Pancreas Burnout - Re: need information

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Hi Heidi,

If you can find your file that has a more technical description on

pancreatitis burnout, I'd appreciate it if you could place it in the

" files " section of the group or share it. I'm getting close to

complete burnout of the pancreas or at least that's what the surgeons

said after I had a modified Whipple operation in May 2003. My

pancreas is completely calcified but they poke it a number of times

with a syringe needle and it bled so there's still some life yet. I'm

also a border-line diabetic and I've had a number of pseudocysts. I

noticed from some of the recent postings that some are opting for

surgery. I avoided surgery of three different pseudocysts over the

past 8 years. I guess I didn't avoid the surgery so much as surgery

wasn't pushed by my doctors during those periods. Every case is

different it seems.

Thanks,

Jim

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