Chronic or acute?
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April 5th 2022. I went to bed after a nice spicy pasta meal. I'd eat wrecklessly until this day but did suffer with diarreah in the mornings if I had too much coffee or fried food. I'd had this pain before but just thought it was indigestion/acid reflux. The pain on this night was VERY demanding and became excruciating. I tossed & turned for over 8 hrs then admitted myself to A&E. I was diagnosed with Gastritis and sent home on some nice painkillers. All good then April 17th after binging on Easter treats I went into an even worse attack, this time coupled with what seemed to be awful reflux and when I burped I felt my food wanting to come up. I spent the entire week miserable but switching my diet as I was now following a Gastritis diet.
May 5th. The day im thankful for.
I went into a THIRD attack, assumingly after not healing from the previous episode.. I dragged myself, this time with a blazing fever, back to A%E and demanded they check my abdominal bloods. To my horror and delight they found not only a terribly inflamed pancreas but lots of little gallstones. I stayed in hospital for one week and they got my levels down. Then I was on the gallbladder removal hot list and I'm 3 weeks post op.
This has been a weird month. I didn't even know what a pancreas or gallbladder was, I've gone from a very fluid work, music and social life to sheer health anxiety but wanted any insight if this sounds like chronic or acute pancreatitis? I'm gonna guess my pancreas is p****d off with me as I only treated it one month after the first attack so its been through hell. They did an MRI around 20 days ago and my bile ducts were clear thankfully.
Last 2 days I've had little teasy jabs in my upper back and a little intermittent stabbing under my left rib - I'm gonna take it as a hint not to have anymore treats (I've been fully low fat for one month but I can tolerate chocolate & cookies and have a bad sweet tooth...)
Am I now a chronic sufferer?
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