Thus, patients can receive prompt treatment for diverticulitis ... are the underlying cause of bowel habit changes, pain in the abdominal and pelvic regions, and intestinal obstruction.

At the age of 70, 70 percent of the population will have diverticulosis. However, this doesn’t mean that all of these ...

Having just come out of hospital after her first attack of diverticulitis ... These symptoms typically include bloating, pain in your bowel (usually in the lower left-hand quadrant above your ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2007;22(9):1360-1368. Our study has several limitations. The most important limitation is that the comparative studies we included in our review were not randomized ...

A woman described her battle with pain for the better part of 20 years — until an MRI scan finally revealed what was causing ...

Trauma and your pelvic floor are connected. Here's how trauma affects your pelvic floor, according to health experts.

They usually have many of the same symptoms. Many of the conditions, including IBS, diverticulitis, and IBD, can cause belly pain, cramps, diarrhea, constipation, or a mix of these symptoms.

After developing chronic pain, I started looking into what scientists do — and still don’t — understand about the disease. Here is what I learned. By Jennifer Kahn Most of us don’t think ...

I would have been bored, except the pain was so tiring that I could barely function. I spent the days shuffling around the house listening to audiobooks and doing voice-to-text searches for ...