, you probably have appendicitis, like, does it hurt when I, you know, push on your tummy down there where your appendix is, and I'm like, yeah, it really hurts, so, yeah, that's when you know when you have appendicitis.
So I had appendicitis a couple years ago and my symptoms were very different than your standard symptoms. It just happened differently than they say it does and it started by just having stomach pain and it was kind of just all over. It wasn't in any one specific spot and within an hour of that and I thought I was going to be having some like intestinal issues but after about an hour it was making me so nauseous that I threw up a couple times and the pain actually started in my upper right quadrant of my abdominal and it took about 36 hours for the pain to move down to the area where you typically have pain with appendicitis. So my main symptoms were just general stomach pain, nausea, yeah.