[wryoak]

I had a similar experience. I think doctors are just wary of cutting people open due to the risks. Anyway, long history of males rupturing their appendices in my family before puberty. The doctors were not convinced by the family history, however. When they finally pulled it out, after months of painful inflammation episodes they dismissed in a variety of ways, they saw its unusual size (3x!) and scar tissue and fought insurance to get the op covered. This was back in the nineties tho, before LLMs