Seven flare ups of Diverticulitis in two years----

Hi all: I am new to this forum and looking for help and some answers-- I am 78 years old with chronic constipation for which I use magnesium every other day. On the days I don't use it I don't go the next day but I am not uncomfortable. I take a large dose so I don't want to take it every day and I am up all night going to the bathroom: giving this info so you will have some history. Also had a large sigmoid polyp removed in 2018- was very close to being cancer. I am supposed to have another colonoscopy this year. In June 2019 I suffered an acute attack of diverticulitis. Lots of pain, went to the ER, had CT scan which was diagnostic for acute diverticulitis- took antibiotics and recovered. Since then I have had seven non-acute attacks of diverticulitis. I say non acute because I did not need to go to the ER and most of the time I did not require antibiotics. I am perplexed as to why I keep getting these attacks. For two years I didn't eat nuts, corn, or anything that I thought could cause an attack, and still get an attack of diverticulitis. From my review of medical literature, diverticulitis is related to constipation, but I take laxatives and this keeps me going regularly: I read that doctors do not feel nuts, corn, etc. are the cause of diverticulitis. thank you for listening.

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