332 people with Pancreatitis have joined the DiseaseMaps community map. They have shared 308 first-person answers and 17 stories about living with the condition.
My story starts 25 years ago, with a trip to the hospital and a stay. My diagnosis was Acute Pancreatitis, a disease with one of its main symptoms and result of an acute attack is really severe pain. I would experience these...
unsure of which year I first had Budd- Chiari, but diagnosed 2008, but with necrotizing pancreatitis.
Have had pancreas disease for at least 16 years.
Necrotizing Pancreatitis (worst form, just before cancer). Disabled Veteran.
since the ages of being a toddler, I've had attacks of something but they never did the right tests to find the right diagnosis. Until, December 2014 was I then diagnosed with pancreatitis. Ever since I have found out that it is a mutation (PRSS1 gen...
Explaining what has gone on with my life feels a bit like a novel or a Oscar nominated film as you really couldn't script it. In 2006 I came back from my first year at university and re-registered at my doctors. I gave a urine sample and the next thi...
I have Crohn's Disease and I had six episodes of accute pancreatitis. Doctors do not know what is wrong with me; all the tests were fine. There are no signals of autoinmune pancreatitis or chronic pancreatitis, so I have been diagno...
Possible pancreatitis paintreatments are (strong) painkillers (own doctor) or neurostimulation (done in a multidisciplinair paincentre) or intrathecale paintherapy (done in a multidisciplinair paincentre). Possible use of enzymes such as Creon and ot...
The most common symptom of pancreatitis is a severe upper abdominal and/or left upper quadrant pain radiating to the back. Unexplained weight loss may occur from a lack of pancreatic enzymes hindering digestion.
25 people with Pancreatitis have taken the SF36 survey. Mean of Pancreatitis is 1438 points (40 %). Total score ranges from 0 to 3,600 being 0 the worst and 3,600 the best. Take the SF36 Survey