I didn’t have diverticulitis, but I did have a colon perforation. I started out with a tumor in my sigmoid found during colonoscopy. I had been having pain but thought it was a kidney stone. I had a resection (actually two) and developed a leak. I had a second surgery about a week later. Three months later an obstruction, surgery, then a month later developed a fistula. Ultimately that caused the perforation and I became septic after surgery. I was in ICU for five weeks and in a coma. I was put on TPN, which gave my body high doses of calories to heal and helped me gain weight all while my colon healed. I also did twice daily shots of octreotide (spelling?) and stayed on TPN (nothing by mouth except ice) for two months. This helped my colon heal. I was on augmenting and flagyl multiple times over a six month period. I had no adverse effects from it. This was three years ago and I’m not done.

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