Here is a little background information on me:
I started my period when I was 12 years old. Due to high stress at home and school, I was always irregular, sometimes I would go for months without having a period, and even a year one time. Never had painful periods, but they would just start with no warning. They were always hard to predict. My first time at sex was 19 years old, I am now 23 years old. A little over 2 years ago I had to have my appendix removed. Ever since the age of 7 I have fought with chronic appendicitis which was never taken care of until my appendix started to leak and trying to rupture. When doctors finally took me into OR I had been waiitng for 16 hours and they found that had they left it for another hour it would have gone. Why I am telling everyone this is because I never had painful periods. The first period I had after my appendectomy [took 2 months for it to start after the surgery] I had such a massive panic attack from all the pain I had to be rushed to the ER by amublance. I am someone who can withstand almost any pain as I am an ex horseback rider. Now I have bad periods where I cannot get out of bed hardly, bleed for a week but cramp and get nausea 3 days before my period and 2 days after, large clots and I go through a tampon every 30 min to an hour for the first 4 days, then it gets light. I have also noticed that it is bright red, runny, and again has those clots in it [think silver dollar and lots of em!]. I went to the ER last year because of my period. I started throwing up, severe pain and was changing tampons ever 10 min o.O Doctor there wanted to do ultrasound but they had to change doctors. New doctor came in, told me it was a virus on top of a bad cycle and to go home and take pills. No ultrasound was done, I was given a shot for the throwing up and pain, then some pills. I do not have health insurance and no job. I cannot go to my local health department as they are not a free service here. I have to pay $20, and I refuse to ask my friends to loan it to me. I also have four degenerating discs in my back, a curvature in my spine, and two pinched nerves. When my period starts my back really goes nuts. So I know that most of these symptoms are not regular, I was wondering if anyone out there has had these types of periods after an appendectomy and could it be that the surgery did something to my uterus especially since the appendix was leaking? I am tired of eating 45 vicodin one week out of every month. There are health concerns that run in my family with this. Inflammatory Pelvis Disease, Ovarian Cysts, Ovarian Tumors, Ovarian Cancer, and endometriosis. My mother had to have a hysterectomy due to a combo of Inflammatory Pelvic Disease, Ovarian Cysts, and Ovarian Tumor, all which luckly did not turn into cancer but did cause her to have seizures until she was spayed 8) Last time I had an exam done was two years ago, 3 months after my appendectomy and they claimed that through palpation they felt nothing going on although nothing but palps were done.
I started my period when I was 12 years old. Due to high stress at home and school, I was always irregular, sometimes I would go for months without having a period, and even a year one time. Never had painful periods, but they would just start with no warning. They were always hard to predict. My first time at sex was 19 years old, I am now 23 years old. A little over 2 years ago I had to have my appendix removed. Ever since the age of 7 I have fought with chronic appendicitis which was never taken care of until my appendix started to leak and trying to rupture. When doctors finally took me into OR I had been waiitng for 16 hours and they found that had they left it for another hour it would have gone. Why I am telling everyone this is because I never had painful periods. The first period I had after my appendectomy [took 2 months for it to start after the surgery] I had such a massive panic attack from all the pain I had to be rushed to the ER by amublance. I am someone who can withstand almost any pain as I am an ex horseback rider. Now I have bad periods where I cannot get out of bed hardly, bleed for a week but cramp and get nausea 3 days before my period and 2 days after, large clots and I go through a tampon every 30 min to an hour for the first 4 days, then it gets light. I have also noticed that it is bright red, runny, and again has those clots in it [think silver dollar and lots of em!]. I went to the ER last year because of my period. I started throwing up, severe pain and was changing tampons ever 10 min o.O Doctor there wanted to do ultrasound but they had to change doctors. New doctor came in, told me it was a virus on top of a bad cycle and to go home and take pills. No ultrasound was done, I was given a shot for the throwing up and pain, then some pills. I do not have health insurance and no job. I cannot go to my local health department as they are not a free service here. I have to pay $20, and I refuse to ask my friends to loan it to me. I also have four degenerating discs in my back, a curvature in my spine, and two pinched nerves. When my period starts my back really goes nuts. So I know that most of these symptoms are not regular, I was wondering if anyone out there has had these types of periods after an appendectomy and could it be that the surgery did something to my uterus especially since the appendix was leaking? I am tired of eating 45 vicodin one week out of every month. There are health concerns that run in my family with this. Inflammatory Pelvis Disease, Ovarian Cysts, Ovarian Tumors, Ovarian Cancer, and endometriosis. My mother had to have a hysterectomy due to a combo of Inflammatory Pelvic Disease, Ovarian Cysts, and Ovarian Tumor, all which luckly did not turn into cancer but did cause her to have seizures until she was spayed 8) Last time I had an exam done was two years ago, 3 months after my appendectomy and they claimed that through palpation they felt nothing going on although nothing but palps were done.
