Are labs usually able to predict attacks? to Jeanette

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Jeanette,

Can I add that my specialist says that he isn't concerned with how high the

numbers are or aren't. He treats the symptoms, not the numbers. I have had a 10

days hospital stay where my A & L numbers werren't all that high and a 5 day

stay where they were, what I thought to be high until talking to others on this

board, very high.

And after you have gone chronic, there is a point to where your A & L levels

won't raise anymore, just like says. I haven't hit that point yet.

Hope that also helps.

Sandy in Ca

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Jeanette I can only speak from my own personal experience here. But my

enzymes have never ever been elevated. Never. The have always been

low within normal limits or just low.

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> Jeanette,

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> Can I add that my specialist says that he isn't concerned with how

high the numbers are or aren't. He treats the symptoms, not the

numbers. I have had a 10 days hospital stay where my A & L numbers

werren't all that high and a 5 day stay where they were, what I

thought to be high until talking to others on this board, very high.

>

> And after you have gone chronic, there is a point to where your A &

L levels won't raise anymore, just like says. I haven't

hit that point yet.

>

> Hope that also helps.

>

> Sandy in Ca

Sandy,

Even when chronic, your amylase and lipase can still elevate...not

that they won't anymore, but they still can. Mine would sometimes

elevate, and sometimes not, but after I had a Whipple, they never

went down! They didn't go down until I had a CP/ICT....which was a

year and one week following the whipple. I had pancreatitis for 9

1/2 years. When they went in to do the CP/ICT, my pancreas was

fibrotic and sclerosed. I had what they call Small Duct Pancreatitis

as well as Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction.

Robin

(long time member, long time lurker ..)

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