Re: Recovering From Surgery back to Rhonda

[Guest guest]

Rhonda,

I just had surgery on the 9th. Right after yours and it has been rough! My

doc said the pancreas doesn't like to be messed with and that it takes a while

before it settles down. I am getting some better and the pain is getting more

tolerable. I do believe I will always have pain though. Mine is just going to

be chronic and with me until they remove my pancreas! I was hoping after this

surgery I would have no more pain but alas, I am out of luck! I do have

reduced nausea and vomiting. I had a open sphincteroplasty. I have pancreas

divisum. I have only thrown up really badly 2 days after my surgery. So that is

MUCH

better! I was having vomiting episodes about 2-3 times a week. So I do have

something positive from the surgery and the pain is not as bad as it was before,

it is more like it was when I was first diagnosed.

I hope you are feeling better and that the pain lessens every day. I just

wanted you to know you aren't alone!

Take care,

Angie in S C

" The happiest of people don't necessarily have the

best of everything; they just make the best of everything that comes along

their way. "

[Guest guest]

Wow alot of you are alot worse off than I. I have never vomited with my

pancreatitis. Even when my lipase was elevated to 8,000 & I was hospitalized I

never vomited. I did have alot of diahrrea though. God bless all of you.

K

NOTOFARMS2@... wrote:

Rhonda,

I just had surgery on the 9th. Right after yours and it has been rough! My

doc said the pancreas doesn't like to be messed with and that it takes a while

before it settles down. I am getting some better and the pain is getting more

tolerable. I do believe I will always have pain though. Mine is just going to

be chronic and with me until they remove my pancreas! I was hoping after this

surgery I would have no more pain but alas, I am out of luck! I do have

reduced nausea and vomiting. I had a open sphincteroplasty. I have pancreas

divisum. I have only thrown up really badly 2 days after my surgery. So that is

MUCH

better! I was having vomiting episodes about 2-3 times a week. So I do have

something positive from the surgery and the pain is not as bad as it was before,

it is more like it was when I was first diagnosed.

I hope you are feeling better and that the pain lessens every day. I just

wanted you to know you aren't alone!

Take care,

Angie in S C

" The happiest of people don't necessarily have the

best of everything; they just make the best of everything that comes along

their way. "