I was Diagnosed last week with Diverticulitis, After 18 months of being in pain. The Doctor offered me surgery as soon as he told me I had Diverticulitis.
It's all confusing to me. so many different symptoms and different stories.
Can anyone tell me if I need to see my GP after being Diagnosed with Diverticulitis for antibiotics or anything else.
So back in October, I had a horrific and painful outbreak of herpes, both near my genital area and my mouth area. I was diagnosed with HPV-1, but not HPV-2 (swab test). I recently got into a relationship and I've told my boyfriend what I had and we had to be careful. Just recently, I finished school and from the stress, I was developing mouth sores, and now all of a sudden, I noticed one bump on the outer area of my vagina (I don't know the actual terminology, but it's on the "hairy" part) that popped up yesterday, thinking it was an ingrown hair because I shaved, but now it's looking more like a blister than anything. It hasn't spread yet and I'm hoping it doesn't. My discharge is a bit more creamy than usual, but there's no burning while urinating or pain near the vagina. It seems normal, just not the bump. The mouth ulcers are nearly gone and I haven't been sick and I don't start my period for another 2 weeks. Last time him and I had sex was this past Sunday and we used protection. My question is, if I'm diagnosed with HPV-1, why am I developing herpes in the genitalia region? Isn't it only supposed to be on the mouth?
View 3 RepliesI'd love to know how long other people's flare-ups last on average. Have had D disease x 15 y. Had 3 attacks in past 6 wks. Urgh! I usually take antis & get up after 1 or 2 days, liquids only x 36hrs then soft foods x about a week, then gradually reintro fibre, seeds, pulses. Maybe I should stay on soft food more than a few days after 36h on liquids?? Opinions please! And btw its almost impossible to lose weight when this rotten condition dictates eating all the wrong stuff after an attack.. White flour pasta, mash..all those carbs! And stodge! Not helpful. Any ideas? Thanks. New to forum. Am 63 now & desperate to do anything to avoid surgery.
View 49 RepliesI have had diarrhea and rectal bleeding for a month and discomfort (but not pain) lower left side. I went to see my GP and she ordered blood and stool samples. A few days later I woke up in blood stained sheets and when I got up blood was running down my legs. I called 111 and was told to go straight to A&E. They kept me in all day on an IV drip as I was dehydrated with sluggish circulation and later discharged with antibiotics Co-Amoxiclav and a letter for my GP saying Diverticulitis/IBD?
Flexible sigmoidoscopy/colonoscopy/CT scan have been booked for 31 October. Despite the antibiotics, the diarrhea and bleeding continue and although I am drinking lots of water, I have a continually dry mouth. This is the first time I have ever experienced anything like this and am naturally very concerned. I don’t quite understand what is happening. Are the antibiotics to take away the inflammation? Will the bleeding continue until the inflammation is gone? I read somewhere that diverticular bleeds usually stop on their own. Is a month a long time for bleeding to continue? I am trying to be positive but feel very run down and 31 October seems like a long way away for the tests. Any advice please?
I found out 6 months ago I had diverticular disease after a flair up of diverticulitis. I have recently had another flair up - a few days ago. Although it seems mild it is still fairly debilitating but doesn't seem as bad as first time. I don't know if I am experiencing day to day diverticular disease symptoms or diverticulitis? First attack had fever with it and feeling sick but this one is just pain and diarrhea and feeling really down. Can't eat except for liquids. Is this diverticulitis or diverticular disease and how do you know the difference? Is it to do with the fever being present or not? I am so worried as no real information has been given to me and I feel scared I won't be able to live a normal life with this. Can someone tell me the difference and should I be heading to the doctors as soon as i get a flair up or just put up with it until it gets worse? I have read so many scary things about it I don't know if I can cope.
View 13 RepliesMy Mom suffered from Diverticulitis but she passed last year and her and I had never really discussed anything about it other than my sister or myself might eventually suffer from it because it could be hereditary. I have some questions that I would have asked my Mom but now I please need help since she’s gone. And I was too stressed and forgot to ask my GI these questions and he’s not reachable on the weekends. Thank you.
