Re: Angie from W

[Guest guest]

,

I had an open sphincteroplasty. I have pancreas divisum so I had major and

minor ducts opened, as well as my bile duct which had closed off also. Dr.

Adam's did my surgery in ton, SC

I understand completely what you mean about new docs. So many of them are

clueless about our illness. I hate having them look at me like a druggie who is

an idiot! But then again, if my doc hadn't sent me to ton I would have

been suffering like I was several months ago for who knows how long. The docs

there are wonderful and very knowledgeable about our illness. They also know

about gastric bypass and how that changes the treatments of the disease

greatly. Our diet is so different from the normal patient. Also, I am a diabetic

now

so that complicates things further as far as diets go.

I am going to a new doc Thursday. I have never been to a pain doc before but

I am going Thursday. I am nervous about it since I am not sure how much she

knows in dealing with cp.

How have the blocks worked for you? I haven't been offered that option yet

and it scares me to let anyone local do it. I would go to ton for that.

The docs around here just don't have enough knowledge of the disease.

Let me know what happens!

Angie in SC

" 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]

Angie,

thanks for letting me know you also had a gastric bypass. What type of

pancreas surgery did you? Who did the surgery?

My GI/Hep is finally back from vacation and I saw him today. He thinks that

I may be having a flare-up of my liver disease (autoimmune hepatitis) and

that's caused my increased pain, nausea, etc. He wants me taking 10 meq of

potassium three times a day because my potassium was only 2.8 when I went to

the ER Friday night. I told him it's pretty hard to keep my meds down when

I am having increased pain and nausea. He told me he's thinking about

sending me to doctor at UAB in Birmingham, AL (100 miles south). He said

that I might get a lot better pain relief by having the celiac plexus block

'from the inside' instead of through the back like my pain doc does. I

can't remember if he said the UAB doc would do it endoscopically or

surgically. I'm not really sure how far they'd have to go endoscopically to

do the celiac plexus block but I wonder if they could get far enough to do

it on me since I've had the gastric bypass.

I see my pain doc next week and my GI wants me to talk to the pain doc about

different options for controlling my pain better and to see what he thinks

about sending me to the doc at UAB. I am somewhat apprehensive about going

to a new doctor because I've had bad experiences with just about every new

doctor I've been sent to since being diagnosed with cp.

W