Pancreatits, now Proctitis In less than 1 year??? whats going on with me??!

Well, its been almost a year of torment and I'm finally turning to the internet for support. Like many of you i suffer from some hypochondria. Just thought i'd include that in my post here.

Ill post two versions for those that don't want all the details :)


My questions:
Does me having pancreatitis and proctitis have any sort of correlation? Ive never had any gastro problems, my moms brother has Crohn's disease, and my sister has IBS. Ive also started a new Job when all of this happened. I've started a job as a Tool Maker and i grind alot of metal, that being said im sure ive digested metal dust along the way, not to mention the alluminum oxiode griding dust from the grinding wheels used. I use a mask as much as possible but its always difficult to wear it ALL the time.
Anyways what should i be doing to make sure this doesnt turn out to be anything worse and keep it under control. I think im lucky based on the stories iver read about people with UP and UC.

---------Short Version--------------

Pancreatitis early Jan 2013
checked for gallstones, ultrasound and MRI (found nothing)
went on strict diet of low-no fats, pancreatitis gone after a month

Foul smelling gas and loose stool Spring 2013
was going through alot during this time, very stressed, anxious, GI told me it was stress related

Mucus in stool Summer 2013
After being Ill with what seemed to be some sort of food poinsing i began having mucus in my stool, no change in amout of BMs or pain/ urgency just mucus and blood streak on stool and blood on tissue.

after doing sigmoidoscopy proctitis was my diagnosis, was perscribed salofalk 1,000mg ASA-5 and Cortifoam.



----------Full Version------------

Jan 2013 i started to suffer from upper abdominal pain, I ignored it or didn't think much of it until i realized it wasn't going away and the pain was constant throughout the day. Went to the hospital, did blood work and turns out i had pancreatitis. checked from gall stones, didnt have any. did a mri and ultrasound, everything came back fine. spent a few nights in the ER with a drip and went on a strict diet of very to no fats. after 5 months i tapered off the diet. During this time I was going through ALOT of stress, almost lost my father and i was going through bouts of foul smelling gas and loose foul smelling stool, went back to the gastro, told me it was stress causing my problems, after a few weeks it went away, went back to having normal stool. Sometime this summer i got a fever out of no where and had diarrhea, i didnt think anything of it at the time i just figured it was some bad food i had or something. Went away after two days. But once my stool went back to normal after being ill i started seeing white mucus covering my stool (mainly the first few inches of my stool) Back to my doc, said its probably a bug or bacteria, did a stool sample to see. During the wait for my results i had saw a blood streak on one of my stools, went to the hospital... they told me it was probably an internal hemorrhoid, that made me feel good, started to think it was just an internal hem. during this period i got my sample back, it came back fine. (this is over the course of probably 3-4 months) finally got an appointment with my GI and he saw me, told me he wanted to do a sigmoidoscopy to see whats happening, he had a feeling it was proctitis and wanted to look. Of course i went online that night and freaked out because it sounded like a terrible disease to have! over the time i was waiting to hear back from my test, my mucus was slowly become less and less but everytime i had a bm i would wipe and have blood on the tissue (bright red) this whole time i would never have any pain or discomfort or any urgency to have a bm, infact my bms were always at the same time and always fully formed, when I did my sigmoidoscopy and took a biopsy, got results back and it looks like ive got proctitis. He prescribed me Salofalik Supp 1,000MG 5-ASA and some cortifoam. Ive started the suppository on tuesday (its been 3 days) and immediatly the blood stopped. Ive chosen to not use the cortifoam because im not really sure when to use it.


***I dont have time to proof read this post, i will revisit when i have the time later today, if something doesnt make sense please reply and ill try my best to revise later tonight.

THanks!
Leo

soystud said...
hey Leo buddy - welcome

I don't have time to read either the short, long, or just plain brutal versions, but did want to at least answer your question :

"whats going on with me??!"

uh well, my miniscule answer = you have a fricked up colon -

The amount of time it took for you to write that you could of read my short version, you non-contributing zero!

yes, I could HAVE leo buddy - but that's not the point -

are you always this much fun - or are you like my wife, only a jerk in the morning ?

geez, lighten up buddy -

Whats that supposed to mean :P im just here for the same reason you all are.

It sounds like you are responding to treatment and that's a good thing!

As far as the cortifoam I think you could use that at night and then Salafolk suppository in the morning. If you typically have a morning BM wait to insert until after.

Vickitoria35 said...
Hi leo I too had pancreatitis with apparently no cause shortly before my uc symptoms started and i too have proctitis.
At the time they put it down to a side effect of the omeprazole I was taking at the time but I've since done a lot of research and discovered that pancreatitis is indeed linked to uc and can often be an early sign before any intestinal symptoms start.
It's known as an extra intestinal manifestation of the disease.
If it helps that was 5 years ago and have never had pancreatitis since. And proctitis well controlled with oral meds.
Vicki

After posting this I did some research aswell, there seems to be a link between pancreatitis and uc but nothing is concrete. But it's nice to know there is someone else out there who's experienced similar things. Is your proctitis currently in remission?

I also had some bouts with pancreatitis about 8-9 months before my UC diagnosis...which proctitis back then. Short version is; I had a very bad cold, while getting over the cold I started have random abdominal-ish pain that ended up being pancreatitis. Fasted at home for 4-5 days (nothing but water), then slowly reintroduced foods but stayed on a very low fat diet. After a few weeks the pancreatitis came back and fasting again didn't work. I ended up in the hospital, NPO for about a week. Slowly started eating very lowfat again, but the pancreatitis never totally went away. Two GI's agreed that I had sludge in my galbladder that MAY have been causing the trouble, and I ended up having my galbladder removed. 4-5 months after that surgery, my UC symptoms started. I believe that it is all somehow related and that I may have had my galbladder removed for no good reason. My GP agrees that it is likely all related somehow. I WAS completely normal and healthy.....now I have a few auto immune disorders/issues and no galbladder or colon!!