Re: Any you'uns had the misfortune of diverticulitis? If so

Diverticulosis, that little round outpouching you can see on tdrakes picture, is a weakening of the colon wall, most commonly in a section of colon called the sigmoid colon (just above rectum), caused mostly by chronic constipation. Diverticulitis is an infection of one of those little pouches. Seeds/nuts have nothing to do with the development of the disease.

Diverticulitis/losis management has changed a lot recently. We used to take out everyone's colon when they had a first episode of diverticulitis. Now we treat with a couple weeks of oral antibiotics and most people do well. The diverticules can rupture, in which case we usually just stick a drain in the abscess. If it's really bad we take out the diseased segment of colon emergently, and frequently have to do an ostomy.

If you have recurrent diverticulitis, we do elective sigmoid resections after getting someone through a flare.

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Dec 20, 2016, 9:34 AM

Stop drinking Coke, if you do. Coke of any derivative, ie diet Coke etc.

I'd get terrible pains in my lower left stomach--the area where nothing really is. I got xrays, scans, and found nothing. The pain would come and go, seemingly without provocation. It was a burning, gnawing pain like an ulcer, but the docs said I didn't have an ulcer. Oddly, antacid would have little or no affect on it. I also get GIRD, to the point that I am unable to swallow food at times as if my esophagus was shrinking or having a spasm. It's quite unnerving, and makes me anxious and nervous, as if I have food stuck in my throat and I'm going to die.

I started to more closely monitor what I was eating--and the constant was drinking coke, or sometimes even heavily caffeinated beverages (Like sweet tea, but normally it was coke) within a few hours of the stomach pain or the esophagus tightening. I love coke, and I'll still occasionally drink it.

But when I eat something later, I can immediately pin the feeling of choking to death back to that sweet sucrose powered elixir I had a few hours before. And the lower left stomach pains 99% went away. Sometimes I still get tinges of them, but I attribute it to be whatever is in coke that causes the pain to also be in something else I've eaten or drank. I'm still trying to find that ingredient.

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Any you'uns had the misfortune of diverticulitis? If so

I had to google this.

inside tdrake baseball. Me neither***

I'm wondering if AIDS would help?

fighting what I thought to be a stomach bug butt doc

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I had a roid the size of a walnut.

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My sister is going in for surgery for this on 12/27.

Hope that goes well. Didn't know it could lead to that.***

Mrs No had it. Also had section of intestine removed. Diet:

henry was able to avoid surgery but 3 days on IV's

76 year old dad of free has had it

Stop eating sesame seeds.*******

this would've been MY answer, if I

This sounds remarkably well informed. Are you lost?***

My sister said she is looking fwd to losing a few lbs that

no, but one co-worker had it years ago, and another had a

This sounds stupid..but just read it anyway.

Re: Any you'uns had the misfortune of diverticulitis? If so

Well, it almost killed me dead

Geez Ben. Retroactive Ts and Ps.***

Czech thy T-mail.***

Thx***

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