Re:I tried

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I have posted recently that I had some stent work on my dorsal duct. I

was so happy and thought I had finally reached being pain free without a

large amount of surgery on my pancreas. Well, sad to say this is not so. My pain

has returned and more excruciating than before. I want to throw up all the

time. I believe that a sent or two ,in my dorsal duct, maybe having problems.

This

was my last chance for help with stents. I was told that too much destruction

to my pancreas has made it so I am need of this surgery.. It has been hard

for me to come to this conclusion, but I can't live like a yo-yo, and never know

when my pancreas will go out on me. On Thursday I became so sick, For the

first time in my pancreatic disease life I was scared. My fever was high,

atleast

for me, and the pain was uncontrollable. It was the awful. I couldn't even

lean back on my bed because the pain had radiated to my back.. I couldn't make

sense out of anything. The pain management person became so frustrated with me,

I wouldn't take the pain meds...I finally gave in and am now pondering what

comes next , which is surgery. Has anyone heard of a surgery where the surgeon

slices the top of the pancreas and pulls up the stomach and attaches it to

the opening. I don't know what the name is but it is not called the whipple. if

anyone has had this or knows the name I would love to know, so I can do more

research on it. I hate going into these things blind. That's what got me into

this mess to begin with. I sat there staring at the DR. and said , " Do what you

need Todd because you are a DR. and you know what is best. " That's one lesson

I don't want to repeat that again. I have babbled on and on. I hope someone

out there has had this procedure and could tell me more about the out

come...................My positive healthy thoughts to you all Paget

[Guest guest]

Paget,

I don't know if this website has that exact surgery, but

check the various ones out to see if it fits any of those

described (it even includes pictures of what they do).

http://www.hopkins-gi.org/pages/latin/templates/index.cfm?pg=disease3 & organ=4 & di\

sease=24 & lang_id=1 & pagetype=12 & pagenum=261

Let me know if the link doesn't work as it's pretty long.

Kimber

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Kimber

Vallejo, CA

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