acute pancreatitus 2 - Waga 0

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:59 am

I'm typing this from a bed in St. Lukes hospital, where my sick ass has been since 3 am Sunday. Suffered all day Saturday until the pain become unbearable to the point I drug myself to the nearest ER and asked for help.

Thing is, there's really not much that can be done to treat it other than give you narcotic pain killers and abstain form eating or drinking anything until the inflammation subsides. I had hoped to stay here only one night, but my doctor said I wasn't ready yet.

Seems the pancreas excretes this enzyme called lipase to help digest whatever garbage it is that I ate or drank. Blood tests showed that I had about 5 times the normal level of lipase in my system, thus causing excruciating pain. After the first night in the hospital that level and barely gone down.

yep... sucks to be me right about now,

Wolfman · Post by **Wolfman** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 11:49 am

http://www.chemocare.com/managing/hyper ... lipase.asp

Good luck.

Cueball · Post by **Cueball** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 12:59 pm

Get better soon so we can bust your balls about it

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:03 pm

Things you can do to avoid/mitigate hyperlipasemia:

Avoiding alcohol

:cry:

Get better bro.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:08 pm

War Wagon wrote:yep... sucks to be me right about now,

It would suck to be you....ever.

Get well soon, Whitey.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 1:10 pm

Things you can do to avoid/mitigate hyperlipasemia:

Avoiding alcohol

That shouldn’t be a problem, considering the pisswater he chooses to drink.

Left Seater · Post by **Left Seater** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:22 pm

Thoughts and prayers from Mr and Mrs 'Seater.

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 2:43 pm

Goober McTuber wrote:It would suck to be you....ever.

Bwaha, get well soon Whitey.

This guy knows how you feel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_mckagen

On May 10, 1994, at the age of 30, McKagan became gravely ill due to acute alcohol-induced pancreatitis, which caused his pancreas to swell to the size of a football and leak digestive enzymes into his body, causing third-degree burns. He was taken to Northwest Hospital and Medical Center in Seattle, where he was monitored until the swelling went down. He was told by his doctors that he would be dead within a month if he did not stop drinking.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:10 pm

You'd better have good insurance. The rest of us shouldn't have to cover your ER expenses.

Hope you feel better soon, though.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:20 pm

Get well soon, Wags. You're a good guy.

If you can't get the medical attention you need in your Third World shit-hole, have someone wheel you up to the Canadian border. I'll have some of my people smuggle you across. I can hook you up with a hospital card, where you can get the best medical treatment in the civilised world...all for free.

Technically, this is fraud...but sometimes a bro has to bend the rules for another bro.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Tue Apr 03, 2012 3:22 pm

P.S. If what you have is contagious, could you please cough on Mikey before you come up here? TIA.

Left Seater · Post by **Left Seater** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:07 pm

Martyred wrote:I'll have some of my people smuggle you across. I can hook you up with a hospital card, where you can get the best medical treatment in the civilised world...all for free.

So what happens when you visit FL and then are hospitalized? They still pay for that?

Mace · Post by **Mace** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:28 pm

Take care of yourself, Wags, and get well soon. I guess I'll have to drink that beer I was always going to buy you. Damn, no alcohol? I'd call Kevorkian.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:39 pm

an alky I work with got prison raped by pancreatitus a few years back.

Didn't look like much fun. Hasn't touched a drop since. He was a bud drinker too.

I think maybe there's a correlation there.

Alcohol doesn't cause pancreatitus. shitty alcohol does.

I will raise a cold SA product tonight for you, wags and thank god and my fully functional pancreas that i drink real beer.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 4:46 pm

Thanks for the well wishes, all. Doctor is going to release me today I just heard, said the lipase levels were down to just about normal. I guess 3 days w/o eating will do that.

Mikey wrote:You'd better have good insurance. The rest of us shouldn't have to cover your ER expenses

I have decent insurance, should cover about 80%, but I'll still probably owe these fuck about $4 grand when they get done bending me over.

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:12 pm

War Wagon wrote:I'm typing this from a bed in St. Lukes hospital, where my sick ass has been since 3 am Sunday. Suffered all day Saturday until the pain become unbearable to the point I drug myself to the nearest ER and asked for help.

That is what you get for trying to fuck with me Friday night in chat.

Hope all turns out well.

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:22 pm

Well, Wags did say he was feeling sick as a dog when he made his brief appearance in Chat.

Guess he wasn't kidding.

So, Wags, gonna quit drinking?

Screw_Michigan · Post by **Screw_Michigan** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:26 pm

Alcoholism is one (of many) causes of acute pancreatitus. It is not the sole cause. Kind of like how Reeves Nelson is one of many causes of UCLAme's failure in basketball, not the sole cause.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 5:32 pm

In honor of Bert Sugar, who died last week:

"I'd rather be a liver than have one."

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:11 pm

Wags, pancreatitis is a nasty and painful inflammation and is most commonly caused with excessive alcohol consumption. Smoking adds to the risk. Those digestive enzmes amylase (to break down starches) and lipase (to break down fats) are the diagnostic tests they would have run on you. The elevated levels of lipase may be 5 to 40 times normal of 0 to 160 units/liter from your blood work. So if you're at a 6 x level and felt that badly, guess how some of the alcoholics I've seen in hospitals feel when there's are typically much higher. They typically keep you for at least 72 hours for that condition.

