A member asked:

Please provide a tip on how to ask your doctor about diverticulitis.

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Ignore: If you have left lower sided pain and it comes on occasionally, you should see a doctor

Answered 8/5/2014

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Dr. K. Mujib Haque answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Ignore: Repeated diverticulitis attacks may need to consider surgerical removal part of colon.

Answered 7/1/2014

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Dr. John Munshower answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Ignore: Ask your Dr. for a diet to help reduce diverticulitis bouts.

Answered 7/24/2014

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Dr. John Choi answered

Ignore: If your diverticulitis persists after antibiotics, you may have smoldering diverticulitis - surgery?

Answered 3/14/2015

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Ignore: If you get attacks of diverticulitis often, ask doctor when surgery may be necessary.

Answered 2/23/2016

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Dr. Jacob Petrosky answered

Specializes in General Surgery

Ask: Ask your doctor how severe your case and if you're case can be cured with surgery.

Answered 3/27/2019

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My doctor told me I have diverticulosis. Is it same as diverticulitis?

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