Submitted 4 days ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/appendix-cancer-gen-x-millennials-increase-b2770460.html
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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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?
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
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.
Well that is one thing I’ll never have. My appendix got removed years ago.
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.
Is it caused by poverty?
*Gen Y
Nah, we're too cool to be a letter generation.
the_q@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
This is an odd one. Microplastics?
lemming@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Could also be better diagnostics. A lot of diseases are becoming much more common just because we can recognise them more easily.
OberonSwanson@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I wouldn’t be surprised. Or plastics… or steroids in meat… Or metals like Teflon.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 4 days ago
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.
olafurp@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Teflon is not a metal but a PFAS or forever chemical made of Carbon and Fluorine.
calavera@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
Teflon is not an issue, the problem is the stuff used to make teflon
GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
My main suspect was increased red meat/cured meat consumption, but it doesn’t seem like the data actually supports that theory.