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<p>Sewhappy, wouldn’t diverticulitis have been seen during your colonoscopy? That’s how mine showed up. My gastro even printed out pictures of the “pockets” of diverticula for me.</p>
<p>Yes. That’s why this feels more like a scarring issue.</p>
<p>I completely fasted (as in just clear liquid) for two days followed by two more days of smoothies, clear liquid, not much else and I have been pain free. Cat scan tomorrow. We will see where this ends up?</p>
<p>Good Luck sewhappy, hope everything goes well</p>
<p>Hope you’re feeling better, sewhappy!</p>
<p>I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you, sewhappy. Praying too.</p>
<p>Thank you for the well wishes and also apologize again for interjecting my own health on the OP’s thread.</p>
<p>I feel better! In fact, I feel just fine. I simply fasted on clear liquids for two days after reading about the usual treatment for diverticulitis. After two days, I gradually added solids and steered clear of super high fiber foods because from what I understand you first need to really rest your gut, then focus on motility with fiber. I had a Cat scan this week and it showed nothing abnormal . . . but the terrible pain has subsided. It’s a mystery. The only thing I can come up with is that the back-to-back colonoscopies with two full nights of prepping disrupted my colon and it needed to rest.</p>
<p>It’s very humbling to experience severe chronic pain. </p>
<p>I’m beginning to think that occasional fasting just to rest the system might have some benefits. It wasn’t that bad of an experience.</p>
<p>As another diverticulite (just made up that word), this has been a very interesting thread. My mother and grandmother suffered from it, too, and always blamed seeds. My grandmother used to meticulously cut up her tomatoes. I haven’t really figured out what causes my bouts, other than popcorn. Besides pain, I get horrible gas and bloating. Believe it or not, when I feel symptoms coming on, I eat an untoasted bagel and am fine within a few hours. I swear that the sticky bagel is somehow able to clean out my intestine. It sounds strange, I know, but has worked for the last 5 years. My mother has been hospitalized three times and decided to have laparoscopic surgery last winter. Unfortunately, she had complications within a week of her surgery. Her intestine was leaking. I looked up the statistics and only about 2-3% of surgery patients experience this dangerous situation. It has finally healed, after about 4 months. I hope she can go back to eating tomatoes and berries.</p>