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09-05-13, 19:36
I'm a new user, I'm 24 and I'm freaking out.
So I think I have either a chronic pancreatitis (about 7 years to live) or a pancreatic cancer (sliiightly worse here, about 6 months).
'Bout 8 months ago I've had a "gallbladder" attack (in quotes as nobody is sure what that really was), and I've gone through a Ultra Sound thing (nothing out of the ordinairy there) and I had my blood samples taken about 8 times, checking everything there was to check in blood. All they found was elevated billirubin levels (5 times higher than it's suppose to be), so they just gave me some medication for the inflamed gallbladder and called it quits. Everything went back to normal. Super.
And now it's back! Feeling nausea, mild jaundice, dark urine (sorry, a bit descriptive) pain in the upper right... all of that. Went to a doc again, she gave me the same medication (which made things better... again) and now I have to check my pancreatic enzyme levels. I'm really freaking worried that there's something really messed up with my pancreas! I mean, the gallbladder doesn't just go nuts twice without a reason, right?
If the doc thinks there might be something goin' on with my pancreas, it has to be that. And I'm worried I'm gonna die. Now I'm really depressed (also a symptom of pancreatic cancer... doesn't help!), and scared.
And now I'm feeling pain in the upper left and gurgling. Yeah, it may be my anxiety, but I'm not going to think rationally.
I'm thinking that the vitamin medication for my acne somehow fritzed up my pancreas when I was taking it for a year (the symptoms started a couple of months after I stoped taking it). It has to be something serious, I mean I did have 2 gallbladder attacks without gallstones...
I kinda also have some history with panic attacks (heart palpitations about 9-10 monts back) and IBS, so I don't know... I just don't. Maybe I'm not in the right place to freak out? Maybe I should've posted this on some med forum? Sorry if I'm in the wrong place. I've been really depressed/anxious for a year now, and this isn't helping at all...
So I think I have either a chronic pancreatitis (about 7 years to live) or a pancreatic cancer (sliiightly worse here, about 6 months).
'Bout 8 months ago I've had a "gallbladder" attack (in quotes as nobody is sure what that really was), and I've gone through a Ultra Sound thing (nothing out of the ordinairy there) and I had my blood samples taken about 8 times, checking everything there was to check in blood. All they found was elevated billirubin levels (5 times higher than it's suppose to be), so they just gave me some medication for the inflamed gallbladder and called it quits. Everything went back to normal. Super.
And now it's back! Feeling nausea, mild jaundice, dark urine (sorry, a bit descriptive) pain in the upper right... all of that. Went to a doc again, she gave me the same medication (which made things better... again) and now I have to check my pancreatic enzyme levels. I'm really freaking worried that there's something really messed up with my pancreas! I mean, the gallbladder doesn't just go nuts twice without a reason, right?
If the doc thinks there might be something goin' on with my pancreas, it has to be that. And I'm worried I'm gonna die. Now I'm really depressed (also a symptom of pancreatic cancer... doesn't help!), and scared.
And now I'm feeling pain in the upper left and gurgling. Yeah, it may be my anxiety, but I'm not going to think rationally.
I'm thinking that the vitamin medication for my acne somehow fritzed up my pancreas when I was taking it for a year (the symptoms started a couple of months after I stoped taking it). It has to be something serious, I mean I did have 2 gallbladder attacks without gallstones...
I kinda also have some history with panic attacks (heart palpitations about 9-10 monts back) and IBS, so I don't know... I just don't. Maybe I'm not in the right place to freak out? Maybe I should've posted this on some med forum? Sorry if I'm in the wrong place. I've been really depressed/anxious for a year now, and this isn't helping at all...