to Heidi

[Guest guest]

Thanks so much for the encouragement. I am not usually shy and have a

hard time with giving up control, so I was tired of letting the GI

doc have it.

Here's something interesting I found out. My sister-in-law, wound

specialist, bumped into a pancreas doctor at the VA hospital in

Durham. Dr. said it is possible I still have a gallstone stuck

in the pancreatic duct or I may have hereditary pancreatitis. My

sister-in-law told her about my dad dying of pancreatic cancer and

brother being hospitalized with acute pancreatitis. When I first

heard about CP, my entire life made sense. I've always been the type

who gets bad stomache aches and would throw up all the time. I've had

the pain in my stomach, like I have now, more than 20 years ago. I

never thought anything about it then. I thought it was my tight

jeans!

Did you talk to the attorney about your disability case? If so, what

happened?

Tammy

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If this appears twice, I apologize. For some reason the first post

didn't show up.

I don't have psedocysts, but my pain is at the most severe in the

late afternoon to early evening. I usually have lunch around noon and

dinner at 4:30 p.m., so I figure by this time my pancreas has been

working for four hours and is beginning to get sore.

Since I've been home, I usually take two hydrocodone at noon whether

I'm hurting or not. This usually helps with the severity of the pain.

When I was working and the pain wasn't too bad, I would wait to take

pain medication until I got home at 11 p.m. I usually needed it by

that point. The pain would build to a cresendo ending when I took

some percocet. The pain always was the worst from 4:30 p.m. until 11

p.m. If it was too bad at work, I usually took a motrin to help ease

it off.

Occasionally, about 15 percent of the time, I wake up in the morning

with severe pain. When this happens I know it's going to be a very

bad day. Hope this helps, Heidi. Tammy