SOD

[Guest guest]

I don't have any GI Drs anymore. They can't help me. They gave up on

me along time ago. I only see PMD. I have seen Stuart Sherman and

Glen Lehman and they have nothing to offer me. I have an annular

pancreas with pancreatic divisum and SOD. I only found out the SOD

had grown back because I had an MRCP about a year ago and they said

I was full of stones ( the mrcp was for possible pancrectomy) went

and had ercp (not one stone found) but SOD had grown back. Surgeon

didn't want to do anything said I had been sick too long and it

wouldn't help. Sorry there is no one to ask.

Atwell LPN

[Guest guest]

I had my sphincter of oddi removed sugically exactly one year ago.

I can assure you I know the differences in the pain I have now-v-

sod. One thing I do want to add is that when the sphincter is cut

it an heal and add scar tissue, sometime. A sphincter is just the

name for a round muscle. We have lots and lots of sphincter

muscles; around each eye, and of course the rectal muscle is a

sphincter too. The stents are often placed aftr an ERCP in order to

maintain patiency until the cutting (sphincterotomy) or by balloon

dilation can heal.

One of the best indicators as to whether or not you body is

excreting the enymes would be consistancy and color of ones stools.

Unexplained weight loss is also but may take several monthns before

it can be clinically proven. The profound weakness that comes with

poor nutrition can be disabling at time. That is why it is so

important to make sure that what you eat has the highest nutritional

value available that you can tolerate.

I would eat just about ever 2-4 hours when I worked just to allow me

the energy I needed to take care of all my patients. When I found

that I was unable to perform my duties to a standard that I set for

myself, I resigned, broke my heart.

Oh also, the tissue at the head of the pancreas where the duct of

santorri (sp?) meets the sphincter of oddi that can become swollen

and by being so swollen it can place pressure on or around the

sphincter muscle itself.

Doctors have been prescribing nitrodur, procardia, cardizem and the

others for a long time. It is theorized that these particular type

of drugs, calcium channel blockers, relaxes the smooth muscles in

the body. The sphincter of oddi being one, and it even relaxes the

muscles found within the whole body as well the muscles that within

the are veins and arteries. Which is why we get the headaches

Hope this helps somebody; sometimes I get on here after taking my

meds and sound like a complete idiot.

Warmly,

Chrissy