I’m a 47 year old Male. And I just started my Ciprofloxacin 500 mg (2 daily) & Metronidazole 500 mg (3 daily) yesterday. GI said to take the pills for a week to 10 days.
- How normally long before the more extreme burning sensations will begin to dissipate? 2-3 Days?
- How long should I stay on the liquid diet? The entire time while I’m taking the antibiotics?
- I bought Carnation, Boost & Ensure food drink supplements - Good idea?
- I also bought jello, pudding, chicken stock, red, white & blue popsicles, ginger ale, apple juice & plain yogurt - All good? Any other recommendations?
- How much water should I also be drinking daily?
- The Metronidazole seems to be awful. I have a metallic taste in my mouth, evening & morning headaches, stomach cramps & a nauseated feeling all the time. Is this normal?
- Any other suggestions or advice?
I have been suffering from some internal Hemorrhoids that prolapse after a bowel movement for almost a decade. After they prolapse i gently insert them back into where they belong and it has been ok and hasn't affected my life much.
However the past a few days ago after making a bowl movement i noticed when they prolapsed they were very inflamed and large and painful, i couldn't put them back inside me. I waited until the next morning but unfortunately the couldn't go in so i had to go to a hospital. The doctors managed to insert them back in when they applied some gel but it was painful and not easy.
Then 2 days after same problem but they kept on bleeding, had to go back to the Hospital and same thing.
I hope they get better more manageable soon but i doubt it.
Anyway i really want to avoid the traditional Hemorrhoid surgery as i have read the horror stories on here about being in pain for 4-8 weeks, complications and also i can't afford to take so much time off work.
Hence why i am considering the HAL/RAR Procedure, from my research it is less painful and hypothetically you can be off work for only 48 hours.
has anyone experienced this procedure? What was the pain like?
I'm scheduled for a c section Wed. due to my little man's position and the doctor said a vaginal birth could be risky due to the size of my birth canal. I'm a ftm and this really dissapointed me. I'm really scared considering i've never had any surgeries before lol. Has anyone else had a c section? what was your experience? what should i expect?
View 13 RepliesAfter 1month of viread, my alt increased from 200 to 373.
Before:
Hbv DNA 170 million
As I said my Sgpt 200
Hbeag reactive
After 1 month
Hbv DNA 133,000
Hbeag reactive
Sgpt 373
My alt increasing is this normal?after 2 more months what will be next happen to my sgpt.please share with ur tdf experienced.
I am told that I need TURP for my enlarged prostate problem . could anyone recommend a good Urologist in Dallas Metroplex area who has good experience in this procedure
View 64 RepliesOver the last 12 months I've had nine or ten endoscopies. The first few were emergencies and I was not very aware of what was happening due to being fully knocked out.
Having survived the initial trauma, I now attend every 1 to 2 months for regular endoscopy checks. I had decided to try without sedation (just the spray) but the consultant virtually insisted that I have sedation. I was a bit annoyed at first at not being given much choice in the matter. They now use the spray and 3 mg of Midazolam each time. In ten seconds, I'm completely out of it and only wake up in recovery. No significant after effects and I'm usually off home in about an hour. Sometimes it goes really easily for the consultant and other times he experiences difficulties with me. Fortunately, the only time I know anything about these difficulties is after the procedure in recovery room.
I see many posts regarding experiences with HOLEP surgery but they all seem to be at least a year old. I am hoping to see some recent posts.
View 1 Repliesi am really struggling with my fibro. The doc has told me to persevere with this tablet. He has also gave me an anti sickness tablet. I would like to know people's experiences with this please.
