Which surgery is worse? .... having your Appendix removed or having a Hernia rem!
Question: Just curious,
Which surgery is worse -
Having your Appendix removed?
or Having a Hernia removed?
Answers: Just curious,
Which surgery is worse -
Having your Appendix removed?
or Having a Hernia removed?
Removing an appendix is more life threatening and a more difficult operation. Given a choice I'd have a hernia op. (Had one when I was a year old apparantly)
Your appendix. My friends little sister got her hernia removed but seemed to be fine afterwards. Appendix is more severe! Also, the hernia is smaller. Hope this helped!
Well, you cannot remove a hernia. It is a hole in your abdomen where an organ can stick through or a bulging of an organ thru a body cavity. My grandpa has one, he's too old for them to do surgery so he just bears it. Having an appendix removed is easy. They just cut it out. They used to think it was a useless organ but now they are not quite sure, much like the tonsils.
So the worse surgery would be the hernia. Removing an appendix is pretty routine, especially for young people. Hernias are more for older people. There are also different types of hernias. A ruptured appendix is a ruptured appendix, you just remove it. No question about it.
But hernias are more complicated, some are repaired with surgery, and some that people just have to learn to live with.
By the way, removing an appendix is NOT the harder operation. It is a vestigial organ, meaning it used to play a big part in the human body but now it is just a remnant and on its way out of the human body over millions of years.
To repair some hernia, requires pushing back an organ, and then repairing the weakened tissues which allowed the organ to push through to begin with. An appendix, you jus cut it out and then clean the area where it ruptured to prevent sepsis.
p.s. Oh my God, if you put down that intestines can protrude into your leg then you dont know anything about anatomy and would get a F from any biology teacher. Don't ever say that in class. Your leg has no cavity, it is pretty much all muscle and bone. Hernias are localized in the abdomen primarily where there is a body cavity, a "hollow" area.
You don't remove a hernia (unless the tissue is dead and infected), you put a net to keep it in it's spot.
A hernia means parts of an organ are in a different cavity. You could punch a hole into your belly with a knife and your intestines will fall out to give you a rough idea. Intestines can get into the torax and into your legs because of the very common inguinal hernias.
The surgery is done in each case to keep that tissue from "escaping" again. It's a pain in the rear to reconstruct the tissue and make a natural net to cover the hole, much faster and better in the long run to just put a plastic or metal net that doesn't break easily.
Hernia surgeries are variable in magnitud on a case by case basis. If it's really large, they have to open everything up. More pain, more time required to recover. Small hernias can be done by laparoscopy.
Save the unusual cases that an appendix is broken and infection is infecting intestines, it's a ridiculously simple procedure doable by laparoscopy in less than 40 minutes if the surgeon is talented enough. Probably one of the fastest surgeries around. You feel more pain from the gas they pump into the cavity than come the surgery itself.
Appendix, because they have to be very quick, otherwise the appendix may explode causing an infection. And if it does explode, they have to clean your insides until there is no trace of appendix left. Also, they have to like, snip it off and sew it up before it becomes infected. Your hermea, my mom her hermea in place, and it left a big scar on her belly and made her bloated a few days, but she could still walk around alot. It wasn't such a big deal. My dad, grandpa, aunt, and grandmother all had their appendix out and you can still see the scars, very clearly.