Not pancreatitis after all?...more info

[Guest guest]

Thanks for the responses that you have given me. They are

helpful. But to help my psyche I need to get an understanding of

why a doctor would say this, given that he is practicing good

medicine. I mean, I understand from all of you guys that

pancreas problems are about the hardest thing to diagnosis and

treat, etc. If he is truly a sincere and competent doctor (which I

think he is) how can a good doctor change his mind like this?

Did he find out something that he is not telling me about? Is it

just that this is such a speculative field and when a patient

doesn't respond as expected then the patient is a fraud? I guess

I am trying to understand this from a personal health point of

view.....it is like being told that you had a massive heart attack

then two months later the doctor coming back and saying " " oh

never mind, I was wrong, your heart is healthy as a horse unless

the bypass surgery I did goes wrong " . You know what I mean?

In your experiences out there, is this a typical situation? To have

the same doctor be so adament that you have chronic

obstructuve pancreatitis (a textbook case, so to say) and then six

months later say " oh I was wrong you don't even have any

pancreas problem at all " ? It isn't even a different doctor doing

this...if it was, I could at least understand it as a difference of

opinion. This is so out of my realm of experience that I cannot

explain it at all.....

Laurie