There is absolutely no truth to this statement . <| sep |> That ' s what happened to me . Years of stomachs pain , worsened by stress . Fewer and fewer things that I could eat . Finally my appendix perforated and I had emergency surgery to have it out . Before surgery , I asked the surgeon if it could be related to my chronic painIBS . He said no . After surgery , he said that my appendix has been surrounded by a baseball sized mass of scar tissue . He told me that he couldn ' t technically say it was related to the previous problems , but that I might find that the problems all go away . They did . I never had an issue again . This is about 10 years ago now . I wonder if they learned anything from my case . <| sep |> Fuck NPR . Plenty of podcasts to listen to so you don ' t have to put up with NPR injecting their liberal agenda into everything .