It's usually quite a sharp pain, so bad sufferers usually
'guard' that area with their hands and they sometimes keel over
from the pain too. Usually, a sudden fever develops at the same
time as the pain and when the doctor palpates (ie. presses on that
area), it is very tender and the pain feels sharper.
The actual location is the right lower quadrant of the torso, and
for the appendix, it is in a special nook known as the "McBurney's
Point".
Muscle aches in general don't feel sharper when the doc presses on
the area. The kind of pain you get when it is appendicitis and when
the doc presses on the area is a pain so sharp you kinda feel like
blacking out or sucking in air or screaming out in agony.
