Diverticulitus flare up

I was hospitalised 5 years ago that's when I found out I have diverticulitis, I was given antibiotic metronidazole which I had a bad reaction from swollen tongue and really painful stiff neck, I am severely allergic to any Penicillin so can not take it, couple of years back I had another bad attack and one of my GP insisted I had to take metronidazole and suffer the side effects as they were no other antibiotics. Which I refused, so I did alot of research on line, apparently echenacia is a natural antibiotic also taking high dosage 4000iu vit d3 helps, it took 3 weeks for the pain to subside. Last Dec 2020 I was rushed into hospital with a flesh eating infection in my head resulting in 3 life saving operations because I'm allergic to so many antibiotics it took a while to find one which I didn't have a reaction too which was doxycycline I was fine off it and it cleared the infection, iv been fine with my bowel over a year now not eating nuts seeds corn popcorn and taking 4000iu vit d3 and echenacia. Couple of months ago i thought I'd lower my intake of vit d3 with the spring time coming, then last week I was stupid enough to eat raw onions with cheese on my salad and paying for it this week my diverticulitis is back with a vengeance I put myself on a liquid diet n started the echenacia but the pain was so bad I couldn't cope with waiting 2 weeks for the pain to subside, I looked up antibiotics for diverticulitis and doxycycline is one of the antibiotics iv rung my GP and asked to be put on doxycycline which they agreed 2 a day for 7 days along with buscopan for the cramps, iv upped my dosage back to 4000iu vit d3, have a read up on it on Google, iv also been talking to another who suffered bad with diverticulitis and she told me about another herbal remedy which she swears by olive leaf extract she takes it every day apparently it has strong antibacterial and antiviral properties and kills infection, this is something I'm going to look into after my course of antibiotics, if taking 2 capsules a day keeps me infection free il take them for the rest of my life along with my vit d3 , if you opt in to take vit d3 you need it combined with k2 to absorb in your blood system but please read up on everything on Google first before you make up your mind. I hope this has helped, hope you get better soon kind regards Denise

You might want to consider that you may not require antibiotics. do a google search and you will see that not all flare ups require antibiotics. At time of my last flare up I asked the doctor to order a white blood count to see if there was an infection. Since my white count was normal I didn't take the antibiotics even though the doc suggested I take it. Medical literature search shows not all flare ups need antibiotics, which, as you know cause problems of their own. The flare up resolved over several days. I did eat a soft diet. Good luck.