can someone explain being allergic to gluten Now Meckel's Diverticulitis

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, pdw <pdworkman wrote:

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> Very interesting. I have a genetic disorder in which defects in a

> number of organs are more common. Searching this one and my disorder

> turns up tons of hits. Tell me, how did you come to be diagnosed?

>

>Pam

 

Pam, my sister was diagnosed first, about three years before me. She actually

was bleeding internally, and lost a lot of blood through her stool. She had to

have a blood transfusion of about 4 pints of blood. When they got her

stabilized, her doctor did exploratory surgery to find out what was wrong, as

all of the tests they did turned up nothing. When they got in there is when they

found her Meckel's Diverticulitis. She was 21 years old. So, when I was having

the same symptoms she had, only not quite as severe, and no rectal bleeding for

me, I went to the same doctor that she had gone to. They did a proctoscope exam

(I think that is what it is called, I know it hurt a LOT! ) That is how they

found mine.

 

The surgery I had was not fun, it involved removing 6 feet of intestine plus the

diverticulum, I was in the hospital for 9 days, and it took me 12 weeks to

recover enough to go back to work. But, I no longer have the pain I used to have

whenever I ate something that aggravted the Meckel's

 

My doctor explained that it is something " sort of like an appendix " that

everyone has before birth, and in most people it disappears shortly after you

are born. In a few people it does not go away on it's own, and can act just like

regular diverticuli, which are " pockets " that form on your intestine. Food gets

trapped in it, and ferments, which causes the pain, and can eventually lead to

it becoming ulcerated, which is what happened to my sister. If it ruptures, it

can lead to peritonitis which can kill you.

 

I hope this explains it well enough.

 

Karen in Arizona