Docs not doing both amylase & lipase bloodwork

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Hi there,

I went to the hospital where I usually go to when I have a

pancreatitis attack to have blood drawn to check my PT/INR..i am on

blood thinners due to a large blood clot in my jugular...and I had

heard previously from my local doctor's lab that they have to send

my bloodwork to another hospital to get my lipase tested as they

don't have the agents available to test the lipase levels.

I asked the lab technician while the nurse was drawing my blood, if

that included the bloodwork taken when I go to the ER. Because they

always tell me that my bloodwork comes back normal, even though I

have pain and then they send me home...This I have dealt with by

carrying a letter and other doctors helping me by asking to be

contacted...

What peeves me is that they are assuming that because my amylase are

normal, that my lipase are also (this is what the nurse mentioned

when I asked about the bloodwork in the ER). So.....if I ever go

there again, I shall suggest they send the bloodwork to the other

hospital to be done and not to discharge me until they get those

back also because my amylase rarely rise anymore, but my lipase

always do.

I also found that a couple of doctors at another hospital have sent

me home telling me that my bloodwork came back normal, so I musn't

have pancreatitis (mentioned in previous posts), only to find that

in medical records I had copied and sent to me, my lipase and/or

amylase were above normal. They might have not been elevated above

1000, but around 600 I thought was the borderline to be admitted for

lipase, or at least asked if I wanted to go home or be admitted.

It's just the being told that everything is normal, and making me

feel as if they think i'm just after pain meds that gets me, when

there was proof that I wasn't making it up...

At least now I have proof, and shall mention that if the need arises

again.

Bye for now,