I was diagnosed with diverticulitis last week. My symptoms were just a pain in my lower left side, exacerbated with movement and severly sensitive to pressure. After 4 or 5 days on antibiotics the pain cleared up. The Doc says that we still need to do a colonoscopy in a month or too to make sure it wasn't colon cancer though. He's fairly sure it was diverticulitis, but just to be 110%.
So now I'm very nervous, especially as although the pain is gone my bowel doesn't seem to have recovered. I have some constipation and when I do have movements (usually in the morning) my movements are narrow and runny - could this be from the diverticulitis?
And so, how do I get them back to normal after the diverticulits? If I had one solid movement my fear of colon cancer would go as without the pain and the narrow movements I'd have no symptoms. But how do I get this? Do I go to fiber straight away? or do I wait until the bowel has recovered and then then do it? How long after a flare up of diverticular infection does the bowel retuen to normal movements?
Any help would be hugely appreciated! :)