How likely is this to be pancreatitis out of ten, folks?

Thanks Lab!

I received another message a few minutes ago and got my hopes up. It was just another IBD nurse telling me that the one I had been speaking to would be away until next Wednesday >_<. She did say she checked and the results hadn't come back yet, though. Gah. I will almost certainly have to wait until next Monday now.

I'm meant to be going over to my brother's for dinner later on. My stomach is dodgy but on the other hand there is apple pie and custard for dessert. Do I a) do the sensible thing and refrain for the sake of my stomach and (increasingly tenuous) diet, or b) attack the apple pie and custard like a mad thing?

I could hug you right now, scifigal :p

NCOT, I hope you chose B and enjoyed that pie and custard !:D
@scifigal, I agree with you about being in the middle with pain, that's where I've been hanging out with mine.

Hopefully Monday will be a day of answers for both of us!

I had the apple pie and custard, folks >_>

Unfortunately the evening didn't end on a high note, to put it mildly. For a start the apple pie was slightly disappointing: the filling wasn't piping hot and a few of the apple pieces were still hard (a cardinal culinary sin). The pastry and custard were nice, so I still enjoyed it but it wasn't food-of-the-gods tier.

And then things started to get fractious around the table. Had a fairly enjoyable and interesting discussion on what was the most intelligent animal. My brother made some innocuous comment about how human activities had affected wildlife, and my dad launched into some bizarre spiel about how nothing humans did could ever make any difference to the planet and then it turned into an argument about global warming - yes, my dad is one of 'those' types: a climate change denier. He didn't used to be, but that's another story I won't go into there.

A bit later on, it was my turn to go into irrational meltdown mode when my mum brought up a book called We Need To Talk about Kevin. She seems to shoehorn this bloody book into every family gathering; I'm honestly sick of hearing about it and doubt I will ever read it, not least because "Kevin" sounds utterly implausible. Anyway, so my family starts talking their usual bollocks and I get triggered. Start raging incoherently about parents not wanting to take any responsibility for how their children turn out and how nobody had any idea how angry I was a few years ago. I then got up from the table, walked out of the house, and drove home.

So yeah. Deffo not the best evening I've ever had, although weirdly enough my stomach was okay and I had - by my standards - a good night's sleep (I did take paracetamol and codeine before going to bed however). The awkward thing is, I usually go over to my parents on a Saturday and today is Saturday (obviously). I dunno whether to go now or not. I was a bit out of order, I know, but I can't see it was any worse than the usual drama queen tactics most of my family go in for. Just can't face dealing with my mum's guilt-tripping if she decides to take that attitude about it.

As for the pain, it was quite bad earlier on but has largely subsided for now. Just gonna have a very light day today I reckon.

#BlogWell

Edit: My mum phoned up. It was a tad awkward at first, but fortunately she was okay - just basically rolled her eyes and said something about my brother and sister-in-law, to which I said they could hardly think I'm any weirder than I already am. But I've known her be a lot, lot worse, so that was good. Anyway, I'm going over there for dinner now. My brother (not the same one whose house I went to yesterday) is coming over as well - I get on much better with this brother.

Post Edited (NiceCupOfTea) : 2/25/2017 9:25:09 AM (GMT-7)

Thanks gumby :p

You'll be glad to know it went fine today <_<. It was nice seeing my brother again as well. Had a lovely dinner of roast lamb and potatoes. Gonna pop some painkillers now and head to bed.

Meh, I only like salad in summer really. In winter it's all about the fattening foods <_<.

Pain-wise, my pain has gotten a bit worse over the weekend but not so bad I need to go to A&E for it. It's kinda frustrating - I almost wish it would get worse so I have an excuse to go to A&E. If I have pancreatitis, I know I'm making it worse by eating but what can I do? I can't stop eating and drinking :/

Thanks clo :p

Been a proper, proper rubbish day so far :/

First of all I nearly had a heart attack when I got a letter from the council saying they had suspended my housing benefit due to a "change of cirumstances". I alternated between being in a state of tears and being in the utmost bad temper. To cut a very long story short, with the help of my parents we eventually got it sorted out, but it was a grim few hours.

Also have a sinking feeling (not unrelated to the housing benefit thing) that my disability benefit is going to be stopped, if it hasn't been already. Admittedly I don't know that for certain yet though.

To top it all, some moderator on the UC board is singling me out and I'm just so not in the mood for it today. Oh yeah, and my pain migrated round to the back this morning :-/

No results from the IBD nurse today; I'll get in touch tomorrow morning.

Thanks scifigal!

I guess I'm reluctant to go to A& E unless I really can't function - and I can function =/ I'll see how it goes tomorrow - I'm gonna go to bed shortly.

Nah, I don't really have to take pain meds any more. I'm still taking them at night but I often take something before I go to bed. In the daytime I'm not taking anything now.

Also, my IBD nurse got back to me today and said my pancreatitis result was normal. So that's the end of it for now at any rate. God knows what it was. Is it possible a mild case of pancreatitis could clear up by itself - you obviously had a super duper severe case, scifigal.

Yeah, yours sounded insane.

If the pain does come back again severely, I won't faff around for ages next time; I'll go to A&E. I'm glad it's over, but that was a weird episode.

Clo - Thanks. Yeah, I would have liked an answer too :-/

As for the benefits, since 2010 the government has been targeting people on disability benefits in a big way. Somehow during that period I was able to get disability awarded for two years but I think they are going to take it away before my two years are even up (this October). Even though basically nothing has changed.

But that's another story. I'll be all right as long as I have my parents to help me out :/

NCOT,

I am sorry you aren't feeling well today.

I fought with uveitis for almost 6 months off and on. I finally got the doctor to call in a refillable script so that if it happened on a weekend I would be covered. Huge hassle. I have discovered, to my dismay, that when I am tired, really stressed, or ill it comes back. It is slowly tapering on frequency, length of time, and how bad it is.

The pain on the side.....I dunno. I don't know if I should hope it goes away so you are pain free or if I should hope it stays so you can get some answers. It seems that we can't get any answers unless we are in pain.(and even then it is iffy)

Sending healing thoughts your way.

Clo