Suggest Treatment For Pain Caused By Diverticulitis

Posted on Sat, 2 Jan 2016

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Sat, 2 Jan 2016 Answered on

Thu, 28 Jan 2016 Last reviewed on

Question : When diverticulitis becomes so painful you don't want to move

Answered by Dr. Dr. Ivan Romich (34 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
consider intravenous antibiotics or surgery

Detailed Answer:
Hi and welcome to HCM.
Diverticulitis may be more or less sever and in most cases it can be treated with peroral antibiotics.However in cases of repeated attacks it may progress to colon inflammation and perforation so if there is no improvement after 3-4 days, you should do ct scan and consider intravenous antibiotic therapy or in some cases surgical resection of sigmoid colon. Wish you good health. Regards

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