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Diverticulitis: Pain
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Diverticulitis can feel like appendicitis, except you'll generally have pain in the lower left side of your abdomen, instead of the lower right side. The pain is usually severe and comes on suddenly, but sometimes you may have mild pain that becomes worse over several days and fluctuates in intensity. You may ... have abdominal tenderness, fever, nausea, and constipation or diarrhea.
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It is common to have lower abdominal pain after recovering from an attack of diverticulitis. But this pain is not always a return of diverticulitis. Less than half of people ever have a second diverticulitis attack. Of those who do have another attack, about half have the second attack within 1 year of their first one.1
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10 percent to 25 percent of those with diverticulosis develop diverticulitis - inflammation of a diverticulum. That happens when the opening of the diverticulum becomes blocked with rock-hard stool. Blockage leads to inflammation. The inflamed diverticulum can burst, seal off and be quite painful.
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Ultrasonography can be a safe, helpful, noninvasive imaging modality to evaluate acute diverticulitis when CT-associated radiation exposure is not desired or contraindicated. Ultrasonography may ... be the imaging modality of choice when a female patient presents with pelvic pain, and the differential diagnosis includes a gynecologic process, such as an ectopic pregnancy or ovarian cysts.
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