EUS/ERCP

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I'm going against my GI doctor's wishes and getting the ERCP done,

which was the recommendation from Dr. Pappas at Duke. Technically, my

GI doctor doesn't know that I'm having the ERCP done. I planned to

tell him that I went ahead with the procedure after it was done. I

know it sounds like I'm going behind his back, but quite frankly, the

GI doctor has drug his feet on this. I need to have more information

than a tentative diagnosis, and I really don't have the strength to

argue with him. My GI doctor wouldn't return my phone calls for two

weeks, and after his nurse said I needed to have patience, I took

matters into my own hands. He did not call me about needing more pain

medication or anything. He did not return my phone calls until the

receptionist told him I was in the office to pick up my records and

on the way to Duke. Another week had also passed without hearing from

the pain specialist that I was trying to get into to see.

Right now, my general condition is worsening. I am very weak, and the

pain is excrutiating without pain pills. I run a low-grade fever

every day, have the chills and severe nausea.

Myabe this isn't the way I should handle it, and I know doctors know

more than I, but I feel like the GI doctor is just winging it. Tammy