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I have been doing so well on the low-fiber diet. Then, two weeks ago, we drove...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/737289/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Aug 14, 2022

How! New here. I was informed, only by reading my colonoscopy results that I have a...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1344069/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jul 8, 2025

So you mentioned pancreatic insufficiency… Do you take the prescription enzymes? ie, zenpep or creon? I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/721022/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jun 25, 2022

I was just diagnosed with a tortuous colon with a redundant transverse colon. I have had...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/860910/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: May 16, 2023

I’ve had them since my 20’s, worse after kids. Now 64. Always constipated. Usually just flared...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/706380/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: May 8, 2022

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

Hello group. I just found this group and need help! I have tortuous colon that has...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/905892/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Aug 1, 2023

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

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

Discussion: Bowel obstructions caused by adhesions following abdominal surgery

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: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Jun 19, 2023

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

After reading through your experiences @electracat, I see a lot of similarities to my issues. I...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1408615/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Oct 5, 2025

Your constipation issues are very similar to mine. I found out I have a tortuous or...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1414852/

Discussion: Incomplete bowel evacuation. What could be causing this? Advice?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Oct 13, 2025

@electracat Hi…I take the 1 dose of MiraLAX around 11 am with my last coffee of...

https://connect.mayoclinic.org/comment/1406078/

Discussion: Anyone else have a Redundant / Tortuous Colon?

Support Group: Digestive Health

Posted: Oct 1, 2025

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

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

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

Discussion: Diet for 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

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