I was diagnosed in 2000. I had been having bouts with "heart burn". One night I had the pain and was vomiting none stop. Off to the ER I went. They told me I would not be leaving the hospital with my gallbladder. They gave me codiene for the pain-got hives. I kept getting worse. Had a cat scan done and they found I had pancreatitis. I had very high fevers-couldn't eat or drink(not even ice)-had a NG tube down but continued to vomit. I was only aware of a few periods of time of what was happening. I do remember being in a fog and having a few doctors standing around my bed and telling me that I was diabetic-I kept telling them no-I had just been tested and was NOT diabetic. I was in the hospital for 3 weeks then sent home for 2 weeks to recuperate from the pancreatits. Still nothing to eat or drink-I was being fed via TPN. Then I went back to the hospital to have my gallbladder out. One year later I had a pancreatic pseudo cyst-I had to have that surgically removed-3 more weeks in the hospital. One year after that my bile duct became obstruced. Once again I was back in the hospital to have a stent put in. Thats just the highlights of those 3 years. Thats my story and I'm sticking to it. Beth
