I just realized I posted this in the wrong forum. It should have gone here.

My friend has been suffering from this for months. Sometimes he's ok then bam! he gets a bout of aches, fever, chills & fatigue. He looks pretty bad sometimes. It took the doctor months to finally diagnose him with Diverticulitis. I don't see anything funny in that but maybe he does.

I should add that my friend was not diagnosed properly for some time because he didn't want to see a doctor. He thought he was being punished by his higher power for doing something really bad to someone else. Basically, he felt he deserved the terrible symptoms.