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Anyone else have a Redundant/Tortuous Colon?

Digestive Health | Last Active: Apr 26 7:31pm | Replies (1639)

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I had the same diagnosis re long, redundant , twisty colon and had awful constipation for my entire life. Colonoscopies were a nightmare back in the day when you were lucky to get a Valium. I am 62. 2 1/2 years ago I had a bowel obstruction from a cecal volulous and had to undergo emergency surgery (right hemicolectomy) to remove all of the ascending colon and then some. About 2 feet. It's been a long, hard recovery but with a good doctor, I've done pretty well with the bowel problems. Have been constipated twice since surgery. My colon had a rotated cecum-- rare, congenital bowel malformation that no test can detect unless you obstruct. The surgery itself is an awful recovery but, I'm grateful to be alive since the mortality rate for a cecal volvulus is high. I don't know if the rotated cecum has anything to do with the colon being extra long and twisty.

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I wonder if my post-depression baby birth resulted in shorter me and normal colon! Just a thought!

Sound very similar to what I just experience this past summer. I am starting to have more constipation again now.

I had the exact same surgery in November, and the same thing: a mobile cecum.

@tiss I hear your pain. I would go to the emergency room with terrible pains, and they would just give me pain medicine and xray and tell me I was constipated and tell me to go home eat fiber drink water. It wasn't until I had the surgery to.Remove part of my colon that I was happy. It was so long that it looped up over my liver. I still have constipation, but it doesn't last as long as it did. And it's easier to manage.