I do not take any birth control due to high health risks in me.
You are not the only one who has complained of painful menses after appendectomy. I know someone else who had the
EXACT sames symptoms after the surgery as you. No prior history of such menses. It only started after her appendectomy.
I never had any operation like that but I use to get horrible menstrual cycle I use to fear when my date use to come near at times I got admitted in the hospital with IV drips but from few months I have noticed the pain is fading away even though I didn't do anything much but it's going fine now I think according to me this a suggestion just try plz keep eating like drink lots and lots of water and eat fruits and avoid things which are hard for ur stomach to digest and drink as much water as possible plz this really works as I changed my diet chart I had started reducing pain believe me plz try this don't stay hungry just keep eating and eating don't care thinking that u will go fat u can take time out for jogging and ya drink lot of water :) follow this plz
I know this was written a year ago. But I wanted to let you know if you read this that I have the same problem. I had my appendix removed 2 1/2 months ago. It took 2 months to have my period again. I had it for a day and it was massive clots. Then it stopped. A week later I started it again this time it lasted a full 7 days. And by a full 7 days I mean extremely heavy bleeding and clotting for 7 days. I was going through 1 extra heavy flow pad an hour and the smell was very strong. I have never had any real odor from my cycle before. And silver dollar size clots were coming out consistently. The cramping was incredibly painful, nothing like I have ever had before. I was vomiting, cold sweats felt like I would pass out from the pain. Finally now the 9th day, it has almost come to a stop. I called the doctor and he didn't seem like it had anything to do with the surgery. However, I don't know what else would suddenly cause it. I also do not have health insurance so I cannot afford to go to various specialists. If anyone has found any help or info. on this please post, it would be greatly appreciated.
I've had the exact same feeling!
I have the same problem at the min. I went in for my appendix to be removed on the 4 th October ( A very bad appendix I might add) since I came out of hospital I've had chest pains that feel like a heart attack with vomiting doctors said it's acid reflux. I think there just fobbing me of but back to the problem I've literally just started my period yesturday and it's heavier than normal but with no coating. I also suffer from a bad back and black outs wich don't seem to b helping. Was just wondering if this problem has stopped for you and is it back to normal as I'm only on day 3 and it's really getting to me.
Hi, about 5 years ago I went through chemo which stopped my period and just 3 weeks ago I had my appendix out and now it looks like I have my period but not bad so I was wondering does having your appendix out bring on your period ?????
I had my appendix out in August, normal period on time right after. Then next month skipped, then started spotting and what seemed like a period for about 13 days, light, nothing for two days, then spotting again. Then nothing for 9 days. Light period for 5 days, spotting for four days, light period so far for 9 days. Ugh. I was normal before only heavy periods. Thankful for light ones but tired of the no stopping. When they did the CT scan for the appendix they said my woman stuff was fine. Don't think anything is wrong. I'm thinking kicked me into full perimenapause. I think I had the pre for the past five years. Sucks.
Sounds like endometriosis.
i recently got my appendix out in october, im 13 and have suffered with horrid menstrual cramps before but ever since my appendectomy the pain level had went from a 3-4 to a 9-10. it will last a few hours and i cannot help but squirm, nothing really seems to help besides ibuprofen but that always gives me a headache. its been like this for around 3 months now and even my flow has been heavier. ive been reading several things saying this should not affect your menstrual cycle but i honestly believe it is. i just hope it stops after the next few times.
I am 28 today i had mine out at 8 before I got my period. It perforated and they passed it as the flu for a week. It was a 7 hour surgery and they tore it up in there trying to clean it. Every period I have had has felt exactly like you described. The intense pain and throwing up. Sometimes I'd get so light headed my vision and my hearing tunnel out and I get a good sweat. The pain is unreal. I think it's effecting my bowl movements and sometimes I get that intense pain in my urination. The exact pain of urinating after the surgery. The dr.s I have seen brush it off like I'm crazy like there's no way those two things can be connected and it's normal to get like that sometimes on your period. But you did a great job describing it I dont think that pain is normal and I feel it's directly related to the surgery. I used to take ibrofen but I'd get sick off that sometimes. I take Excetrin now and it works really well for me. I take it a couple days before too and I think that helps. Thanks for sharing your story and I hope it gets better for you!
I have to add because my surgery was before my period I had no idea that the clotting was not normal I've always had it, always thought it was weird, and it does get worse.