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Low carb and Diverticular disease

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jayjay1963

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I was diagnosed as Type 2 in April 2012 and have been reading about LCHF for some time now. I was hoping to try this to gain better control of my BGs after a blip in my HBa1C numbers. However I was also diagnosed with Diverticular disease last Friday, and don't know whether it would now be advisable to try this as fat is a major trigger for my symptoms. Has anyone any experience of this combination of conditions and did they have a positive outcome?

Jacqui
 
I'll 'bump' this up the forum for you jayjay.
 
Hi Jayjay

I have diverticulitis which is the next stage after diverticular disease and found low carbing aggravated it quite badly – now what I am going to say is only MY experience – I posted about this once before and lots of others at the time disagreed with me – which is fine their experiences may be different

Back in June 2009 I was rushed into hospital in the middle of the night with severe stomach pains and vomiting and a high temp– I hadn’t been to the loo for over a week and had stopped passing wind. I was diagnosed with acute diverticulitus and had an infection with abscesses – I was in hospital for a week on all sorts of strong antibiotics and drips. I was also diagnosed with diabetes at the same time.

Came home had a handle on the diabetes straight away as dad is a well controlled T2 of 20 years –found this site and about 3 months later started low carbing about 50g carb a day – within a week my diverticulitus has flared up – stomach pain – not going to loo etc – went to docs and had another infection so more antibiotics – didn’t connect the two but felt so ill stopped the low carb – carried on on about 130g carb a day – then a few month later tried low carb again – same thing happened – saw the specialist – he wasn’t happy said this time if infection didn’t go would have to have op to remove some of my bowel! – Told him my diet and he wasn’t very pleased – not about the fat but the lack of complex carbs – had a app with him and DSN and came up eating about 25 – 30g of carb per meal – been fine since.

I don’t disagree that low carb is a very successful way of treating diabetes- others say that low carb stopped their bowel symptoms and helped their condition – I don’t doubt that either– but for me it didn’t work -you have to look at the whole picture and decide for yourself– I certainly don’t want to go through anything like that again so still keep my carbs at around 70 – 90g a day.

Maybe if you are worried you could do it very slowly by reducing your carbs over time so you give your body time to get used to it

Wow sorry for long post and if you read it to the end well done – didn’t mean to write so much – it just got longer and longer :lol: :lol:
 
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