is anyone familiar with this? 2 yrs ago my intestine ruptured from a major diverticulitis infection. When it ruptured it also infected 2 other parts of my intestines as well as my pelvic organs and my lower abdomen. I have had several surgeries since and just recently in the past few months have been having more good days than bad. I have lost 45 pounds and every time i get sick i lose about 10 more. My intestines are sooo sensitive that i have to be soo careful of what i eat and often have to stay on a liquid(boost) diet. i take meds consistently to calm pain and burning but on bad days the meds don't touch it. My drs have no treatment, i have taken antibiotics and that is the most they can do. I was told that this is normally life threatening and when i was really sick, i could see that! but now that i am slowly healing, get acupuncture every week, natural therapies as well as ultram, klonopin as needed for burning and flexiril as needed for muscle spasms. does anyone know if the pain from this will go away ever? I have gone to my gyno and in the next yr plan on having a hysterectomy due to the organs being soo infected and 'dead' due to the rupture. I think that once there is more room and those organs are not there it will help, but this is no way to function, taking meds around the clock and no appetite, marinol doesn't even give me an appetite and then going!! woah! Pain before, during and after and even worse if the food was at all risky(spicey, greasy, fiberous) I cannot seem to find anyone who has gone through this and have no clue how long this will take to heal. at this point my dr states i have chronic pain due to peritonitis, no other info....
I'm thinking on it. I don't have the answers that you are looking for, but I do have empathy and some basic knowledge of what you are going through. My Grandmother suffered from diverticulitis for years and years, I think what you have that she didn't have was an open mind to alternative medicine and diets! So I'm thinking that you may have a way to go in healing, but you are on the right path! I encourage you to join a support group of chronic pain sufferers. I know that Irritable Bowel Syndrome isn't the same thing, but someone in a support group for IBS, may be able to shed light on this. Point a way in the right direction, offer useful advice? Counseling therapy to cope with chronic pain and the impact on your life that this is having is also something that I recommend. Another thing that occurred to me is maybe juicing (strained of fiber?) may be more vital, nutritionally available food source than processed canned boost? A holistic practitioner specializing in diet? Superfoods like spirulina? Or would that be too fibrous? I'm not sure. I am hoping to be the type of person that could point you in the right direction, but I'm not qualified ...yet. I'm lighting a candle for you. I'm hoping for a good healing your way Lunadaze!
Yeah vegetable juices might help build you up. You'd need a vegie juicer. Sometimes you can pick them up cheap at a yard sale or goodwill like an Oster. I think carrot juice mixed with summer squash, maybe some celery would be good. You might look into edible clay therapies. Also cooked vegie broths, oatmeal, barley flakes from a health food store, tofu, cooked millet, quinoi, buckwheat groats. Slippery elm powder is a very soothing herb for the intestines. Peppermint and chamomile are good for cramps and spasms.
well the I would have to say that some of those things list would not suit at all, too much residue (fiber, and reactive fiber at that) Rice is the least reactive. Aloe Vera is sold by the gallon in the health food store, and it's an anti-inflammatory that people consume for intestinal inflammation. But peritonitis suggests that you have leaky-gut syndrome? Yeast (Candida) I know can perforate the gut. I've heard of hydrogen peroxide therapy and chelation therapy as helping such problems.
