hi i also was put on clindamycin for boils i had and a after my first perscription ran out i started my second and also had a pancreatic attack one week ago and i am not taking the clindamyacin any more.
I looked at the label on my bottle of Balsamic vinegar & threw it out - it contains red wine!
good keep it up
my attack was also at time of onset of period. Not a drinker, no gallstones
3 mild attacks of acute pancreatitis within 7 months. The last 2 attacks only 3 weeks apart. All 3 times was admitted to ER with pain in the upper adbdomen. Lipase around 1600-1700 and amalyse around 500-600. Fast recovery within 2-3 days and discharged each time without finding the root cause. Does not consume alcohol, no sign of any gallstones,cysts or clots (ultrasound and MRCP normal).
my GI spoke to an expert GI from UPMC (Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Center) and now I am scheduled to get my gall bladder removed. 4 weeks after the gall bladder surgery I will have to go to Pittsburgh (UPMC) for additional tests/procedures.
Has anyone had luck with removal of gall bladder (w.r.t. reduced/no further acute pancreatitis attacks) ?
my GI spoke to an expert GI from UPMC (Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Center) and now I am scheduled to get my gall bladder removed. 4 weeks after the gall bladder surgery I will have to go to Pittsburgh (UPMC) for additional tests/procedures.
Has anyone had luck with removal of gall bladder (w.r.t. reduced/no further acute pancreatitis attacks) ?
I had gall bladder surgery in 2003. I have had pain ever since. I finally, last month, after going to dctors, specialist for years, wass diagnosed with chronic acute pancreatitis. The docotrs followed all the routine procedures. Sent me home after an ercp. I was still in pain, couldn't eat, vomiting, etc. I went back t the hospital, and they found pancreatitis. For some reason they didn't look the week before at the CT scan and they would have seen it. I went back, and for 19 days of pure horror, and the story is too unbelieveable to tell, but they sent me to a place in the basement, no bathroom, no IV, no nurse, no button, no one there at all. I thought I had died. I finally saw a person and he said no one ever goes there. I believe they took me there to let me die, had not my husband made so much of a scream by calling everyong, the news stations, attorney generals, govermenr, to no avail, but my case manager came asking and they told her I wasn't there like they told everyone else. I didn't exist. I couldn't make any phone calls, no one could call me. I was transported to a different hospital and after 2 weeks I was allowed to call a girlfriend, so anyway, they told me my husband of 27 years threatened to shoot me with a gun, which is the mosy outrageous thing ever. He was trying to save me from these loons. Anyway, I am still very sick. I fooled the doctors in thinking I was better so I got hoem, so this week I can go to hospital that doesn't torture and lie to patients and treat them like a dead person. They failed to run 4 tests thanks to my administrative RN sister who flew in from Atlanta and she got that done. Now that I am out and can go to a real hospital, maybe I can survive. I haven't eaten in a month, yet the IV gave me nourishment. As far as a diet to help pancreatitis, nothing will work until they get control of the problem. The MAyo clinic, I hope to get to go to after this next hspital, specialize in this disease. 7 years of pain and suffering, facing death by hospital and disease. I have lost a lot of weight, which I do like, but am weak, can't eat nor drink, without much pain. Be very careful which hospital you go to. Check out not their public reputation, but use the web and reach all the blogs and threads you can find first. Hospitals have 100% control of your life, death, freedom, civil rights. I mean, even someone arrested gets to make a phone call. They have to power to kill you and make up any story they want. Whatever you do, be sure to kiss their you know whay royally so tey don't hurt or maybe kill you. Sorry to scare some of you. A person can live a month or 2 withour food, but water , 3 to 4 days, maybe a week, and you're dead. All your orgeans will shut down and you are dead. Liquid diet when you hurt. If you still hurt, get to the hospital and if possoble, the MAyo clinic. They actually try to save patients lives and from what I have found they treat you like a human being, not a lab rat or worse.
