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Hello @virginia44 and welcome to Mayo Connect, You have asked a very good question about fiber...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/261076/

Discussion: Recommended fiber amount for diverticulosis and tortuous colon

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: May 5, 2019

Well, you are all up my alley. My appendix burst on a cruise ship in 2015...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1013387/

Discussion: Partial Small Bowel Obstruction Pain: Do things get better?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Feb 10, 2024

I have complained for years that I can feel food to feces travel through my intestines....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/881328/

Discussion: Just diagnosed with tortuous colon

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jun 19, 2023

I’m sorry for your troubles. It’s good to get a colonoscopy. I assume you failed due...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/745695/

Discussion: Failed prep for colonoscopy: What can I do?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Sep 5, 2022

I, too, am learning to live with a tortuous colon, diagnosed in my last colonoscopy several...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/703384/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Apr 28, 2022

Just read all of your posts! So much information and so much in common with so...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/710503/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: May 22, 2022

I also have slow colonic motliity (as shown by Sitz marker test done without stopping my...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1130221/

Discussion: What help is available for very slow motility?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Aug 25, 2024

I've been following this thread about tortuous colon since I was diagnosed after a colonoscopy fall...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/710428/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: May 22, 2022

Oh my goodness!! I know what the starve all day ..and eat only when you have...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1156013/

Discussion: Autoimmune atrophic gastritis, chronic fatigue & SIBO

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Oct 12, 2024

I need to clarify. She wasn’t saying it was “all in my head” or that I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/714629/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jun 5, 2022

I posted this as a reply to a comment below — may be best situated here....

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/703385/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Apr 28, 2022

I have combined the Institute of Functional Medicine elimination diet with the Monash Low Fodmap diet,...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/880303/

Discussion: DIY or with dietician - IBS?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jun 17, 2023

I’ve had bowel issues pretty much my whole life….I’m 52. As a child had severe constipation...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/722850/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jul 1, 2022

So sorry! It takes more than just Miralax or the like to help with the problem...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/602539/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: May 17, 2021

LONG FIBER VEGES IS THE KEY! I haven't seen this suggestion in this thread. I've had...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/225168/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Mar 29, 2021

I saw a new colo-rectal surgeon who ordered the Sitz marker study as well as an...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/891776/

Discussion: Slow transit constipation and surgery

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jul 7, 2023

I had c-dif for the first time in 2019 and was a wreck. My GI Dr...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/93815/

Discussion: Trying to recover from a c. diff infection (Clostridium difficile)

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Mar 6, 2021

Prayers for you!! I had my gallbladder out several years ago...I live very rural..very.. and a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1141679/

Discussion: Gastroparesis, IBS, Lazy gallbladder, Pain..Pain..Pain..

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Sep 15, 2024

I had mild constipation all my life, combined with wild diarhhea for a day every few...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/914901/

Discussion: I am looking for others diagnosed with microscopic colitis

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Aug 18, 2023

Yes, I am 70 and JUST found out I have a redundant/tortuous colon from a colonoscopy!...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/820326/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Mar 3, 2023

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