u/Efficient_Judge9910

Since 5 a.m. this morning, I’ve been suffering from another flare-up of diverticulitis. My pain is around a 6–7 out of 10, with 10 being the worst. On another occasion, it reached a 9, and I had to be hospitalized and receive antibiotics. Fortunately, my partner is home today, and if things get worse, he’ll drive me to the hospital.

What scares me, though, is leaving the hospital with another week of antibiotics. I’ve just finished a course of antibiotics for something unrelated (a tick bite), and they caused a whole set of other issues.

Do you go to the hospital every time you have a flare-up, or do you usually stay home and wait for it to go away on its own?