Sorry For This Long Story But You Guys Are All I Have - Please Help!!

[Guest guest]

et al,

Are there any magic words to get the doctor to listen? My PCP is

totally upbeat about the Whipple. She says ALL her patients have

done fantastically. I wanted to ask if ALL her patients are retired

and get to stay home. There is a huge difference between a retired

person and those of us with very high stress jobs. Yeah, I could go

play mahjong with Myrtle but I could not write a multi dimensional

array process.

I have to face the 'what if' scenario. What does one do or say to

get through? Geez! I feel so awful for you! Trying to do fiscal

stuff and feeling like this must be just plain spiffy.

I have a horror of being told I am just fine and should go back to

work and then getting fired for non-performance. Gads.

Suggestions and stories…please!

Carol

[Guest guest]

,

Can you ask Dr Lehman to write a note to your boss, explaining that

you will probably need multiple treatments, if it indeed does help?

At least you will know that you are seeing a sympathetic,

understanding and knowledgeable doctor regarding your pancreatitis

this time.

[Guest guest]

Dear ,

My Gosh!!! You have certainly been through the ringer this year!!!

Your attacks do sound like SOD. Mine can start in a second and stop

in a second too. The pain is horrific and one never knows when it

will let up. Mine used to last 4-5 hours at a time, I literally

thought I was going to die from the pain or lack of breathing

ability. Very scarry stuff!!! If you go ahead and have the ERCP

there is a chance that you will not feel very good for 4-6 weeks.

Everytime I had an ERCP and sphincterotomy, I was down with pain and

illness for approximately 4-6 weeks. I once read on a medical site

that I should treat myself just like I had any other type of surgery

and allow 4-6 weeks for healing. The best advise I ever had. Even

though the cut is tiny from the sphincterotomy, it certainly can

pack a punch. I hope you are feeling better today. Take it easy

with the patches (lol). That was scarry stuff too!!! I haven't

tried the pain patches but I am going to ask Dr. Lehman about them

when I go see him next. You can always ask him to write you a note

to be off from work for a couple of months. He certainly knows

first hand what us patients go through and he is very

understanding.

Take care

Kris in TN

[Guest guest]

Thanks ...yes, I will ask Dr. Lehman to do that. Esp,

since I 'm not currently under the care of a GI doc locally. At

least that would be something to keep the wolves away from my door

as it were. I'm also hoping that he can " educate " my mother as well

while she's there. I just hope she doesn't get too bossy w/him as

she's known to do. I fully expect her to say something like " You

need to fix her problem, she MUST return to work; her family's life

is on the line here. " OMG!! I'll just die of embarrassment if she

does that, Well gotta run and get my son off to daycare...I'll

check back later.

thanks , as always

> ,

>

> Can you ask Dr Lehman to write a note to your boss, explaining

that

> you will probably need multiple treatments, if it indeed does help?

>

> At least you will know that you are seeing a sympathetic,

> understanding and knowledgeable doctor regarding your pancreatitis

> this time.

>

>

[Guest guest]

Thanks Kris...that is exactly what I plan on doing. If I'm deemed

able to work at all then I will certainly tell him what my job is

all about and that it would be much, much easier to return at say

the end of October when all of this closing the /Fy04 books are over

and done with!! I feel much better today than I did yesterday and

I'm convinced that I had sort of an overdose....how stupid can I

be? I was so in need of pain relief but I should have waited for

the 25/50 patches to wear off on the 3rd day and then apply the

100mcg one!! Duh!!! When you saw Dr. Lehman, did he cut any of the

ducts - I think I saw that he did. For how long did you get

complete pain relief after that? I'm very interested in knowing

that because that is going to determine whether or not I will be

able to return to work. Actually, any info you can give me on the

ERCP w/Dr. Lehman would be great. If you'd prefer you can write me

off-line at she_remembers@... I'd really like to know details

since I'm going to see him next week....things like did you have an

acute attack because of the ERCP? Once he dx's you..will he give

you a copy of the dx so that you can show your work and PCP and

anyone else that might need to know? How does he determine whether

or not he's going to do the ERCP? Based on symptoms alone? Stuff

like that....

thanks in advance

Dear ,

> My Gosh!!! You have certainly been through the ringer this

year!!!

> Your attacks do sound like SOD. Mine can start in a second and

stop

> in a second too. The pain is horrific and one never knows when it

> will let up. Mine used to last 4-5 hours at a time, I literally

> thought I was going to die from the pain or lack of breathing

> ability. Very scarry stuff!!! If you go ahead and have the ERCP

> there is a chance that you will not feel very good for 4-6 weeks.

> Everytime I had an ERCP and sphincterotomy, I was down with pain

and

> illness for approximately 4-6 weeks. I once read on a medical

site

> that I should treat myself just like I had any other type of

surgery

> and allow 4-6 weeks for healing. The best advise I ever had. Even

> though the cut is tiny from the sphincterotomy, it certainly can

> pack a punch. I hope you are feeling better today. Take it easy

> with the patches (lol). That was scarry stuff too!!! I haven't

> tried the pain patches but I am going to ask Dr. Lehman about them

> when I go see him next. You can always ask him to write you a

note

> to be off from work for a couple of months. He certainly knows

> first hand what us patients go through and he is very

> understanding.

> Take care

> Kris in TN