I experienced the same thing - chronic diverticulitis where antibiotics stopped working to get rid of the infection. I’m almost 5 weeks out of my surgery. This group has been a blessing for my recovery. It’s hard to know what’s normal and what’s not and it’s helped me try things to slowly get back to normal. My experience at 5 weeks - the pain is less severe, I am walking several times a day (short walks), tire easily and my bowels are still odd. I’ve had days where I’ve gone 10+ times and days that have been pretty normal and right now I’m on day 3 without a bowel movement. I have good days and bad days but every week that goes by I do feel as if I’m improving from the week before. I’ll be thinking about you and hope you let us know how you are doing!