Woman’s jaw drops as her appendix ‘goes missing’ and doctors don’t know where it’s gone

A woman was shocked after doctor’s claim that her appendix didn’t appear on a CT scan despite the fact that she’s ‘always’ had one. Warning: This video contains graphic language.

A woman has claimed that her appendix is missing after doctors say that the organ didn’t show on a CT scan. Speaking on podcast Ladies & Tangents – Jeri and Ciara – who have raked in over 1.4 million followers to date on popular video-streaming service TikTok – explained the shocking ordeal in a recent episode.

Ciara joked that she and the doctors were “still looking” for her missing appendix after she visited the hospital when she suffered agonising pain. She explained: “I’ve a little bit of tingy pain in my right side, but I thought it was a cyst and Cory was like, ‘that’s where your appendix is, you need to go get checked out’.

“And I was like, ‘it’s not going to be that bad’. But I woke up this morning and it was BAD. So, I thought I’d go to the hospital. The doctor straight-up thought it sounded like appendicitis.

“And he’s like, ‘We’re going to do a CT scan, and then we’re going to do an ultrasound to check out a bunch of things’.”

Once Ciara had undergone the scan, she explained that the doctor returned to say that they had figured some stuff out, but it was far from the news that she originally expected.

She explained: “[The doctor] said, ‘first of all your appendix didn’t show up on the CT scan’ and I was like, ‘where is it?! Why aren’t we more concerned about that’?!”

Although Ciara was worried, the doctor assured her that as there was no inflammation for where the appendix should be, they had no concerns.

Regardless, she exclaimed: “I don’t like how we’re just glossing over that my appendix is missing. I’ve always had it.”

“Is it gone still? Did they ever find it?” Podcaster Jeri questioned.

“That’s the thing, [the doctor] was like, ‘it’s fine, there’s no inflammation where it should be, so that’s what we look for’.

“He basically said, ‘we can’t find it so we don’t know’,” Ciara added.

However, the doctor explained: “On your ultrasound though, you do have cysts on your ovaries. You have a dime-sized one and you have fluid all throughout your pelvic region, which means one just burst.

He continued: “Funny thing though, the ultrasound technician noticed a spot in your right lung”.

“That’s a f*****g sentence I never want to hear in my life,” Ciara admitted.

The doctor assured: “But your white blood cell count is good so we’re not worried.”

Whilst she may initially have been concerned about the ordeal, she struggled to withhold her laughter and was keen to act light-hearted about the matter.

Taking to the comments, one TikToker wrote: “If this isn’t an example of women coping with chronic pain and just powering on through, I don’t know what is.”

A second user claimed: “They couldn’t find my appendix so they did an appendectomy and it was wrapped around my bowels!!!”

“Went in for the same thing and they did an ultrasound and couldn’t find my appendix so they just gave me some pain meds and sent me on my way,” a third person added.

A different user wrote: “Gotta be honest, I thought the spot on your lung was gonna be your appendix.”

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