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I was diagnosed with diverticulitis

Digestive Health | Last Active: Oct 13, 2022 | Replies (42)

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Hello @speedbird and welcome to Connect. I appreciate you sharing about your laparoscopic sigmoid colectomy. I especially am glad that you have learned how to adjust your eating habits to accommodate the change in your digestive tract. After surgery of this type, eating usually cannot go back to your previous eating plan. Adjustments need to be made and you did it! So, congratulations on that accomplishment.

I'm glad that you had minimal pain. It sounds as if your surgeon was very aware and made sure you had enough help with pain. You mentioned that you surgeon ordered a "pain block" prior to surgery. Was this an epidural? Was it removed when you were discharged from the hospital?

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Went back into my chart to research notes from the Anesthesiologist. It is called a Peripheral Nerve Block ordered by the surgeon prior to surgery to control post-op pain. I was under at the time and do not recall much about this, all I know is it worked really good!