It wasn't my dr who told me this; I think I read it here on this site: the latest thinking in the medical community on the best diet for diverticulosis/itis is plenty of fiber but it's important what kind of fiber. So what I read is no nuts or seeds; no leafy green veggies (so no more salad!); only canned fruits and veggies (the fresh or frozen are just too rough); and no whole grains,

I haven't asked my dr. about the above diet specifically but he seems to be of the same attitude that I read somewhere that 1 of the foremost doctors in the gastroenterology field recently said, that it appears that some poor people are just born with terrrible, almost non-functional digestive tracts about which not a darn thing can be done except for these people to eat only small (2 or 3 bites) of food at a time and wait several hours before they try it again.

If that is really the case, it's of course depressing but it also kind of gives me a sense of relief. All my life I've heard, and I always thought it too, that if you have digestive problems, at least some of it is *your* own fault. (Seems to make sense: if you're having trouble with what comes out--or refuses to come out, sigh--what's going in is the problem.) All my life I've heard (always from people who don't suffer from this of course), you must be eating the wrong thing; or you're not eating the right thing; or you're not taking the right kind of supplements; or you should stop taking supplements; or you're not drinking enough water; or you're drinking too much water or at the wrong time. You must be doing something wrong! "You, you, you"!

So to hear someone acknowledge that at least some of us have tried everything, so hard and that the only thing we done "wrong" is chose the wrong parents to be born to is a relief, that someone finally believes us and doesn't blame us.