This time my attack was all over my abdomen so bloated. It hurt on the left and the right side! Then when I started Flagyl, the pain was localized on the left lower quadrant. Now its subsiding and getting twinges on the left side after 4 days of medication. Stomach is still bloated.

IMO I think Diverticulosis and Diverticulitis are symptoms of a food intolerance. Be it dairy, wheat, gluten, red meat, whatever. Why can some people eat low carb with no symptoms? Why do some people thrive on a vegetarian diet or vegan diet? Its all individual and what that particular person can or cannot tolerate.

Here is what a doctor told me about the pain moving around. When you have an irritation in the intestines in one place, the entire thing reacts like a snake, since it is a bundle of muscles. I actually get bad stabbing pain on the left side when it flares up.
There is a drug that is not a pain killer or muscle relaxer but somehow it stops the pain and relaxes the gut. It's called Dicyclomine. It can be used as needed.

Not an expert here but would like to know more---- seems the GI has a very complex job and it woud make sense that our food choices make a huge impact.

Recently I am learning that we could/should eat foods that are p rotective of the GI and even supportive.

Being a lover of food, and cooking and gardening and raising my own meats ( some of it) I am on a journey of realizing how many foods have fallen off our plates and are forgotton.

How many foods were fermented before consuming: pickled vegies, natto, tempeh, etc. How many grains were fermented before consuming like beers and mead ( was that grain based?) . ANd a time when fermented foods are still eaten in the third world countries......

I am becoming certain that what we eat either helps or hurts the GI and sets it up to become ill, or keeps it healthy and functioning correctly.

There are many things that could contribute; stress, food poisoning, lifelong antibiotic use since childhood for most of us since it was invented for everything, low-fat/high fiber diets pushed on us since the 70s. Could be any or all of the above!

Im looking thru Dr Granby's works and find it amazing. DOes anyone suggest that ?? The Plant Paradox seems worth the read as just the bits available thru AMazon sneak peak has me convinced that healing the gut must include limiting the lectins and possibly eliminating them for some people.

lectins are the dark shade veggies?

no. These are a group of chemicals that plants use to protect themselves....beans, legumes, peanuts, all grains. All night shades: potatoes, tomatoes, goji berries, etc.

The amount can be reduced thru heat treatment, fermentation, soaking, sprouting.

High in the hulls, bran and germ of the seeds, so white rice is better than brown . Just as well more arsnic, is higher in the brown rice than the white rice.

Glutin is ONE kind of lectin.

I had a lot of antibiotics as a kid. Tetracycline..others amox. I plan on really increasing my probiotics and prebiotic fiber after this flare. I'm going to take 50 billion and work my way to 90 billion probiotics. I don't think I was taking enough. Odd was right when I got the attack, I was drinking kefir, which I haven't had in a long time. Could diverticulitis be actually caused by a food intolerance like to dairy? (lowers the immune system and irritates the bowl and allows the bad bacteria to grow) All I know is when I was vegetarian I never had any issues.

I'm not sure...could it have been constipation from too much cheese and meat that caused it? or the intolerance to dairy? If the stools are not moving fast through the colon,(which a high fiber diet would cause) then they would stop and the fecal matter has a chance to lodge in the pockets then the bacteria grows.

Curious that there is NOTHING about the health of the GI. Seems to me the GI should be able to handle all these issues without causing an issue.

Poor gut health seems to be another victim of SADS.

I'll be the first person to admit my diet wasn't good during the first 2 flares. I found out from the doctor, I had flares 6/14, 7/17 and now again 7/18. Why is it always in the summer? Is it because bacteria grows easier in the summer? weird. My diet was not good I was eating sugar, dairy, processed foods. I was so annoyed that with this flare, I was eating very healthy, keto, and no sugar..No sweeteners except a little bit of monk fruit. (but was eating a lot of dairy, cheese, and cream, butter)

Im sorry you have to deal with this-- gut pain is unbearable.

THe summer connection is interesting. Clearly, a clue. Perhaps a build up in the months earlier or perhaps one acute event.

Months ago I started adding more fermented type foods to support the GI microflora, and now given the high change of developing diverticulitis, that is one more reason to help the gut.

Yesterday I learned that Vit C is important to the health of the GI track.

Yesterday I learned that lectins can be irritating to the gut. And how our food prep has changed in a couple generations---thses new methods allows far more lectins to enter our mouth. We used to soak and rinse our beans several times before cooking, and our grains, or soak grains in a yogurt or similar.......or peel and seed tomatos and peppers.....

Apparently raw dairy has a bettter componemt profile that aids in digestion and better health because some components are protective against the dairy.

Im learning A1 v A2 milks---holy cow. lol A1 is a recent genetic change and produced by the prefered high producing Holsteins; the A2 is in a few other breeds like the Jersey who is a small cow with high butterfat but not the commercial powerhouse the Holstein it; also goats and sheep are A2.

I am no expert. But these effects make sense to me.

from Mayo CLinic



When I look at the risk factors isted below I see issues caused by SAD

these are Med MD recommendations, but again these are supperficial .....