Diverticula/diverticulitis

carcharm

I missed work about 3 weeks ago because I thought I had the flu. I continued to have pain and gi issues for 3 weeks so I went to see a GI specialists. I had an interesting conversation with him. Two things-he said that he believes people with tics can develop diverticulitis just from having a colonscopy which I had a couple months ago. He said he's seen it flair up a month after the procedure. The other thing was that I was wide awake for my egd and colonscopy. The doctor that did it said she gave me the maximum versed fenanyl possible. When I mentioned this to him he said #1 he would have stopped the procedure. #2 sometimes "the max" amount a GI docs deems as "the most" is not the same as was an anesthesiologist would. He only does procedures with a CNA or an anestesiologist and uses propofol. He's had too many cases of people suddenly feeling everything during the procedure. Lesson: if I need another procdure I will make sure the GI doc is not the one monitoring the concious sedation. There needs to be a Nurse anesthesist or anes. present in the room. After all this I have to go for a CT scan to see what is causing the lower left pain. Freaking out once again.

kathleen1966

I had diverticula and diverticulitis that was diagnosed via a colonoscopy that I had when I was 40. I opted to have no sedation at the time because I was nursing and didn't want the anesthesia going into the breast milk (nursing nutcase).  It wasn't really all that bad and it was very interesting seeing the inside of my colon on the screen and being completely awake.  Plus I got to leave immediately afterwards and didn't have to wait around for the anesthesia to wear off. My diverticulitis was very painful (though I did not have pain during the colonoscopy) but went away very quickly with a mild antibiotic.  I hope you figure out what is going on soon!