# Health Issue, and yes, I've seen a doctor

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-issue-and-yes-ive-seen-a-doctor/1032135>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [August 4, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-issue-and-yes-ive-seen-a-doctor/1032135 "2026-08-04T11:19:17Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-issue-and-yes-ive-seen-a-doctor/1032135/21 "2026-08-25T18:12:30Z")

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Diverticulitis can cause many of those symptoms- pain, loss of appetite (that also comes from getting older), and more.

I am not a Real Doctor.

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-issue-and-yes-ive-seen-a-doctor/1032135/22 "2026-08-25T19:18:42Z")

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No.

But I’ve been a little better since I got over that intense, but short virus or whatever it was, albeit, the day and day after I had to put my dog down were bad-- really didn’t eat anything.

So I think it’s just a combination of some unknown, stealth virus, and stress.

But the main worry was a recurrence of my volvulus, and that is not the case. So, not apparently any kind of emergency. And if I lose ten lbs over it, that won’t hurt me. I didn’t start out exactly undernourished.

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-issue-and-yes-ive-seen-a-doctor/1032135/23 "2026-08-25T19:27:37Z")

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Thanks for the update and glad it has improved! Still going to get the endoscopy or not?

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**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-issue-and-yes-ive-seen-a-doctor/1032135/24 "2026-08-25T19:53:20Z")

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> [@DSeid](#):
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> Done yet?
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> Any information?

They snipped a few polyps from my stomach, but that has happened before. Biopsied one, nothing. They even could just be a side effect of acid-reducing meds I take, apparently, and I’d be way more at risk for bad outcomes if I weren’t taking the meds, and popping Rolaids, or even famotidine.

All negative on the Pap test, too.

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**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2026, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/health-issue-and-yes-ive-seen-a-doctor/1032135/25 "2026-08-25T20:02:45Z")

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Perfect. Thanks.

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