A teenager was left in agony after being told her burst appendix was "probably just a stomach bug". Sophie Dixon, 19, began to experience "crippling pain" and cramps while at home on November 7.With the pain getting progressively worse, she took herself to A&E the following day.At first, Sophie believed it to be an upset stomach, but the pain became "absolutely unbearable" so she could feel that something was not right.
Sophie, from St Helens in Merseyside, told the Liverpool Echo : "It started on November 7, late in the evening - I had what I can only describe as period-like cramps in the middle of my stomach. "I told myself it was nothing, or just something I’d eaten, and went to bed."I woke up the next day with crippling pains in the
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