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Michael Kirsch, MD's avatar

Tom, you’ve had more exposure to the specialty of gastroenterology than most. I’m glad that you have an effective program in place. For your own knowledge, we now feel that many cases of diverticulitis can be treated without antibiotics. Thx for your comment.

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Tom Hamilton's avatar

For a while few months I couldn't eat walnuts (loose stools), soy, peanuts (gas). But I really got an infection going in the diverticulitis a couple months ago and had to go to the hospital for a couple days and take Cipro along with flagyl for 10 days and I took some probiotics for 30 days to bring back the bacteria. now I can have those foods without any issues. The hospital doctor put me on magnesium supplements and had me eat less than two bananas a day cuz I had high potassium and add salt to my drinking water because I always have low sodium. I still have mysterious blood loss but a pill endoscopy and a colonoscopy (found diverticulum) and the endoscopy couldn't find any bleeding. My grandmother's diverticulitis caused a lot of blood loss.

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