This is no new news. When I was 17, I had all the signs of an appendicitis. But I really feared to go to the hospital. I read through some medical books where t

This is no new news. When I was 17, I had all the signs of an appendicitis. But I really feared to go to the hospital. I read through some medical books where they mentioned that after 72 hours of pain things can get real dangerous. I found some old antibiotics in the house (well beyond their date), took them and after 48 hours the apendicitis was gone. When I was 34, appendicitid struck again. I new instantly that I had it, and this time I did not fear the hospital. This time, I wanted to avoid hospital because we were just a few weeks from moving to a new house. So I took antibiotics again, measured the fever, noted every measurement point in Excel but after 36 hours I found that it was not getting any better. So finally I took advantage of my wonderful German health insurance and got the appendix brilliantly removed... Just want to state: there are times when antibiotics work and times when they do not.