Ask the doctors, hospitals for a brochure for what you can eat or drink. Like me, it says drink fruit juice, but no sugar. Hello? You will have to use commone sense there. Hope I helped. I have suffered pancreatitis attacks for 7 years now and am just now at the beginning of what I hope to be a treatment to recovery. You know if you lose your pancreas you much take insulin injections everyday for the rest of your life, if it works. No booze, no food that taste good,. You will have to learn to eat to live, and forget about eating food you enjoy, That is over, unless you caught it at an early stage. But get the right hospital and go to the emergency room. Forget going to doctors, they don't have a clue.
Ask the doctors, hospitals for a brochure for what you can eat or drink. Like me, it says drink fruit juice, but no sugar. Hello? You will have to use commone sense there. Hope I helped. I have suffered pancreatitis attacks for 7 years now and am just now at the beginning of what I hope to be a treatment to recovery. You know if you lose your pancreas you much take insulin injections everyday for the rest of your life, if it works. No booze, no food that taste good,. You will have to learn to eat to live, and forget about eating food you enjoy, That is over, unless you caught it at an early stage. But get the right hospital and go to the emergency room. Forget going to doctors, they don't have a clue.
t take the vitimens of omnilife my husband had a bump on panras he took the vitamns take omnilfe for chivas he took it for 12 months
I just had an acute attack and ave been advised to stop drinking. At first I thought that it was an extreme concept, but after much research and consideration, I have quit. I can't comprehend choosing drinking over health?!!
AJ
AJ
I just had an acute attack and ave been advised to stop drinking. At first I thought that it was an extreme concept, but after much research and consideration, I have quit. I can't comprehend choosing drinking over health?!!
AJ
AJ
Seems that most every aspect of chronic/acute pancreatitis has been addressed on this blog site & it seems quite accurate and useful. So, here's my first post; though I'm a vet when it comes to the subject matter. Basically, it's the usual; submitted to ER w/acute pancreatitis over 4 yrs ago, wanted to shoot myself, went through battery of tests, and asked the million $ question: "have you ever drank alcohol to excess or felt that you could not make it through a day without drinking or ever been diagnosed by any medical professional as an alcoholic?" Answer yes and Ba-da-bing! Congratulations, you're now offically an "alcoholic." Just try getting that label off your medical records. It will follow you around for the rest of your life like a bad case of herpes. Not that you should lie to medical professionals trying to help you, but as those who post here can often attest, gastro docs look for what I call an "excuse hook" to hang their coats on. Whether it's inflated cardiomyopathy (an often terminal disease I inherited from my father) or anything else that alcohol can be a "potential" cause of, doctors who can't diagnose the real cause simply write your case off to drinking, and they are off the hook for coming up w/a more complete or accurate diagnosis and for being flat-out wrong. In other words, it's a quick way to do their jobs, without requiring the least bit of medical competence and NOBODY can prove them wrong. It's impossible to prove a negative, right??
So, after more hospitilazations than I can count, gallbladder removal, bladder cancer, etc., somebody finally got the brilliant idea to conduct an "MRCP" on me, which is basically an MRI for the pancreas. Turns out, I was born with "pancreas divisum" which is basically an abnormal configuration of the bile ducts that secrete the pancreatic enzymes into your digestive system for them to do their job. With divisum, the ducts can be undersized, strangulated, even virtually non-existent. Incidentally, the pancrease typically has 2-3 ducts. With divisum, one or more of these ducts can be affected. It also makes the ducts more susceptible to "stones," a condition that can come and go. As you probably know, the pain from pancreatitis is often the result of the pancreas swelling, inflamming the numerous, highly sensitive nerves wrapped around it. Many cities in the U.S. don't even have surgeons who operate on the pancreas. I live in the capitol city of my state, and not a single gastro doc in my entire state does pancreatic surgery. I must travel to Seattle, where there is an abundance. Sad truth, you must go to such a place unless you get lucky w/a truly great local doctor. Large city-gastro docs often have diagnostic and treatment techniques that can cure what your local docs deem "incurable" conditions. Don't buy their bs until you've exhausted all possible options.
