I started having lower left quadrant pain on Sunday and was diagnosed with diverticulitis yesterday.

I have been banded since April 7. Including my preop, I have now lost 49.8 pounds. I have been doing really well with my food choices and eat lots of veggies steamed and raw, and add Benefiber every day to my diet. I have definitely increased my Fiber intake.

I had this nagging little pain in that spot over a year ago, but it got better. Then last week, I had a bug with fever, stomach cramps. nausea, and lots of diahrrea. I was fine by Friday. Sunday this severe pain hit and I had a CT scan yesterday, confirming diverticulitis.

Now I am on two antibiotics and a liquid diet for 10 days!

My questions are:

Does diverticulitis have any relationship to Lab

Banding?

I thought increasing my fiber and eating healthier

was a positive thing for intestinal health. Did

increasing my fiber intake make it worse?

Did the flu bug cause the inflamation?

I have never seen anthing about diverticulitis on here, so if anyone has any info, I would love to know.

I have a constant pain on my left side and have been in the ER for it twice but I keep getting the "we can't find anything" speech. So?????? I guess I better do some investigating on this diverticulitis?

My pain was intermittent, worse when my bowels or bladder were full, better when I emptied them, and tender to the touch.

I had a CT scan which sowed a diverticulae which is a small pouch off the intestine that can trap food and get inflamed.