📣 Discussion Topic: How do you describe pancreatitis pain to other people?

[Skye_MC]

We've heard it all – from an "angry badger being stuck inside my abdomen" to "being repeatedly stabbed in the gut by an electrified ice pick." Pancreatitis pain is no joke. How do you describe pancreatitis pain to other people? Let us know. 👇💙

[Readingagatha]

Like a dagger thrusting in to me repeatedly

[Mazzmo2]

A machete stuck deep inside my abdomen that makes me too scared to move in case it rips my abdomen so badly and painfully that I die screaming with so much blood loss that all my family and friends family pass out from the shock and are traumatised for the rest of their lives...well, at least an hour, sincr they have all seen me in a bad way since the beginning of my many health problems 🤣🤑😝

[BlueMoon65]

In the acute phase, an- all consuming blur of pain in the abdomen, which couldn't be described. Plus a sudden, really exquisite pain in the right upper arm with weakness ( I thought I'd had a stroke), which was so bad I couldn't sleep. In the chronic phase, like a period pain across the upper abdomen, across the back as if the muscles had been severed. Then lightning strikes of sharp pain in the scapulae, as if an electric cattle prod was applied. Then a 'fizzing' electric impulse on the skin of the back. In the 'coming out' phase, just a rumbling under the right ribs, and an occasional 'zing' in the right shoulder blade. Maybe I should do a painting! 🥹 Is this cycle common to other people? I am taking Polyzyme, which I bought myself in the first five weeks, as NHS doctors were just not taking notice. Now, I am continuing on this with my GP's approval. I have no side effects, can eat a fairly rigid régime of food without pain, and understand that some NHS supply issues have left patients with no enzymes for a while.