Nichole and

[Guest guest]

Nichole just called me and has been admitted to the hospital

after his ERCP he developed Pancreatitis and wanted me to ask what the

plan has been for anyone who has had this following an ERCP. They are

at the hospital so I will relay any message I get to her.

Thanks, Bettyann (SC)

[Guest guest]

The usual treatment is nothing by mouth until the pancreatic enzymes (mostly

amylase) come down to near normal. For me, it took about 4 days each time; pain

was treated with morphine or toradol (it IS painful).

Arne

---- bettyann wrote:

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Nichole just called me and has been admitted to the hospital

after his ERCP he developed Pancreatitis and wanted me to ask what the

plan has been for anyone who has had this following an ERCP. They are

at the hospital so I will relay any message I get to her.

Thanks, Bettyann (SC)

[Guest guest]

Another very important thing is to make

sure you find someone with a lot of experience with ERCP procedures and " good

hands " .

Chaim Boermeester, Israel

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[Guest guest]

Hi all!

I would like to second Arne's Notion. It is literally disgusting and terrible bedside manner when an MD does not take the patient and/or their next of kin argument in to consideration. I think that the Dr ought to have his license revoked and should become a plumber instead (maybe not even that)

Sorry just fed up with these stories.

Shaul

PSC UCSee what's free at AOL.com.

[Guest guest]

Hi Nichole,

I know I'm late respondig and I feel kind of bad because I think that

possibly I was partly responsible for some misunderstandings that led

to this situation with the doctor. He was very off-base talking to you

like that, especially implying that a) you didn't have ' best

interest in mind and that because of what you said he moved

to the back of the line for CT. He sounds like a schoolteacher

punishing you (and ) for talking back!

We were talking here about the CT scan for detecting CCA, and the

papers say that MRCP is better for detecting cancer. But had

already had a CT for the CCA, and they wanted to do another one after

his ERCP. Did they say the purpose of the new CT was to learn more

about his pancreatitis? I'm not at all sure MRI would have been useful

for that. Twice when I've had pain after a procedure they did CT to

detect internal bleeding or a suspected leak from the colon. After I

had an ERCP the last few times I vomited for quite a while. They were

trying to discharge me and I still felt sick so they gave me a

Compazine suppository that cleared it right up. Which was good because

they practically booted me out the door. I'm going to find out more

about that and if it seems safe, I will ask for that earlier next

time. The delivery method is a little unpleasant, but it's better than

being given a pill that you can't keep down!

With MRCP you are also supposed to have contrast, as I found out when

I scheduled an MRCP a few hours before a colonoscopy. I thought that

would be OK but then they gave me the " milkshake " . Since I was to have

nothing to eat or drink and I'd invested a night on the toilet for the

colonoscopy I certainly wasn't going to reschedule that. They didn't

call my doctor (who was already doing colonoscopies) and decided to go

ahead without contrast. This was the MRCP that detected the stricture,

so it went OK, but the images would have been better with contrast.

Then when I went over for the colonoscopy the Dr was annoyed they

didn't call him because he said he would have gone ahead even if I'd

had the contrast.

I hope you hear from the lab soon. Do let us know. You are in our

thoughts.

Martha (MA)