View 12 RepliesI am having serious doubts about going ahead with my surgery, and I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced a tremendous improvement in the pain and functioning of a foot with a ruptured PTT. My rupture occurred in November, and caused me LOTS of pain, limping, and sticking to three inch heels to keep the weight off my arch. I postponed my surgery to May 21 because I was too frightened. I wore an ankle brace that also pulled up my arch while doing whatever I could at the gym. At the end of March I noticed much less pain and walked three miles briskly with some incline on a treadmill. I can even jump rope now a month later and have been for several 4 mile fast walks. In fact today I was up to 4.7 miles/hr. on the treadmill. Tonight I did a single heel raise! I know my arch has flattened and now looks like my worn out flattened left foot, but am I crazy to be going ahead with this major surgery when I'm experiencing less and less pain and my foot is becoming more and more functional?
View 8 RepliesI went to a gyno last week to discuss treatment for my 5x7 intramural fibroid which causes me heavy bleeding and sometimes a pressure towards my tailbone.
I was curious about having a embolization but my gyno thought that Esmya would be better for me to start with.
I have so many questions that the gyno couldn't answer (!) so I hope that you who have been on Esmya would like to share your experiences and can help me answer some of them. I am mostly scared of side effects, if it will affect my work, libido etc.
The questions I have for you are the following:
After finishing 3 months on Esmya, how was the bleeding? Was it much lighter after that?
How much did your fibroid/fibroids shrink?
What side effects did you have? Were they transient?
Has anyone been on them for longer than 3 months? If so, did the fibroid continue to shrink?
Will the fibroid stay small and bleeding continue to be less after I finish Esmya? Is it worth taking?
Is it safe? Would you recommend it?
I might add that I'm just turning 40, have to kids and want to avoid having a hysterectomy.
So I'm only new on here but I want to know what your experiences with depo provera are?
I'm 19 I've been experiencing lower pelvic pain and lower back pain for coming up to 10 years, I started my period when I was 10. I was told I had appendicitis and that got removed, though I was still in agony from that (don't know when that was but roughly around 2007) the doctors kept telling me I should have no pain and it was all in my head, a few days later mum was told my appendix was white and there was nothing wrong with it, I had cysts on my ovaries and Fallopian tubes and water in my pelvic cavity. The doctors brushed it off and told me I had IBS and sent me to the bowel specialist (can't think of the name right now)who said its nothing to do with them and sent me to the Gyni, this went on for a few years of bouncing back and forth from one to the other, I finally got a referral from my GP to go to another Gyni who at first wasn't too interested but agreed to a lap and was then finally diagnosed with Endo in roughly early 2010. Since then I had been on almost all of the contraceptive pills and on the marina, I've had 6 months of Zoladex, I've also tried naturopath and diets, Nothing had worked with exception of Zoladex which I got relief for five months.
My Gyni is now wanting me to go to a pain clinic and wanted me to go to my Gp for a referral which we did and he doesn't agree, he said because I've got my period every day we need to get that to stop and then the pain will stop (He's the only one that understands) So he wrote a letter explaining that and also asking if I could go back on the Zoladex, in the meantime I'm on a antidepressant in ways to help mask the pain.
My Gyni who I saw the other day didn't agree and didn't care that I was loosing every day, she doesn't want to see me anymore and to shut myself and my mum up has put me on Depo Provera.
Now I'm wanting to know what your experiences are with it, she reckons it won't work since I've not got any relief from anything else and said for me to go on Zoladex again won't be good since I will have more chance of menopause (right now I don't care as I already get hot flashes)
I've got no life at all, I stopped school in grade 9 and tried studying in TAFE (College) but now I'm unable to since the pain is unbearable and I have no energy. Government is trying to push me into work and I've been seeing a job seeker that is also trying to get me into work and keeps saying to take pain relief to stop the pain.
Does Depo provera work for you? I've heard some bad things about Depo...
I'd like to relate our experience with Hep C treatment. My husband got Hep C back before it even had a letter, in the 1970s, and he is now 62. He has never been much of a drinker, which is very fortunate. He has always had a ridiculous amount of energy, and an active occupation. He kept an eye on his liver (don't take that literally!), and the diagnosis never much affected him. But after a divorce about 10 years ago, he began to consume more alcohol than before, and his liver enzymes crept up, and his biopsy in 2009 said he had Stage 4 cirrhosis. Yet function was still fine, and still he did not feel affected by the disease. The doc said, the numbers say it's time for interferon.
