Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Oh my heart goes out to you all!! I have battled constipation all my life.. I remember my Mother giving me enemas as a 5 year old..(and running from the sight of her coming.....!!) So.. I even got so backed up, I had to take an ambulance to a hospital and they gave me a lactulose enema (not good.. intolerant of milk).. the next time I almost died.. went into a "sweat out" and sweated out so much fluid..completey soaked.. called the ambulance .. blood pressure 60 over 40 and it took him 10 min in the driveway to find a vein to start a drip.. used 2 bads on the 45 min drive to the hospital.. so constipation is something I have deep concerns over.. all that said.. I was diagnosed with a tortuous colon last fall.. and was referred to a surgeon..but 15 days prior.. I began to use the potty.. 3-5 times a day.. and continue to do so.. since Oct 15th 2024..I'm 71 now.. (I've been hospitalized atleast 3 times for colitis..) so.. the take away..I do use Trulance ..and Miralax (sometimes twice a day) and drink lots of water.. and drink 2 Vanilla plant based Ensures a day (5mg fava pea fiber) and eat 1 Thomas multi grain English muffin ..8 grams fiber a day..have to really watch what I eat.. hiatal hernia, gastritis, GERD..I feel your agony!! Not going to get "preachy here.. I attribute my bowel change to standing in faith.. the surgeon said "I don't know what you're doing.. biofeed back or what ever..but it's working..I said "The Word works"..still standing in faith for complete healing manifestation of digestive system..I hope some of these things might help someone else.. constipation is nothing to be scoffed at..it's real and it's painful in so many ways.. anxiety.. the whole thing.. I'll pray for you all!!

Great story here. So many times we look at everything else before looking at the Word.

My late husband had a tortuous colon. He ate healthy all of his life, but when he was in his 50’s he had to start taking Benefiber every day. That seemed to work for him and he didn’t have any problems until, when he was 72, he had sudden onset Lewy body dementia with Parkinson’s, and I cared for him for four years before he died of it, and his constipation got worse. (long story involving a temporary stay at a facility.) After that, I gave him half a capful of Miralax every day and it kept him regular. He never had to have surgery or anything, for which I’m thankful. I hope you can find something that works for you. I guess he was lucky, well, not the last part. 😪💕

I have a tortuous colon. When I had a colonoscopy, the surgeon's nurse had to press extremely hard over my belly and when I woke up, I was black and blue there. The doc said he had to have help to get past the "twist".

Wow, I’ve never heard of that. I mean the bruising part. You must have quite a twist in there! I hope it doesn’t cause you too many problems. 💕

I just had a colonoscopy, my third. I looked at the report and the doc mentioned a tortuos colon but no polyps. I do have diverticula throughout the whole colon. He took biopsies to figure out why I have been having chronic diarrhea and inability to absorb magnesium. None of my other colonoscopies have mentioned this condition. Maybe not mentioned because it wasn't tortuous, just redundant and I weighed 50 lbs more at the time.
I am 5' 1" tall and used to weigh 220 lbs, but am down in the last 3 years to 170. I am type 2 diabetic and have afib. I have had 5 pregnancies. And just had an umbilical hernia repair in January 2025. When I was young, I had chronic gas and constipation. I had a diet of mostly cereals, oats, cream of wheat, processed lunch meats, rice, potatoes, and vegetables with occasional meat, but didn't like meat much. Now I am 70 and have had in the last 25 years, peritonitis with an unknown cause (my appendix is intact), diverticulitis with 3 or 4 diverticula that now are all through my colon, colon polyps but none on this recent colonoscopy, a gall bladder removed in 2018 because gall stones blocked my pancreas and caused pancreatitis, acid reflux which endoscope showed a little bit of irritation and inflammation in the lower stomach, and finally chronic diarrhea with occasional constipation. All bacterial stool tests and blood work so far is normal. I eat oats, shredded wheat and 100% whole wheat bread, pasta not enriched with folate, brown rice, potatoes and sweet potatoes, vegetables and fruits, eggs, cheese, and 2% milk, small amounts of meat and fish once a day.
I have been in the hospital due to low magnesium, potassium, and calcium and develop kidney stones. I am under care of a hospital based weight loss program also. I am currently following low FODMAP and my stomach pain is less but the diarrhea still here.