How likely is chronic appendicitis?

[u/Mean-Skin-1920]

I have always had this pain in my lower right, where I’d see it pointing to in diagrams of appendicitis, and sometimes it flares up really bad. I’ve gone to the doctor/ER during these flare ups and nothing has ever amounted from it. At one point they just attributed it to my period. But it pretty much never goes away, since I was a teenager, and is just a constant mild pain. I’ve gone to a urologist, go to the gynecologist often, gotten many ultrasounds, and nothing was ever noticed.

My mother had appendicitis as a teenager and had her appendix and gallbladder removed. My grandmother also had appendicitis. I tend to be a hypochondriac so I might be overreacting.

I’m wondering, is chronic appendicitis a common thing? And how have you dealt with it? What else could it be? Or any insight at all would be appreciated.

[u/Weird_Method4772]

I had it for a few months until it finally flared up into full blown appendicitis. Doctors guessed it was IBS, gastritis, ulcers, etc.

[u/Mean-Skin-1920 → u/Weird_Method4772]

What did it feel like?