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Can you have appendicitis for over a week and the pain just be mild? will the pain get worse or could it stay the same?
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Short answer YES: You need an eval. Pain that comes and goes may be part of normal bowel function or irritable bowel, but pain that comes and stays needs an eval. Overall a chronic or slowly progressing appendicitis is not common, but possible. If it ruptures it can be life threatening. Other possibilities remain, partial obstruction or diverticulitis may also occur and act like this. Get seen and get well
Answered 10/24/2015
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