Thank you very much Shelly for your good wishes. Yes the surgery would be on my sigmoid colon removing about 12 inches. Evidently I’ve had diverticulosis forming for years and then if it gets inflamed, that is when it’s diverticulitis. I’ve thought since my 20s that I had IBS. And I know that I did not have bad diverticulosis in 2007 when I had my last colonoscopy. I had an attack of diverticulitis last December after high doses of ibuprofen following Dental work and then I had an attack in January. My colonoscopy had already been planned from last October for the end of January and we were all just shocked at the stenosis and severity of the diverticulosis. I’ve been trying to work with diet, supplements Metamucil, MiraLAX, magnesium and still Having difficulty…I don’t go daily. Even drink abiut 60oz h2o daily.

The surgeon told me it was not a matter of if but when to have the surgery so I went ahead and scheduled the surgery. However, as it gets closer, I’m having second thoughts. 😩
I worry about potential complications in the future, such as perforation, fistula or obstruction, from diverticulosis, but I wish I could find a way to management medically.
I’m not sure about the balloon dilation just because the surgeon said there is a narrowing south of the sigmoid colon that she thought was from adhesions from a prior surgery, which I had my appendix out at nine and my right ovary about 14 years ago so on the right side. So again, I’m not sure if balloon dilation is an option, but it may be something to think about before I go ahead with the surgery. 🤷‍♀️