Cancer of the appendix, the small pouch-like organ attached to the large intestine that supports the immune system, affects 1 or 2 people for every million people in the U.S., according to the research.
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I had it removed years ago when i was a kid.
Did yours also hurt so bad that it felt like your balls were being crushed?
I don’t get the chance to ask this often, but apparently mine was near rupture, and I’d really like to hear others’ experiences.
I was very young at the time, like 5 years old so the only thing i remember is feeling pain in my intestinal area.
I partial ruptured back a couple decades ago. The memory has faded but I remember my abdomen hurting so bad I could barely sit. I was laid up for a week before a parent brought me to the ER. Needless to say, it was an experience I do not wish to repeat ever. Wouldnt use ball crushing as more whenever I moved it felt like someone kicked me in them, hard.
Well that is one thing I’ll never have. My appendix got removed years ago.
This is an odd one. Microplastics?
Could also be better diagnostics. A lot of diseases are becoming much more common just because we can recognise them more easily.
I wouldn’t be surprised. Or plastics… or steroids in meat… Or metals like Teflon.
Teflon is not an issue, the problem is the stuff used to make teflon
We’ve been pumping epic volumes of literally thousands of untested chemical compounds into the environment for over a century.
It’s probably all of the above.
Teflon is not a metal but a PFAS or forever chemical made of Carbon and Fluorine.
My main suspect was increased red meat/cured meat consumption, but it doesn’t seem like the data actually supports that theory.
Yeah I never had appendicitis but always found it odd there are so many who do all of a sudden. If this organ was so prone to failure all the time would it have not been gone ages ago?
It’s actually thought to be benificial. The old notion that it’s some remnant from before is considered wrong today, and it seems that different mammals evolved an appendix parallel to each other.
I seem to remember an article saying that the appendix is used by the body to store gut bacteria, as a reserve in case the gut bacteria in the intestines are killed off by disease or something similar.
I’m one of those people. Got it randomly at age 33 or so. I did eat taco bell for the first time in a long time the night before, and I don’t think the 2 are unrelated. But yeah dude sepsis isn’t fun. Shaking uncontrollably involuntary is 100% 0/10. At 1st I was glad they cut that useless fucking time bomb out, but since then, my body is fucking terrible about managing bacterial infections. I’ve had strep, and a bunch of ear / sinus infections and taken antibiotics, but the shit will not go away. They say that they think the appendix is some kind of bacterial filter, and I’m inclined to agree. In hindsight, I wish I’d asked for an antibiotic based treatment plan since they caught it before my appendix burst, but hey, hindsight is 20/20.
Appendixes have been known medical problems for a long time. You can read books talking about it from the 1800s. One of the few things doctors could treat back then better than doing nothing (back before antibiodics and handwashing doctors were often worse than nothing)
there were many other things that could get you bacv then so overall apendix issues were not the most common causes of death.
Isnt that kinda whats happening? Its on its way out and misbehaving along the way.
“If I go, I’m taking you with me!” - Appendix
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*Gen Y
Nah, we’re too cool to be a letter generation.
