TO: Joze

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I keep forgetting things but the things I am going to list are

things that have " kicked " off my pancreas and caused me unmeasurable

pain, suffering and hospitalizations. If a doctor says that these

things don't cause a flair in a sensitive pancreas he is nuts!

1. " mycin " drugs in my cause Zithromax (the " Z-pak " ), Dynabec which

I think is dirithromycin. I almost died from both of those before I

looked it up and informed the docs!

2. Cigarette smoke costed me about two months in the hospital.

That is just my pancreas.

3. STRESS! If the stress piles, even if you don't think you are

stressed, it can show in your pancreas. Two years ago in August 02

we found out my brother in law had cancer, the same week I lost a

good friend suddenly, my mom had a bleeding ulcer the next week and

by the next week I was in the hospital! I stayed out until June of

this year. I was admitted the first time June 3, my brother in law

was dying and died while I was in the hospital. I did not get to

his funeral which was 700 miles away but checked out like and idiot

and made my hubby go. As it was, he was there when I got sick adn

drove all night to get back here. A month later I was in with the

worst attack of my life with lungs full of fluid, an abdomen full of

fluid and hemorrhagic gastritis which caused my hemoglobin to drop 5

points overnight and warnings by the docs that they might not be

able to take care of this. They don't know it all and after 13 days

I went home. Two more 6 day stays after that and I went to

ton making it 5 in 4 months. STRESS, STRESS, STRESS, STRESS!

4. Alcohol. I have never drank, but there is alcohol in so many

things that can hurt you. This sounds wacky but it is the Gods

truth. I had a tooth ache a couple years ago, on a weekend, of

course and no meds to treat it with. So I decided to treat it with

vanilla out of the bottle, you know alcohol in the vanilla to calm

the pain. Within 10 minuts I was in the floor with an S.O.D.

spasm. That goes for drugs like Nyquil, mouthwashes that contain

alcohol and all the rest.

5. SOD spasms. Before they had diagnosed the S.O.D. spams, they

came up with this big idea if I would loose weight the " irritable

bowel syndrome " would go away. I went on a diet, lost 55 pounds and

had an S.O.D. spasm from hell one night, " irritable bowel you know "

and they took me out in an ambulance. I figured I had an aneurysm

or something that blew and I was goner. By the time I got to the

hospital the pain was gone as usual. So much for losing weight to

cure anything! The neighbor across the street was in my yard as the

ambulance was taking me out and told my son that the " damn diet I

was on was killing me " ! I laugh about it now but my son told him to

take it back across the street and a few other things I am sure!

There is no rhyme or reason to S.O.D. or the things that trigger a

pancreas attack. It is learned only by experience. The docs know

what is in the textbooks, but a good doc will ask what you think.

Dr. Cotton's first words every time I go are what do you think and I

tell him and I havent been wrong yet!

We all know how our bodies react to things and a good doc knows that.

I will get off my band wagon for now!

Kaye.........NC