To Walt: Re: Gaining weight with panc

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Hi Walt: I read your post with great interest because I, too, have

put on a good 35 lbs or so since about January of this yr. It doesn't

have anything to do with the Creon/Lipram because until just recently

(like w/in the past 2 wks) I wasn't taking them as I didn't think they

did much of anything way back in the beginning of this illness. They

DO seem to help now though so I'm taking them again.

Also, I find it interesting that they give you 30 mgs of Methadone 3x

per day. They just recently upped mine from 5 mgs 4x a day to 10 mgs

4x per day. I'm also on the Fentanyl Patch 125mcgs every 24 hrs. I

get Percocet for BT but I absolutely hate the stuff and I think it

contributes greatly to increased nausea so I avoid it like the plague.

How do they tell if you have a pseudocyst? I'm assuming from visual

testing, i.e., CT scan or MRCP but what if it's say on the back side

of the pancreas? Would they be able to see it then? And does that

cause " different " pain than the day to day panc pain? The reason I ask

is this: For roughly a month now or a bit over, I get this feeling

like there is someone pouring battery acid all over my middle (under

the ribs) and it goes all the way around the back up into my shoulder

blades. This is a different pain than the day to day panc pain I have

been having since Feb 04. My skin actually gets hot and I've told my

husband on numerous occasions that he could probably fry an egg on my

stomach if he wanted to. Is that the way a pseudocyst feels?

Thanks

> I went from 117lbs in may of 2002 to recently 160lbs. I have actually

> gained weight since the first of this year. It seams that as soon as

I

> became diabetic in 2004 and along with the creon/lipram I gained 15

> lbs. Yet, my liver panels came back bad also during this time, then

> evened out once they dialated my billary ducts by the billary tree of

> my liver. I am now gaining weight again. I hope my blood work comes

> back OK in November. Because they can no longer dialate the bile

duct.

> As it is the small intestine that they used to reconstruct things

> after they removed the choledochal cyst that consumed the bile duct

> and gall bladder. My CP pain is manageable with methedone 30mgX3 a

day

> and percocet for breakthru.

>

> Walt

>

> PS I really don't like all of this weight gain.