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Gavinmad · Aug 27, 2015

Well I assume they used something more precise than a flaming brand they pulled out of a bonfire, but who the hell knows.

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Lendarios · Aug 27, 2015

I think its was electric curette. well I was sleeping, but the subsequent week pain, was bad. Not as bad as the first time when I had open butt surgery. That first time was bend over, inject anesthesia, grab knife, cut .. sew. go home.

Frenzied Wombat · Aug 27, 2015

Christ guys.

Suddenly I don't feel so shitty about my yearly diverticulitis flare up and degenerative arthritis in my lower spine due to years of slouching while playing video games. At least I'm not getting a Tesla coil shoved up my ass!

Izo · Aug 27, 2015

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
Christ guys.

Suddenly I don't feel so shitty about my yearly diverticulitis flare up and degenerative arthritis in my lower spine due to years of slouching while playing video games. At least I'm not getting a Tesla coil shoved up my ass!

What stage is your diverticulitis?

Noodleface · Aug 27, 2015

My mother in law almost died from diverticulitis, shit is the real deal.

Frenzied Wombat · Aug 27, 2015

Izo_sl said:
What stage is your diverticulitis?

I don't think it really can be "staged". It's one of those things where after you have your first "attack" simply looms over your head as one of those things you can't predict. Doctors just don't seem capable of predicting what will cause it, and don't want to operate unless you have a high frequency of attacks. In my case, I'm not riddled with "divirtuculi" like some, but then again my gastro says he's seen people with many pockets that almost never have attacks, while others with very few have frequent ones.

I've had two attacks in the last two years, neither of which required hospitalization thank god, just multiple oral antibiotics. Thankfully since losing the 20lbs I needed to in order to get a healthy BMI, cutting out a lot of carbs, and taking Miralax and a probiotic every day I haven't had an attack in almost a year. But who fucking knows if that's even the reason. The docs are pretty clueless as to what causes flare-ups in the first place, let alone what keeps them at bay besides possibly fiber. Bottom line any type of constipation becomes your mortal enemy.

But yeah, I'm only 42 and diverticuli don't "go away", so I'm not looking forward to what the future may hold. At this point I don't know how my spine will last another twenty years.

a_skeleton_03 · Aug 27, 2015

Yeah my spleen pain was being discussed as diverticulitis and I had a colonoscopy/endoscopy planned. While the doc was doing an ultrasound of the area to make sure he didn't need to make any weird turns he saw all the lymphoma tumors in my spleen.

They did the colonoscopy anyways .... assholes! Saw a very slight amount of H. pylori and that was it. Chemo nuked that away so was no point in taking antibiotics.

Nester · Aug 27, 2015

Sometimes it's a boil, sometimes it's a pimple, more often it's a gummy bear.

Frenzied Wombat · Aug 27, 2015

a_skeleton_03_sl said:
Yeah my spleen pain was being discussed as diverticulitis and I had a colonoscopy/endoscopy planned. While the doc was doing an ultrasound of the area to make sure he didn't need to make any weird turns he saw all the lymphoma tumors in my spleen.

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Well, I have carcinophobia. My internist keeps trying to get me to go see a therapist about it, but besides never having a high opinion of therapists in general, I don't see how they're going to help me overcome my constant fear of getting cancer since it's not an irrational feeling. Grandma died of stomach cancer, grandfather died of pancreatic cancer, aunt died of lung cancer, and mother died of ovarian cancer. After seeing each one slowly rot away and slowly die in a morphine induced fugue, it's become my number one anxiety/nightmare.

a_skeleton_03 · Aug 27, 2015

Yeah I don't see the need for therapy unless you are incapable of going about your day to day because of it. If you are just getting tests more often than your neighbor is well that's a calculated decision backed up by facts.

Izo · Aug 27, 2015

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
I don't think it really can be "staged". It's one of those things where after you have your first "attack" simply looms over your head as one of those things you can't predict. Doctors just don't seem capable of predicting what will cause it, and don't want to operate unless you have a high frequency of attacks. In my case, I'm not riddled with "divirtuculi" like some, but then again my gastro says he's seen people with many pockets that almost never have attacks, while others with very few have frequent ones.

I've had two attacks in the last two years, neither of which required hospitalization thank god, just multiple oral antibiotics. Thankfully since losing the 20lbs I needed to in order to get a healthy BMI, cutting out a lot of carbs, and taking Miralax and a probiotic every day I haven't had an attack in almost a year. But who fucking knows if that's even the reason. The docs are pretty clueless as to what causes flare-ups in the first place, let alone what keeps them at bay besides possibly fiber. Bottom line any type of constipation becomes your mortal enemy.

But yeah, I'm only 42 and diverticuli don't "go away", so I'm not looking forward to what the future may hold. At this point I don't know how my spine will last another twenty years.

Maybe it's different in the states? What you're describing is diverticulosis, with attacks, diverticulitis, perhaps acute uncomplicated -If you have inflammation without any abscesses or perforation. We stage theacute (complicated) diverticulitis after Hinchey.