Re: post-treatment diet. Yes, I was a drinker as well as a professional and lifetime endurance athlete. I also have pancrease divisum, and a surgeon detected evidence of stones in my pancreatic bile ducts and I was maliciously placed under years of sustained stress that no human being could endure w/o some serious repurcussions so, my true diagnosis, is that my condition was caused my many things, not just drinking. BUT, and here it is, you absolutely, positively have to stop drinking, 100%, all the time, for the rest of your life, absolutely no exceptions and you must stop now!!! Believe me, I'm not religious, I tried AA and absolutely hated it (kudos to those it helps), and have no moral agenda. I just woke up one day and decided that I was completely tired of being a slave to a liquid I voluntarily pour into my mouth. Easier said than done, so maybe I'm lucky. I know that looking death squarely in the face, many times, had something to do with it. Anyway, combined w/a massive dose of pancreatic enzyme supplements, I have been pain-free for 6 months, after 4 yrs. of constant pain. I started training again and am going to do a triathlon soon. My heart also turned around and, though I was supposed to be dead by last month, the outlook is better. I haven't had a recurrence of the cancer, knock on wood. I eat the world's most boring diet of brown rice, tons of fresh produce, low-fat nuts, grains, yogurt, lean fish, etc. So far, it's worked. I very well still might die of pancreatic disease, but I'm going to die living, not live dying.
Hope this helps and hope that you all find the help you need, most of all, from yourselves. If you're going to go out, go out swinging! Good luck.
So, after more hospitilazations than I can count, gallbladder removal, bladder cancer, etc., somebody finally got the brilliant idea to conduct an "MRCP" on me, which is basically an MRI for the pancreas. Turns out, I was born with "pancreas divisum" which is basically an abnormal configuration of the bile ducts that secrete the pancreatic enzymes into your digestive system for them to do their job. With divisum, the ducts can be undersized, strangulated, even virtually non-existent. Incidentally, the pancrease typically has 2-3 ducts. With divisum, one or more of these ducts can be affected. It also makes the ducts more susceptible to "stones," a condition that can come and go. As you probably know, the pain from pancreatitis is often the result of the pancreas swelling, inflamming the numerous, highly sensitive nerves wrapped around it. Many cities in the U.S. don't even have surgeons who operate on the pancreas. I live in the capitol city of my state, and not a single gastro doc in my entire state does pancreatic surgery. I must travel to Seattle, where there is an abundance. Sad truth, you must go to such a place unless you get lucky w/a truly great local doctor. Large city-gastro docs often have diagnostic and treatment techniques that can cure what your local docs deem "incurable" conditions. Don't buy their bs until you've exhausted all possible options.
Re: post-treatment diet. Yes, I was a drinker as well as a professional and lifetime endurance athlete. I also have pancrease divisum, and a surgeon detected evidence of stones in my pancreatic bile ducts and I was maliciously placed under years of sustained stress that no human being could endure w/o some serious repurcussions so, my true diagnosis, is that my condition was caused my many things, not just drinking. BUT, and here it is, you absolutely, positively have to stop drinking, 100%, all the time, for the rest of your life, absolutely no exceptions and you must stop now!!! Believe me, I'm not religious, I tried AA and absolutely hated it (kudos to those it helps), and have no moral agenda. I just woke up one day and decided that I was completely tired of being a slave to a liquid I voluntarily pour into my mouth. Easier said than done, so maybe I'm lucky. I know that looking death squarely in the face, many times, had something to do with it. Anyway, combined w/a massive dose of pancreatic enzyme supplements, I have been pain-free for 6 months, after 4 yrs. of constant pain. I started training again and am going to do a triathlon soon. My heart also turned around and, though I was supposed to be dead by last month, the outlook is better. I haven't had a recurrence of the cancer, knock on wood. I eat the world's most boring diet of brown rice, tons of fresh produce, low-fat nuts, grains, yogurt, lean fish, etc. So far, it's worked. I very well still might die of pancreatic disease, but I'm going to die living, not live dying.
Hope this helps and hope that you all find the help you need, most of all, from yourselves. If you're going to go out, go out swinging! Good luck.
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i have been hosppitalized about ten times with chronic pancreatits in the past 2 years.i still drink occasionally and i also have emphasema as well at the age of thirty.they discharge me on no strict diet and tell me to follow up with a doctor.i dont have insurance so dont know how that will reaLLY help me cause i dont have the money to pay for meds that they will put me on if they do!!!i havent been placed on none yet and i dont understand why.when my pains flare up i haave to go to hospital my enzymes have been as high as 9000.the pains never go away they have to admit me and starve me and give me pain meds and fluid!i just dont understand why they wont give me meds!there has to be some kindof meds they can discharg me with.
