Hello everyone & so so thirsty.

[JamesEcuador]

My pain is mostly underneath my belly button and to the left side. This has been almost constant for around 8 months now, even whilst managing a very strict diet. My dad also suffered from diverticulitis and i mentioned this to my doctor. No obvious signs of it in my colonoscopy though (only MC after a biopsy). Is it pretty easy to spot diverticulitis in a colonoscopy?

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Is it pretty easy to spot diverticulitis in a colonoscopy?

Yes, provided the inflammation is significant. Interestingly though, I've seen at least one research article that mentioned that the primary mode of inflammation associated with diverticulitis is lymphocytic infiltration (which is the same as LC). So I wonder if it's possible for your pain to be associated with preliminary or background inflammation, but an actual flare of diverticulitis has not (yet) occurred.

Did your colonoscopy report (the operative report from the GI specialist, not the pathology report) mention any "tics"? "Tics" are doctorspeak for the pouches that develop when someone has diverticulosis. If the diverticuli become inflamed, then the diagnosis is diverticulitis. These diverticuli develop as we age (presumably provided that we have the proper genetics, and environmental situation). They usually begin to show up during the 40s. It's possible that you may not be old enough for them to be developing. For some lucky individuals, they never become inflamed, so the person would never be aware of them unless his or her GI specialist mentioned them following a colonoscopy. Mine were apparently inflamed, but I was never aware of it, because the pain was on the other side (most diverticuli typically develop in the sigmoid colon, though it's possible for them to develop in other locations, even in the small intestine).

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