The side effects and prognosis for cure were not encouraging, and I contacted naturopaths I know to get a recommendation for someone for him to see. They recommended a doctor at John Bastyr Naturopathic College in WA State, and we went to see her. She specializes in traditional Chinese medicine for cancer, HIV and liver diseases. She prescribed an herbal combination, and some other supplements. And ZERO alcohol. She was the first doctor who actually said NONE. Other doctors would pussyfoot around and say, don't drink a lot, but no one said, don't have any at all. Not even one beer on Friday. Not drinking was not a problem for him, as he had already mostly stopped having any once he got the Stage 4 pronouncement.
The treatment regimen she started him on made him feel worse, so he went back, and she put him on a different formula, something called Livercel, made by Nutricology. It contains a proprietary blend of Patrinia extract, Phellodendron amurense extract, Yi-Chen wormwood extract and Schisandra extract. He also was taking milk thistle and a few other things. This herbal combo reversed the numbers, brought his liver function (alt and ast) down to high normal, whereas they had been going way up.
He kept to this regimen and was going along fine, back to not feeling impacted by the virus, though of course he knew it was still there. However, at his checkup last June, his numbers were starting to go up again, and now that there was a real cure available, his naturopath said, ok, now the new drugs have been proven effective and have minimal side effects, so time to give that a try, if you can afford it. Which of course, hardly anybody can. So then we started on that journey.
Meanwhile, what my husband hadn't mentioned to me was that because he was feeling so unaffected by the disease, he had started being not so diligent about taking the Livercel. Taking it once a day instead of twice, or skipping a day, etc. Once he got the higher numbers in June, he started taking them religiously, never skipping. And you know what? HIS NUMBERS WENT DOWN AGAIN. The RNA quantitation was 15,774,971 in June, and on the 11th January, it had gone down to 6,646,637. Down about 60%. This shows to me that the Livercel was having effect. So look into that while you are waiting for the new medicines to be available at a reasonable price.
Meanwhile, although his allopathic doctor's request for Harvoni was initially denied by the health care insurance company, they approved it when she resubmitted it. And they signed him up for the Harvoni's patient co-pay subsidy. He has been on it for a week, and so far no side effects at all. I asked him if he felt anything at all yet, and he said, "I think they must have given me the placebo.
I was diagnosed with Atrial Fibrillation about a year ago and have been treated with Bisoprolol and Aspirin. This seems to be working for me but have been advised by my doctor to go onto warfarin as I am at medium risk of a stroke. I don't want to change anything at the moment whilst the present medication seems to be working because I have heard some negative reports of warfarin - not only the side effects of hair loss etc. and giving up various foods but also the fact that you have to tell your doctor about practically any changes in what you eat and where you go (holidays etc). This seems very restrictive. Could I please have your experiences of taking Warfarin.
View 4 RepliesI am having a tubal ligation and the novasure procedure done on the 31st of aug. and i usually have horrible cramps. Just wondering just how painful this is gonna be ? and has anyone else had this procedure done?
View 2 RepliesI'm hoping to start a clinical trial for Enbrel beginning in May (they need me on MTX for 3 months before I can start the trial) and am wondering if anyone that has used it or is on it currently can tell me how they're doing on it?
I woke up this morning with that heavy duty exhausted, malaise feeling that I felt for so many months before being diagnosed last summer. I had to work a mandatory training 40 hours last week, played catch up over the weekend and worked another 8 hours yesterday. I woke up to that heaviness in the chest; not a sick like heavy as in bronchitis or chest cold, but literally like someone was draining my insides out. I am emotional today and that's what happens when I get these episodes.
Doe anyone know anything about this med or have taken it?? Have gone from 15 mgs of pred to 10 to 7.5 mgs since December when I was diagnosed with pmr. 7.5 was not cutting it and dropped it back to 10mgs and also started me on hydroxychloroquine. The hope is to get off of the pred all together. I'm taking both meds for now until my next appt. in July. Has anyone had experience on this med?
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