Yes. I have had between 15-20 attacks for the past 20months. Almost every month. It was alcohol related. Every time I had it almost, I had diarrhea.
my partner had his 1st pancreatitus last year caused by a gallstone lodging in the duct, he was very ill and i was warned he may not survive, luckily he did, he then has his gall bladder removed and has been fine since. I found on a homeopathy site that taking calcium tablets when the wind and smelly burps start stops them and i have to say they are fab, apparently calcium travels through the system and anything it doesnt need it chucks out via the intestines which grab anythig else as it goes by, he can eat anythign he wants now! he has also quit alcohol doctor ewarned him drink booze and die! it worked, however int he last 2 weeks he has lost lots of weight gone fro a hefty 16.2 to a 14.2, he is constnatly thirsty, and when he talks he sounds liek someone who has been trapped in a desert for 2 weeks with no water, dry tongue, dry lips, so parched he cant properly, does anyone else get this and if so what causes it! he has now quit caffeine, we didnt drink it then it snuck into our diets having those cappucino sachets, he drinks easily 2 or 3 litres of water a day, eats low fat, but sugar has started to appear as well, he is a mare for it, has cocoa pops for breakfast, corn beef sarnies with fruit and salad for lunch then i hpome cook everything, so tonight its shepherds pie with organic beef. any ideas i am so scared he is ill again - thanks
My husband was hospitalized for seven weeks with acute pancreatitis. The probable cause of it was two meds that he was taking, Cimetidine (taken for over 40 years) and Zocor (taken for 14 years). He also had just finished a course of Amoxicillin when he took his attack. His gallbladder was removed over 30 years ago.
He was sedated and on a ventilator for two weeks, then they did a temp. tracheostomy to wean him off the ventilator. He had 5 CT scans while recovering to keep a check on the pancreas. When he was released from the hospital he was given NO instructions about eating. While in the hospital he was only able to eat a few spoons of soup, etc. He kept asking for gingerale and they said there was none, instead of telling him he was not allowed to drink carbonated drinks!
He was so very weak, had to use a walker to get around and his muscles shrivelled up to almost non-existent. He lost 35 pounds. He has been home for two weeks now and does not need the walker around the house, just if we go to the Mall, etc. From info on the internet we found it works best for him to eat the small meals 4 - 6 times a day. He was given prescriptions for Creon and Metropolol, which he was not taking in the hospital.
The Metropolol caused his blood pressure to fall to 90/33. He was given that because one time a nurse thought he was having tachycardia, which never returned.
While in the hospital all his plumbing was connected to catheters. When I ask if he still has the diarhea he just shrugs his shoulders and says he doesn't know how to describe it anymore. Will it ever return to normal?
I am so glad that I found this site, it looks like it could have more answers for us as he recovers more.
He was sedated and on a ventilator for two weeks, then they did a temp. tracheostomy to wean him off the ventilator. He had 5 CT scans while recovering to keep a check on the pancreas. When he was released from the hospital he was given NO instructions about eating. While in the hospital he was only able to eat a few spoons of soup, etc. He kept asking for gingerale and they said there was none, instead of telling him he was not allowed to drink carbonated drinks!
He was so very weak, had to use a walker to get around and his muscles shrivelled up to almost non-existent. He lost 35 pounds. He has been home for two weeks now and does not need the walker around the house, just if we go to the Mall, etc. From info on the internet we found it works best for him to eat the small meals 4 - 6 times a day. He was given prescriptions for Creon and Metropolol, which he was not taking in the hospital.
The Metropolol caused his blood pressure to fall to 90/33. He was given that because one time a nurse thought he was having tachycardia, which never returned.
While in the hospital all his plumbing was connected to catheters. When I ask if he still has the diarhea he just shrugs his shoulders and says he doesn't know how to describe it anymore. Will it ever return to normal?
I am so glad that I found this site, it looks like it could have more answers for us as he recovers more.