There is currently a very similar study being conducted in the US. I am a subject in this study after I got appendicitis last summer. I chose to be treated with

There is currently a very similar study being conducted in the US. I am a subject in this study after I got appendicitis last summer. I chose to be treated with antibiotics and have been symptom free for the last ~14 months. I could also have opted to participate in the randomized controlled trial (where a treatment would have been randomly assigned to me) but surgery isn't really something I'm comfortable leaving up to chance.