Re : Hysterectomy and Pancreatitis

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Hello Jean,

I have had CP all my life although, when I was younger, I used to

have long periods of time in between attacks. I am 58 now.

I don't know if this will help. When I was 32 I had major surgery to

repair damage caused during the birth of my second son. It was a

major repair and I was in hospital for the same time as women

undergoing a hysterectomy. I chose a repair rather than a

hysterectomy at the time, not because the hysterectomy would have

been worse surgery (the doc said it would not have been) but because

I might have had further pregnancies. The operation did not have an

effect on my pancreatitis. In other words, it did not trigger an

attack. The CP attacks (I didn't know at the time that that was what

they were) came and went as usual but I didn't have one around the

time of that operation. I did, as it happens, have a very bad attack

very early on in that pregnancy but not when I was pregnant with my

first son.

Obviously this is a very different case from your daughter's, from a

number of points of view, but I don't think surgery for something

else will necessarily have a bad effect on the CP. Indeed, possibly

it will make her feel better overall once she recovers from the

present problem and the operation itself.

I hope that's the case anyway. I do sympathise. As Shirley says, we

always have things to worry about with our children.

With very good wishes,

Fliss (UK)