My grandfather had the same symptoms. He had diverticulitis.
. The most common symptoms of diverticular disease include abdominal cramping, constipation, diarrhea and bloating. These symptoms are related to difficulty of passing stool along the left colon narrowed by diverticular disease.
More serious complications include diverticulitis, collection of pus (abscess) in the pelvis, colon obstruction, generalized infection of the abdominal cavity (bacterial peritonitis), and bleeding in the colon.
Diverticular bleeding occurs when stool erodes into a blood vessel at the base of a diverticulum. Rectal passage of red, dark or maroon-colored blood and clots occur without any associated abdominal pain.
Bleeding may be continuous or intermittent, lasting several days.
Make an appointment with a GI specialist. He was only diagnosed after seeing the third specialist.
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