Tracy I am starting to regret my surgery also. I know I needed it but I am in more pain than before resection

I’m sorry you’re still in pain after 3 months! I too needed the surgery (although I wish now I had done more research). I’m only not quite 3 weeks out but so far it is nothing like I anticipated. I wonder if anyone feels like their old self?

Don’t worry. I was told that all colorectal surgeons say it takes at least a year to get back to normal after a colon resection, even a laparoscopic robotic one like mine. I was in extreme pain off and on for several months, especially on the right side where the robot arms went in to go to the left to perform the surgery. I would also have explosive bowel movements without warning. Both those issues have passed and it is now just over a year since my surgery. What remains are frequent bowel movements, ranging from 4 to 7 times over a 24 period, which are sometimes pencil thin or small clumps. I will be seeing my gastroenterologist soon but hesitate to have yet another CT Scan. Too much radiation.

Did it get any better, I had surgery 3 weeks ago for diverticulitis and pulling and pain in my right side is horrible I've had two CT scans that say I'm fine but I can't sit or get up or do anything. I'm just wondering if it got ever got better

I am four months post op. I am in my eighties. Because of constipation my surgeon suggested Metamucil. I take this morning and evening and it really helps. If I don’t I don’t “go”. Eat well fruit every day, prunes for brekky. Mind you Metamucil is fine ground psyllium orange flavoured. I do get lots of high tummy ache though.