I hope they also tested your liver function with AST/ALT. If I were you I would ask the doctor for those results. AST and ALT enzymes from the liver give you a better look at how much damage alcohol has caused. Those levels do go down when you cut back on alcohol. I would know right?

Hope all is well.

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:16 pm

Atomic Punk wrote:I hope they also tested your liver function with AST/ALT. If I were you I would ask the doctor for those results. AST and ALT enzymes from the liver give you a better look at how much damage alcohol has caused. Those levels do go down when you cut back on alcohol. I would know right?

When have you ever cut back on alcohol, you disgusting drunken tranny?

Atomic Punk · Post by **Atomic Punk** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:32 pm

Goober McTuber wrote: When have you ever cut back on alcohol, you disgusting drunken tranny?

Well since you so politely asked, the answer is today so far. Hey, since you're an old fossil, where is your next SS check going to, a Brazilian wax or those old people wrap around sunglasses/blinders?

Goober McTuber · Post by **Goober McTuber** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 6:35 pm

I'm 7 or 11 years away from collecting Social Security. Next wax is on Thursday.

War Wagon · Post by **War Wagon** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:30 pm

Van wrote: So, Wags, gonna quit drinking?

Probably for awhile, doubt I'll quit altogether, but I certainly intend to cut back considerably. Just like with smoking, there are many time where'd I pop one open not so much because I really wanted one, but just out of habit and because I could.

While I really like my beer, the price to pay is just too damned high.

Anyways, I escaped the hospital and it sure feels good to be back home now. The only place I want to be at less than a hopsital is a prison.

Again, thanks for the well wishes from everybody, not really what I expected

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:37 pm

War Wagon wrote:
Van wrote: So, Wags, gonna quit drinking?
Probably for awhile, doubt I'll quit altogether, but I certainly intend to cut back considerably. Just like with smoking, there are many time where'd I pop one open not so much because I really wanted one, but just out of habit and because I could.

While I really like my beer, the price to pay is just too damned high.

Anyways, I escaped the hospital and it sure feels good to be back home now. The only place I want to be at less than a hopsital is a prison.

Again, thanks for the well wishes from everybody, not really what I expected

Good to hear you're doing better. No wonder you had such a coniption when B played jazz saturday night.

I recommend you follow my drinking habits of the last 29 years or so. Drink a lot less, but make it better stuff. 6 packs of good beer cost no more than the 30 packs of the swill you are used to. Make the 6 last as long or longer than the 30 and you will be fine.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:40 pm

War Wagon wrote: Again, thanks for the well wishes from everybody, not really what I expected

It's exactly what you expected, you alcoholic liar.

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 · Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:42 pm

War Wagon wrote:While I really like my beer, the price to pay is just too damned high.

What are they charging for rice flavored water these days?

Perhaps you should just stay thirsty... for real. Be well, my friend...

trev · Post by **trev** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 7:49 pm

ucantdoitdoggieSTyle2 wrote: What are they charging for rice flavored water these days?

A $30,000 hospital bill.

Van · Post by **Van** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 8:06 pm

The Seer · Post by **The Seer** » Tue Apr 03, 2012 10:01 pm

Must be hospital season. Had an oral surgeon misjudge the C-4 and spent 3 days with the IV. Antibiotics, steroids, morphine, etc.....lost 10 lbs...

Really starting to feel my age. :|

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:00 am

KC Scott wrote:Glad you didn't die like Screwy

He was from Washington you know

So many things we're learning about him, albeit posthumously.
What a mysterious character.

BSmack · Post by **BSmack** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:35 am

Martyred wrote:
KC Scott wrote:Glad you didn't die like Screwy

He was from Washington you know

So many things we're learning about him, albeit posthumously.
What a mysterious character.

I heard he was from Michigan but was "DC curious."

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:45 am

I think he got ran over on his way to the bathhouse, where he was going to play his newest CD for those with similar tastes.

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:50 am

C'mon guys...this isn't the "Pile On Screwey Thread".

It's Wag's intervention thread. Let's maintain our focus here.

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:53 am

Every thread is a pile-on Screwey thread. Especially the ones he posts in, although it's not a requirement.

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:55 am

Dinsdale wrote:I think he got ran over on his way to the bathhouse, where he was going to play his newest CD for those with similar tastes.

While mopping jizz ?

Dinsdale · Post by **Dinsdale** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:56 am

I seem to recall he lives in DC -- the "Hollywood For Ugly People."

Shlomart Ben Yisrael · Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:56 am

Dinsdale wrote:Every thread is a pile-on Screwey thread. Especially the ones he posts in, although it's not a requirement.

Point taken.

Derron · Post by **Derron** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 12:57 am

smackaholic wrote:
Alcohol doesn't cause pancreatitus. shitty alcohol does.

And there is a difference in the chemical make up of the two types ?

Friend of mine was a hard core drinker for 30 years. It took him at 52, and another guy I know at 54.

smackaholic · Post by **smackaholic** » Wed Apr 04, 2012 1:40 am

Derron wrote:
smackaholic wrote:
Alcohol doesn't cause pancreatitus. shitty alcohol does.

And there is a difference in the chemical make up of the two types ?

Friend of mine was a hard core drinker for 30 years. It took him at 52, and another guy I know at 54.

Just putting two and two together. Wags drinks swill. My buddy from work drinks, or should I say drank swill, til it nearly killed him. Both had pancreatitus.

I drink real beer. My pancreas could kick both their pancreas' arse with my spleen tied behind its back.

Ergo, shit beer causes pancreatitus.

EOS.