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That's one of the reasons I'm giving up bananas and coffee as I didn't eat them over there and was better. I took a week off recently and took myself off to the Canary Islands hoping the sun and rest would help - and I was well over there. Anyway, for my first experiment I'm giving high fibre cereals a miss for a while, also bananas and coffee and will see how that goes. There are a few other things I've been thinking about and believe it's bananas, and possibility coffee. I've already given up Wheatabix and porridge (oatmeal) because I cel they had irritated the condition in the past. I think I'll give up cereals altogether for a while. I've looked at what I've eaten for the last few days and realised I'd had All bran the previous two mornings. I believe you're right about the food, I think there are some foods that are irritating the condition and I'm not recovered enough to tolerate them. Thankfully I'm a good bit better today, and have been able to have a swim and a bit of a walk around town - loads more energy. It really lifted my spirits to see I'm not alone. Thank you so much for your response, I really do appreciate it. Good luck - keep the faith - you will get there! The annoying thing about this disease is you have to experiment and try and find what works for you If you read the blogs on this site (eg Felinia) you'll find tons of dietry advise through the various stages of an attack, starting with a liquid diet then slowly introducing fiber back in, also taking things like probiotics and aloe vera (I believe they help me but it isnt completely clear) - avoiding food groups that act as triggers (In my case the only one I have definitely isolated are peanuts) also avoid large meal portions which also tend to cause trouble. It could be that you are still eating something that is irritating you at a low level or that any stress you are experiencing isnt letting you fully recover? Work tends to be such a great source of that! If you can book some time off maybe and properly convalesce? There are some very good blogs on the site of people who have been managing this disease for years so have a look. I'm now a month into this attack and "almost" better - I can tolerate work but still get twinges and tiredness. I have an antibiotics perscription and the moment I get an attack start taking those - they definitely control the fever quickly - with the course normally 7-10 days. Also, like you, stress causes an effect - I went back to work after 10 days, managed two days and then had to be off till the following week. Symptomatically you and I are very similar though, where after the first day or so (super ill with fever) you'll get very substantial variation - one day almost well, the next day back down and so on, extreme fatigue, feeling really unwell, sick etc. (Before the colonoscopy showed the diverticulosis my doctor had concluded I was suffering from colitis) its interesting that there is a condition called SCAD (segmental colitis associated with diverticula) which seems to be a sort of part way stage between diviticulitis and colitus, where you get colitis occurring between sites of diviticula rather than inside them but I need to find out more about this.
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A second colonoscopy shows diviticula spread throughout the colon though CAT scan was unable to detect where the inflamation was. However at the end of last year this thing kicked off big time and this year I've had about 5 attacks (average length 10-12 day). What you describe is very close to my experience - I'm 55 and had first attacks of fever, pain etc over 5 years ago - a colonoscopy at that time didnt show much in the way of diverticula.