I think that the biggest mistake that we can make as patients with Pancreatitis and Doctors is assuming that they always know more about it than we do about the subject. I mean after all – they do have the white coats and have spent years going to medical school so you’d think that they… Read More »
I’ve been living with Pancreatitis for almost five years now and in some ways it hasn’t changed anything and in other ways it has changed everything. Living With Pancreatitis Although it seems like I am starting to understand a bit better how to limit the number of acute attacks that I have there is still… Read More »
Anyone who has watched Honey Boo Boo’s reality show will only shake their head and wonder why it hasn’t happened sooner. It was recently announced that Sugar Bear was hospitalized with acute pancreatitis. He spent nearly a week in the hospital and got what has to be bad news about what the doctors want him to… Read More »
Just when you thought it was safe to get back in the water, or something like that, another study finds a link between a drug that is commonly prescribed and pancreatitis. “Researchers from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found that individuals treated with certain forms of cortisone appear to be at increased risk of acute… Read More »
One of the side affects of pancreatitis is the extreme pain that it causes. It can be so painful that it can be almost impossible to deal with. It can make it impossible to live a normal life even as it damages your pancreas. During smaller flare-ups I can get by with a few percocet. … Read More »