Frenzied Wombat · Aug 27, 2015

Izo_sl said:
Maybe it's different in the states? What you're describing is diverticulosis, with attacks, diverticulitis, perhaps acute uncomplicated -If you have inflammation without any abscesses or perforation. We stage theacute (complicated) diverticulitis after Hinchey.

The way the gastro described it to me was diverticulosis is simply the condition of having the pockets in your colon, while diverticulitis is the "flare-up" when those pockets get infected or inflamed. All I know is my first flare-up presented itself as mild groin pain, severe intestinal bloating, and occasional "shooting" electrical like pain in the extreme lower left and right of my abdomen-- like right near my hips. It wasn't like any stomach ache I've had before and came on the heels of almost six month's worth of constipation. It wasn't particularly painful, just really uncomfortable. If the radiologist staged it (something I wasn't aware of until your link), he never communicated it to my gastro, or my gastro never communicated it to me. All I know is there was no perforation, though I did (and still do) have occasional blood spotting on toilet paper.

a_skeleton_03 · Aug 27, 2015

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
though I did (and still do) have occasional blood spotting on toilet paper.

LOL my doctors have always been baffled because I bleed like a stuck pig when I shit. I have more blood flow in one shit sometimes than my wife does from her period.

Two colonoscopies later they say "must be hemorrhoids we can't see" like that is good enough. I gave up though. Sometimes it's when I have soft shits and sometimes hard just blood all in the bowl. When I stand up I need to have tissue available because it will drip out of my ass and onto the floor or inside my boxers or down my leg.

I gave up on trying to figure it out. It will kill me or not.

Frenzied Wombat · Aug 27, 2015

a_skeleton_03_sl said:
LOL my doctors have always been baffled because I bleed like a stuck pig when I shit. I have more blood flow in one shit sometimes than my wife does from her period.

Two colonoscopies later they say "must be hemorrhoids we can't see" like that is good enough. I gave up though. Sometimes it's when I have soft shits and sometimes hard just blood all in the bowl. When I stand up I need to have tissue available because it will drip out of my ass and onto the floor or inside my boxers or down my leg.

I gave up on trying to figure it out. It will kill me or not.

Believe it or not I've never had a colonoscopy, which is kind of weird because I've read it's standard practice after you're diagnosed with diverticulitis. My gastro just kinda shrugs and says it's not necessary, just kind of like how he shrugs when I say I occasionally crap blood. It's not very encouraging to be honest.. I was so worried that I paid out of pocket for a Cologuard test (shit in a box, mail it off, and they DNA test it for cancer). That being said, if I was bleeding s much as you describe, I don't think I'd be able to live without a clear answer. You'd think they'd be able to figure out where it's coming from..

a_skeleton_03 · Aug 27, 2015

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
Believe it or not I've never had a colonoscopy, which is kind of weird because I've read it's standard practice after you're diagnosed with diverticulitis. My gastro just kinda shrugs and says it's not necessary, just kind of like how he shrugs when I say I occasionally crap blood. It's not very encouraging to be honest.. I was so worried that I paid out of pocket for a Cologuard test (shit in a box, mail it off, and they DNA test it for cancer). That being said, if I was bleeding s much as you describe, I don't think I'd be able to live without a clear answer. You'd think they'd be able to figure out where it's coming from..

Yeah it's been happening for 11 years, some years it kind of goes away.

I was worried about it but having gone through cancer and by doing that I had a LOT of scans done on my body they most likely would have found anything else that was wrong so until I get anemic from the loss of blood I will just power through it.

iannis · Aug 28, 2015

Blood in the stool is a major concern because it shouldn't be there and you need to know where it's coming from.

I think maybe your buttdoctor shrugs it off because he knows where it's coming from. Which is still a -little- bit lazy, because what if there's a new source instead of the one he knows about? But the odds are that it's the same place and that you'll be going through a battery of tests for no gain. It's a judgement call. If it really does bother you, speak up about it and ask him to spend the 30 seconds for his reasoning. "Uhh, Doc. What if it's something different?" I honestly expect what you'll get is, "I honestly don't think it is. But if it'll make you feel better..."

We do stage diverticulitis, but it's not often communicated that way. It really only makes a difference to the doctor in his diagnosis and treatment. Simple, Bad, and Worse is all that's useful to most everyone else.

Arden · Aug 28, 2015

Frenzied Wombat_sl said:
Well, I have carcinophobia. My internist keeps trying to get me to go see a therapist about it, but besides never having a high opinion of therapists in general, I don't see how they're going to help me overcome my constant fear of getting cancer since it's not an irrational feeling. Grandma died of stomach cancer, grandfather died of pancreatic cancer, aunt died of lung cancer, and mother died of ovarian cancer. After seeing each one slowly rot away and slowly die in a morphine induced fugue, it's become my number one anxiety/nightmare.

