Just diagnosed with tortuous colon | Mayo Clinic Connect I too have a torturous Showed up on my last 2 colonoscopies, 2021 and 2023 But been causing problems since August of 2022 I drink more water, try to walk at least a mile a day, (was very sedentary), and increase my fiber I too felt so uncomfortable after my evening meal, especially if I happened to eat more than normal
Tortuous colon. Surgery or not? | Mayo Clinic Connect My GI had me taking Mira lax and two citrucel caplets every day for more that a year when she ordered the study -- ordered because even though I have copious loose bowel movements every day, there is a trouble spot in that redundant, torturous transverse colon where some stool just lays there, so she calls it constipation
Tortuous aortic aneurysm | Mayo Clinic Connect Hi @hemth i am 43 I was diagnosed in 2019 with a tortuous aorta and I had a mid-descending aortic aneurysm as well as a very large left subclavian aneurysm
Severe Tortuous Redundant Colon | Mayo Clinic Connect As you know, a torturous colon can require emergency surgery Should you elect to get non-emergency surgery, you select the surgeon If you are in an emergency situation, you won't be able to select the surgeon Case in point: my brother shattered his elbow He had emergency surgery by a trauma doctor
Redundant Tortuous Colon Colonoscopy Prep Problems Then 2 laxatives and a gallon of Miralax the first day and then again the 2nd day I was cleaned out Due to the transverse colon revealed significantly excessive looping and a redundant colon the procedure was aborted Having a redundant torturous colon causes problems with a colonoscopy One of the risks is perforated bowel
Tortuous colon diagnosis and diarrhea for months? help A torturous redundant colon can cause diarrhea if your bowel get so full of stool that liquid stool is forced around the hard stool that cannot be passed This causes weight loss because you cannot eat when your G I tract is so full that’s what makes you feel so bloated and uncomfortable
Insight from a great GI doc - Mayo Clinic Connect I've had several unsuccessful colonoscopies for a torturous redundant colon I was asked to schedule another one and the time is approaching one year (April 2025) I need a doc who is skilled in advanced colonoscopy procedures-and preferably performs a high volume of them
Can Tortuous Colon cayse SI dysfunction chronic back pain? I too have a very long torturous colon and had a very large obstruction which sits very high up in the area above my splenic flexure are The obstruction which was recently blasted apart by compressed air whilst undergoing a colonoscopy
Anyone had bowel resection for redundant colon (volvulus)? Has anyone had a bowel resection for redundant colon? What was your experience? I have a very problematic and profoundly redundant, torturous transverse colon Over the last thirty years I've been hospitalized more times than I can recount for ulcerative colitis and diverticulitis, and I was recently hospitalized for a large volvulus