Almost forgot,......enzyme levels.

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I almost forgot........when I was first diagnosed the dosc up here

cancelled my ERCP because my enzymes were so high they were afraid it

would make it worse. The docs here sent me to ton SC to MUSC,

Dr. Cotton a month later. When I got there, my enzyme levels

were triple what they were here! It scared me because of what I had

been told. Dr. Cotton told me right then and there to " forget those

numbers. " It did not scare him and it shouldn't scare me! Now thats

a doc who knows what he is doing! I think the problem with the ERCPs

is that the docs are not good at doing them. The less manipulation

of that bile duct the better. Someone told me that Dr. Cotton could

get in and do an ERCP, inject dye into the duct, etc, etc withouth

touching the sides of the duct! That's good. An ERCP should not

take very long. If the doc is in their very long " banging around "

it becomes dangerous. My aunt had an ERCP up here in NC for some

reason or another and they kept her in there almost three hours

banging around! They finally said they could not get in the duct,

sent her to MUSC in ton SC. Dr. Cotton went in, absolutely

nothing wrong and had no trouble getting in that duct! ERCP is

a " skill " that most of these GI docs don't have and are causing

patients to get worse! A couple of weeks ago, my GI doc here in NC

asked me if when they put the stent in do they have to replace it

does it get clogged? She didn't even know that you can't keep them

forever! This is a GI doc! Very scary!

Ta,ta!

Kaye