Feeling stressed beyond belief! Was hospitalized last week with diverticulitis, severe rectal bleed came out of the blue! Got a CT scan with contrast and prescribed antibiotics. Was discharged and told by ER Dr that it was uncomplicated diverticulitis. Everything else looks fine.
However I then passed out at the pharmacy and they took me back to ER and I ended up admitted for 4 days for transfusion and IV antibiotics.
Anyway, I'll get to the point! I am seeing the GI Dr for a colonoscopy in 6 weeks. But meantime I read my CT scan and it mentioned "small associated pericolic lymph nodes". And Dr Google says they are much more likely to appear in colon cancer than in diverticulitis. I had no symptoms before the diver flare (I know I had diver thanks to previous scan) and had no reason to suspect anything nasty. Now I'm unable to sleep or eat.
But surely if it was a sign of cancer, they would not have discharged me from the ER? Surely the surgeon I saw in GI ward would have mentioned it? He was very nice and when I asked if there was anything suspicious in my scan he said no. But I wonder if they just say that till the colonoscopy?
Please can anyone help me?
