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Muscles posted...

I really regret coming in, now I'm stuck here and can't leave, I wasn't prepared to stay the night. I had a Dr's appointment scheduled tomorrow anyways so they would have found it out.

Look, I get that feeling of wanting to just go home and not have to deal with this, but Diverticulitis is serious* so I wouldn't risk it.

Serious* because according to my surgeon a lot of people, especially older people, do not get surgery to fix it, but just live with flare ups. I don't know, a diverticulitis flare up for me felt like somebody twisting a knife in my abdomen on my left side. BUT as far as I know, diverticulitis itself isn't deadly or anything, just lots of pain during flare ups.

Mine was pretty bad, I guess. The doctor told my mom during surgery that I was really sick...For me, once I found out what it was and had surgery on the horizon, I didn't bother to report flare ups, also because I had a lot of antibiotics which help lessen those flare ups. So I could tell I was having one but it wasn't bad at all because antibiotics. The ostomy bag, for me, was because of how bad it was, they put that in to give my colon a rest for a month to heal up before they converted it back.

So overall, this wasn't too bad everything considered. Good to hear yours might be a lot less severe. In either case, I don't feel like this is a life threatening thing but flare ups suck so good to get it taken care of early.