Re: ?Too much pain for surgery?

[Guest guest]

I was told by a few GI's that if the person was having a

pancreatitis attack, it wasn't safe to have an ERCP whilst the

pancreas is inflamed.

Subsequently, when I was in hospital for an attack and needed

stenting, the doc ordered haldol & ativan by IV to control my severe

nausea and the ativan to relax my pancreas. It must have worked

because I don't remember much after getting the first doses of

those, and lost 2 days of when I was in hospital, but the day after

getting those medications, I had a stent placed, so it must have

settled the pancreas down enough.

I had to go to MD for an opinion on my tumours last year

and of course had a pancreatitis attack whilst I was there. They

admitted me straight away, and had me ready for an ERCP not long

after. I asked the question " don't you need to wait because it is

unsafe to perform a procedure on the pancreas when it is having an

attack? " and they told me that they deal with dangerous and

complicated situations there all the time, and with patients who

have pancreatic cancer, this is a common thing for the doctors.

I wonder if this could be what the doctors meant but didn't get

across in laymans terms..