Everyone dies of cancer unless something else gets them first. It's not really a question of "if", it's a question of "when" and "where." What really turns people into carcinophobes aren't the stories of the people who die from cancer so much as the stories of people who find cancer early and manage to survive it. The doctor says "Soandso was lucky, he caught it early so we were able to eliminate it before it metastasized, etc, etc." Then we start thinking, well goddamn, I might get cancer, but I can probably survive it as long as I "catch it early." Then it turns us into these neurotic monsters trying to "beat cancer" by getting everything under the sun biopsied so we can catch the cancer early, until we have to switch to new doctors because our old doctors no longer take our concerns about cancer seriously enough. The whole time, our quality of life is severely suffering because instead of focusing on how we want to live, we are constantly worrying about how we are going to die.

I don't know if it would help you, but what helped me is simply accepting that I was going to die and possibly suffer doing it. Accepting my own mortality- and I meanreallyaccepting the inevitability of my own death- freed me from worrying so much about how it was going to happen and what I could do to stop it. In fact, I discovered that almost all the "phobias" and neurotic behaviors I was experiencing all turned out to simply be manifestations of my attempts to control my own mortality and prevent my own death. Those fears won't go away until you embrace the fact that, ultimately, youcan'tprevent it.

I'm not saying ignore your family history or neglect reasonable screenings. Making a reasonable effort to catch potential problems early is a good idea, just like it's a good idea to look both ways before crossing an intersection. No one wants to get cancer, just like no one wants to die in a car crash. What I'm saying is let go of the idea that you can stop it- you can't. You can delay it, but even if you beat cancer, you're going to die in a car crash- or of heart failure- or during a random mugging- or quietly in your sleep at 100 years old. Shift your focus from how you die and put it back where it belongs- on how you are living. Not to be campy, but Lincoln had a great quote, "In the end, it's not the years of your life that count, it's the life of your years."

Woefully Inept · Aug 28, 2015

In 2002 I was told I was going to die due to a blood clot and a tumor that was growing uncontrollably. Lemme tell you after receiving The Talk NOTHING fucking stresses me out. Well besides my computer blowing up. That shit stresses me out more than death does. It's fucking pathetic. lol

Oh and 207 today! BOOM! I do not remember the last time I was below 210. As far as I'm concerned I never was.

Srathor · Aug 28, 2015

Yep, everyone is gonna die. Just a matter of when and how, and if you drop a cloth cap or not. Right before I told the doc to go ahead with the first operation it struck me that this could be it, I might never wake up.

I said fuck it, I have had a good life, the people I love know it, I have had love and great sex, I have seen amazing things in the real world and many much more in the virtual world. I was and have been content for many years.

Then I woke up after the operation and that feeling has stuck with me, I am in a good mood every day, even seeing the fucking doctor. The first operation failed but the second worked and I feel better now more so than I have in the last 5 years, sure i am still in a broken down, fucked up, barely functional body. But I earned this shit, it is mine, and if I keel over any day now I am content.

Frenzied Wombat · Aug 28, 2015

Arden_sl said:
Everyone dies of cancer unless something else gets them first. It's not really a question of "if", it's a question of "when" and "where." What really turns people into carcinophobes aren't the stories of the people who die from cancer so much as the stories of people who find cancer early and manage to survive it. The doctor says "Soandso was lucky, he caught it early so we were able to eliminate it before it metastasized, etc, etc." Then we start thinking, well goddamn, I might get cancer, but I can probably survive it as long as I "catch it early." Then it turns us into these neurotic monsters trying to "beat cancer" by getting everything under the sun biopsied so we can catch the cancer early, until we have to switch to new doctors because our old doctors no longer take our concerns about cancer seriously enough. The whole time, our quality of life is severely suffering because instead of focusing on how we want to live, we are constantly worrying about how we are going to die.

I don't know if it would help you, but what helped me is simply accepting that I was going to die and possibly suffer doing it. Accepting my own mortality- and I meanreallyaccepting the inevitability of my own death- freed me from worrying so much about how it was going to happen and what I could do to stop it. In fact, I discovered that almost all the "phobias" and neurotic behaviors I was experiencing all turned out to simply be manifestations of my attempts to control my own mortality and prevent my own death. Those fears won't go away until you embrace the fact that, ultimately, youcan'tprevent it.

I'm not saying ignore your family history or neglect reasonable screenings. Making a reasonable effort to catch potential problems early is a good idea, just like it's a good idea to look both ways before crossing an intersection. No one wants to get cancer, just like no one wants to die in a car crash. What I'm saying is let go of the idea that you can stop it- you can't. You can delay it, but even if you beat cancer, you're going to die in a car crash- or of heart failure- or during a random mugging- or quietly in your sleep at 100 years old. Shift your focus from how you die and put it back where it belongs- on how you are living. Not to be campy, but Lincoln had a great quote, "In the end, it's not the years of your life that count, it's the life of your years."

Thanks, this is all good advice. To clarify I don't really fear death itself, I fear the slow torturous suffering that comes with a Cancer death. The memories of watching my mom (and the others) slowly waste away, crying in pain for weeks, listening to that hoarse rasp like death rattle with each breath they drew.. The senile ranting that comes in the final week as the morphine levels block out all rational thought.. Those visions/memories just stick with you, and I fear being that person one day-- the ranting, rasping, 80lb cancer victim that shits himself and has to be carried to the toilet..

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