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Wow Vivian, I'm sorry you have this glitch with your health care and can't get a CT except during a flare up? Try a simple blood test ... It will show infection. Either way, you may want to add fiber to your diet regularly, it might help.

My thoughts are with you its a nightmare senario ,my divictulitus kept flaring up and went on to an Enterovesical Fistula which means when I Wee I also poop through my bladder, which makes me wonder if I could have sorted this out sooner.Good luckwith your next flare up

Hi Denise

Sounds like you had it rough. I worry about complications. I don't even know what to eat anymore. I have to do a repeat parasite test but I am now in the constipation phase. If I take restorolax would results be affected?

Vivian

you poor woman,cant you have a colonoscopy done?(camera up back passage)i also had a scan which showed up diverticulitis and i wasnt having a flare up at the time.i take pentasa in granuelmform,2x2mg per day,this keeps motions on a regular basis,i also take steroids which keep the flare ups at bay,i have now finished my course of these so will let you know what happens after that,i eat most foods and have porrage or cornflakes for breakfast,i also eat two bananas a day.i hope this helps and get well soon,i dont envy you with an op.my consultant is ruling that out until we have tried all  other medication,but steroids seem to work best.I wish you well.

Hello Vivian, I live in Suffok in the UK and got diagnosed in 2006 when I was rushed into hospital in pain.  Hard to recall just what they did then or what the procedure was called - I had to drink a liquid and then they put me in a thing like a huge polo mint and pumped air into me which was agonising so I guess that was a scan of some sort.  Since then, in my local hospital in 2006, 2011 and coming up next month I am to have Colonoscopy; you don't eat for 24 hours; take a medicine the day before to clear bowels and then a camera goes in and winds its way around as the bed gets tipped and turned. That takes internal pictures and they can see the diverticular pockets and which areas of the colon they affect......doubt they could do it mid infection.  You say it took you five weeks to pull back from a bout....if I have two or three flare ups close together (within maybe three to six weeks of each other) it can take a lot longer than five weeks to settle.  I have had monthly bouts since November 2014 and the Consultant says I am heading for surgery.  No way do I want that; but have had ten bouts since Novemeber and just can't pull back to a no-pain situation between bouts so I can see it is coming.  But it is major surgery no two ways about it. I have Cefalexin and Metronidozole antibiotics when I am ill.  I read on here that one lady took a supplement every day of Acipophilis with Pectin and since she started taking it last August; she has not had a bout - so I am now taking it.  One can but hope.  I have been told no seeds, nuts, pips, skins (fruit or pulses), wholegrains and even no mince as there may be gristly bits in it.  In short nothing that may get stuck in the diverticular pockets/pouches that will then sit there and fester. I had been eating peas (skins!) so have stopped them.  My consultant said a low fibre diet when there is inflammation; a high fibre diet in times of health.  Ask your consulant about having a Colonoscopy; it should be able to see the pouches/pockets. Best wishes, Christine

Sorry that should have read Acidophilis!!

I had acute diverticulitis without any raised blood works. I had leukocytes in my urine. It took them 2 months before they finally gave me a contrast ct of abdomen and there it was. That was my first episode. It lasted 5 months the pain. It does not have to show