[ConservativeMind]

If you suspect or know you have diverticulitis, please stay on top of any cancer screenings you can take. Lower your body’s inflammation via diet, exercise, and supplements, as needed.

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[wally_bert]

Diverticulitis almost claimed me as a fatality statistic back in January.

It’s no joke but I survived and finally got repaired a few weeks ago.

[READINABLUESTATE]

Many years ago I nearly lost my mother to diverticular disease. She was very stoic and waited too long, but She recovered. She was then diagnosed with and eventually died from multiple myeloma a few years later.

[joe fonebone]

I was first diagnosed at 27 years old.
I have had more colonoscopies than I have fingers and thumbs.
Had a large one burst near the large/small intestine joint.
They had to remove a bunch of large and small intestine and splice it together.
Very painful recovery.
I now have permanent diarrhea.
If you suspect, do not hesitate.
Contact a butt doctor asap.

[posterchild]

I used to get hit with it 6 to 8 times per year. I started eating yogurt with live and active cultures and it pretty much disappeared. It only has happened a couple times in the past 5 years while traveling and not on my regular diet of live and active cultures. I currently consume kefir instead and that works as well.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[Graybeard58]

The after affects of colon surgery can be horrendous, as I’ve found out over the years, I’m talking about scar tissue that can cause blockage.

I had 5 inches of colon removed in 1990 due to diverticulitis emergency surgery and on average every 5 years or so I have blockage. The pain is indescribably intense, emergency room intense. My last attack however was in 2015.

Every surgeon or M.D. I’ve talked to since it began tells me the same thing, do NOT have additional surgery to remove the scar tissue because it will cause even more scar tissue and even bigger problems.

My surgeon told me that ALL his female patients say that the pain is worse than labor pains and child birth.

Emergency room treatment for the pain is to keep me in la la land with pain killer injections until it clears itself and it works.