Experiences with

Acute pancreatitis

hi everyone, I have my first bout of acute pancreatitis in April and was hospitalized. Since then I have had a few flare ups but nothing major. I am currently getting over my worst flare up yet and have pancreatic steatorrhea.

My beautiful mum was admitted to ICU on Thursday with severe acute pancreatitis. She has been in an induced coma on a ventilator since Saturday. It breaks my heart seeing her like this and I’m emotionally drained from the worry and anxiety of the unknown.

Greetings, I'm concerned about my condition (chronic/acute pancreatitis) being a health risk to my children/grandkids. I am wondering if anyone has a good opinion of the many testing companies out there. It seems they all have good/bad points.

Though I have had annual, half-yearly- and quarterly episodes for quite some years doctor diagnosed it officially as acute pancreatitis in June 2023. Since then last Sunday I survived again with another heavy attack and this time reports revealed it is chronic pancreatitis.

So after a flare up of acute pancreatitis that left him bedridden, when hubby got better last week I was hoping we'd seen the back of illness for a while.

Pancreatitis is a progressive disease, sometimes diagnosed as acute pancreatitis or recurrent acute pancreatitis before becoming chronic. If you've been diagnosed with chronic pancreatitis, share your journey in the comments below.

Now chronic pancreatitis- I have been living with phases of hospitalisations from severe acute pancreatitis attacks (more so when I was younger), currently ongoing constant pain, sometimes extremely severe, recently just on-going pain everyday for months.

My partner with liver cirrhosis is struggling with pain and Diarrhea , the consultant asked me to drop a stool sample in on Monday, which i did he said he would be in contact as he said he might need to give her something for her pancreas , she has had acute pancreatitis twice the year.

my husband has been told previously that he can’t have an MR because he has a metallic heart valve , today his endoscopic ultrasound was cancelled which was to investigate his recent acute pancreatitis, complication aneurysm and gastrointestinal haemorrhage.

But 6 months ago I had a bout of acute pancreatitis, which has become chronic. Tests for elastase are OK, scans and gastroscopy show no malignancy. I have lost 20% of my body weight and am now size 8. Apart from a dietitian appointment, no follow up has been pursued by my GP practice.

My question is and no doctor has told me yes or no is this anyway connected to my bout of gallstones and acute pancreatitis I had in early February. On 13th February 2024 I had my Gall bladder removed so dealt with 3 weeks of diarrhoea and eating a low fat diet.

I gave up alcohol 6 months ago following an attack of acute pancreatitis and being hospitalised for 4 days, this event was enough for me to decide to stop my bottle of wine habit of 20 years altogether.

i had acute pancreatitis in 2018 as a 34 year old male. I recovered in 2 months at home with minimal hospital stay. Since then had multiple episodes but lipase was never elevated to the extent of it being diagnosed as AP.

You see a few weeks ago my other half eas taking azathioprine for a combination drug to treat Crohns disease and it gave him acute Pancreatitis, it was awful and so hard to get pain relief and treatment in the surgical ward they discharge him and it was not under control and he was taken back in.

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Then admitted with acute pancreatitis at 10 weeks postnatal, caused by gallstones i didnt know i had so had gallbladder removed.

I have had 3 episodes of heart palpitations, but still fighting infection from Ecoli and acute necrotising pancreatitis. Infection markers were well over 400 and now down to around 40 from last blood test. Also need to get gallbladder out to protect pancreas.

Hi I have joined on behalf of my wife who has chronic pancreatitis but is acute at this time She has just spent 7 days in hospital on pain relief but now been discharged with codine and paracetamol for relief She is still in a lot of pain and struggling to eat any advice please

From memory, it was either gallstones or acute pancreatitis. Was diagnosed with fatty liver and raised liver function. Drank way too much and ate too much garbage. Scared me to death. Quit drinking and ate a strict diet. In 6 months I lost 3 stone. Continued to eat healthy but I did have a drink.

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