Hello @celia16

Here is an explanation from the Mayo Clinic website regarding diverticulitis.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/diverticulitis/symptoms-causes/syc-20371758
Are you interested in this because you or a family member deal with diverticulitis?

Hi, Celia,
I'm pretty new to episodes, so my experiences are very limited. What seems to be a hallmark, in my case, is a sharp left sided pain in the lower abdomen and low-grade fever - usually at night. For me, the sharp pain is intermittent and not debilitating. I also get other pains - achy, crampy feeling across the lower abdomen, plank ache, heaviness on left side that feels arthritic, achy legs from knees up. These pains are also sporadic. My appetite goes down; I get sleepy. I can't say how long it (generally?) takes to get over the acute phase because when I was sick last November I had a bad reaction to the first drug, Augmentin, which I stayed on for the full course, because I thought it was the illness making me so sick.