Re: Re: New pseudocyst and question -Heidi

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Heidi,

The location of my pseudocyts are no where near my stomach and they say that

they can only drain in when they are near the stomach. If they tried to do

anything but aspirate the one that I had I would have problems with fisuals

forming (I am not sure if I am spelling that right I was in a great deal of

pain when the radiologist was explaining this to me).

I've actually been told that once you have had one pseudocyst aspirated that

you have a 50% chance of it returning and if it does return it will probably

be bigger. That is very dangerous because I think that I have been told

that any pseudocyst over 5cm is considered dangerous and at 10 cm they have

to act immediatly (when I first got pancreatitis I had a 14 cm pseudocyst

that required external drains, and stenting).

The doctor has mentioned tho that if the pseudocyst keeps reocurring at this

rate (it went from being drained and having nothing left to being 10cm in

less then 2 months ) then they are going to have to consider some kind of

surgery but they are not sure what they would do. I hate that the doctors

never have definite answers for me - it is ALWAYS a maybe.

-a