Diverticulitis anyone?

gwstang · Feb 19, 2017

murph1 said:
Are you being treated or taking any meds for GERDs?

No, nothing for that. I've never had that problem...unless I stuffed myself at a buffet.

brown40 · Feb 20, 2017

mapper said:
Getting the bacteria in your gut healthy and balanced may help some. Natural sources of this are yogurt with live cultures and unpasteurized fermented foods such as sauerkraut, dill pickles, and kimchee to name a few. You can also make your own fermented vegetables fairly easily. Good gut health cuts down naturally on constipation and bloating.
My wife and I had to educate ourselves on this since our son was afflicted with ulcerative colitis at four years old. His condition was a very delicate balancing act for a long time. Keeping his gut bacteria healthy and balanced was helpful in keeping his flares ups somewhat under control.
Hopefully you get this under control soon, its sounds like something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.

Diverticulosis is a very unforgiving diagnosis, and diverticulitis is a potentially fatal inflammatory state of the lining. If you check out "LOW RESIDUE DIET" and "LOW INFLAMMATION DIET" there are great diet plans for avoiding trigger foods. Our food supply chain is full of perfect bacterial culture media: refined sweeteners.
You didn't mention use of antibiotics in your report... but most adults don't get to adulthood without running a course or two. Every time a person undergoes antibiotic therapy, the cultural composition of their gut plummets to a handful a bad hombres, which may have been good hombres, if they were kept in balance with their former cohabitants, but their neighbors all died from AB tx, so now the lonely hombres proliferate to occupy all the prime vacant real estate. Then you have a variety of exudates and metabolic byproducts from your new gut monoculture that are irritating--gut neighbors aren't there to further process those compounds, so its left to your body to clear any substantial offenses/blooms/meals.
Probiotic therapy is a very successful co-strategy for keeping "osis" from becoming "itis", but I wouldn't consider adding one or two species of gut flora from a pill bottle to be a fix. Yogurt, Kefir, other old-school fermented foods are the best sources for adding diversity. Two or three species can not make a healthy colony.
Lactobacillus strains are the healthiest additions you can make. Their natural byproduct and exudate (lactic acid) decreases local pH, which encourages the types of bacteria that are more beneficial to our digestive environment. Lactobacillus are in fermented dairy products, but they are also on your skin, in the soil, on plant surfaces, and routinely fall from the sky. You can make your own lactobacillus culture from what is falling out of your area, and rid yourself of 99% of fungal and bacterial issues in your vegetable gardens plants and soil, improve your and your pets digestive health, get rid of nasty smells in stalls or bathrooms, innoculate your septic tank, and keep drains running smoothly.
Attempts at sterility, and highly processed and preserved food conditions create opportunities for mono- and low diversity cultures to bloom and flourish in our homes and guts. The more diverse healthy flora exist in guts (and soils), the better the condition for the person or plant at the top of that food chain.
I hope your itis quickly goes back to osis... its unpleasant weighing the effects every time you pick up a menu, glass or utensil, but far more pleasant than not weighing them.
With a managed diet, and a restored microflora, you can avoid inflammation. Its easier if someone else picks out your foods and menus.

gwstang · Feb 20, 2017

Good info from everyone. thanks so much!

check · Feb 20, 2017

gwstang said:
Good info from everyone. thanks so much!

Good luck to you, gw, and do keep us posted!

SouthSiddee · Nov 14, 2022

I have nighttime bouts of abdominal pain in my lower left quadrant. This has been going on for many years. I read about my symptoms and diagnosed myself with diverticulitis. Later I went to the doctor and my fears were confirmed.

It doesn't seem to matter what I eat when I eat, or how fast or how slowly I eat. I find that carbonated drinks can exacerbate the problem (but they also help with my treatment). I read about the treatment of diverticulitis and it didn't impress me.

I recently started taking special pills for diverticulosis. They help me a lot to live a more relaxed life and I even eat contraindicated foods at times.

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LittleBittyBigJohn · Nov 14, 2022

I had it once. Started as a dull ache and progressed through the week. Went to the doctor on Friday as it had gotten a lot worse. He pushed on my belly and sent me straight to the hospital for a CAT scan with oral and intravenous contrast. Got the results almost immediately. Not perforated but apparently very close. Sent home with LOTS of antibiotics. Pain got worse throughout the weekend to the point I couldn't stand. I stuck it out and it eventually subsided by the third day of antibiotics. I had pains periodically in the same spot, I was told it was the scar tissue attaching to something else. I still get the dull ache if I'm not "regular" enough.

Never had the projectile from both ends from it.

oldtimer 66 · Nov 14, 2022

I had diverticulitis since 2008. Bad stuff. What triggers my episodes is any thing with seeds and or hard shells/ like pop corn. That's a no no for me. Along with cucumbers, strawberries, black berries, watermelon etc. any thing with seeds. Hope this info helps someone.

Joel/ak · Nov 14, 2022

Dang, and i complain about my Crohn's.

Torvy · Nov 14, 2022

Dad had this years ago. Had part of his colon removed. Spent a long time with a 'bag'. He is better now. At the time, they thought nuts might cause it or make it worse. New data suggests that a diet high in nuts can be good for it.