5. Flank pain
With appendicitis, there is normally the potential for dull, or even sharp, back pain, pain in the flank or even lower sacral pain in that area of your back. Difficulty urinating can also be a problem mainly because your body is redirecting fluids to the problem. The fact that organs near your bladder are swelling and crowding out, the ability of other organs to work as they normally do also becomes an issue.
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There are a number of reasons all of these symptoms are connected and nearly all of them can be traced back to the body’s near-militant response to divert all resources to kill the invader and fix the problem.