Appendicolith diagnosis before appendicitis

My question is, once diagnosed with Appendicolith, how long could it take before appendicitis develops? I have a 4 month history of kidney stones on and around both kidneys. I've had them blasted under general anesthesia 3 times since June this year with no relief. Most pain was on my left flank. I noticed right before my last procedure about 2 and a half months ago, i started getting a pain above and beside my belly button. Shooting pain of sorts. It was off and on. I assumed it was pain due to multiple surgeries through my belly button in the past two years (one a double umbilical hernia, the other a partial hysterectomy). They both left numbness below and to the right of my belly button.

About a week after the belly button pain, my stomach would swell like i was pregnant, no joke. A day or two later i began to feel a dull achy pain in my right lower side. Sometimes having a sharp pain on my lower left shooting to my lower right. Few times the pain would hurt on the lower right to the point I'd vomit. Now through my kidney stone war, i was put on a nausea med for sudden vomiting as well as high dose Norcos. I thought nothing of it as i was told this time around i had a rather large kidney stone in the lower pole of my right kidney. I go and get blasted... was fine for maybe a week, then symptons started again. Had several instances where i had the swollen belly plus huge urge to pee with only a trickle. Then about a month ago i walk into my Drs office... no appointment. She sees me, I'm in acute distress at the point, dry heaving and cant get comfy due to pain on both sides. We both assume it's stones, but she ordered a ultra sound and cat scan of both kidneys and bladder. Took over a week for the ins to ok it. I went in to get the imaging test done last Wednesday, by last Friday i recieve a call from my Drs office answering service with this message "if you begin to have pain, go straight to ER, you are at high risk for appendicitis"! Of course i panic as, even though pain had gotten better, it was still in my right side. I went to the ER, blood test normal, no fever, no rebound pain. I was told i had a pretty good size Appendicolith seen in the scans done 2 days prior. No swelling of appendix on the scans. Dr felt i was in no need of er surgery as he stated i apparently don't have appendicitis YET... any thoughts on my chances of developing appendicitis, advice even? Keep in mind, my pain meds help a lot with pain when it is bad. Pretty much kept my self dosed around the clock for about a week.

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