need help please

[amanda41501]

i recently had a celiac plexus block for chronic pancreatitis. since then i have had some major problems such as low back pain, numbness and pain in my right leg and foot, and bleeding from my kidneys. are these complications of this injection? can't get answers anywhere!!

[Tootsie]

Who are you asking? What does the doctor who performed the procedure say? You are entitled to have your questions answered. Do you have other conditions that aggravate the chronic pancreatitis?

However, you do not indicate what kind of health care system you receive your care from. It is difficult to give you advice without more details.

Keep in mind that people from all over the world post on these forums and some have national health care and others, like the US have a private form of care or insurance. Cheerio.

[amanda41501]

the doctor that performed the injection was a pain management doctor. he released me from his care after this injection because i mentioned the symptoms that i was having. my primary doctor keeps sending me to different doctors to treat the symptoms, but i think they need to find the cause. the specialiast that sees me for my pancreas says that these symptoms are not realated to my pancreatitis. i am currently seeing a different pain management doctor, but noone seems to listen to me. not sure where to turn to next.

[Tootsie]

Have you asked your primary care doctor what your underlying diagnosis is?
It he say's "pancreatitis," ask him what has caused it. Sometimes pancreatitis is associated with poor gall bladder functioning. Cheerio.

[joy]

Since my daughter is in hospital for several things the biggest being from pancreatitis, I suggest you do a google search right from BT like I did. I'm sorry you may have already done that but I did not know how serious this can be. Even fatal. Daughter has seziures as well but we began to suspect more than that was going on so kept her ourselves overnight to watch her. She had been to ER three times in last month and sent home each night. She was in ICU for three days and is still in a provate room. I think in my looking at the information I have noticed all of the symptoms you have listed EXCEPT the numbness and pain in right leg and foot in my search. Hope you find some help.

[amanda41501]

am sorry to hear about your daughter.pancrea**** can be fatal. i have had chronic pancreatitis for 2 years.i've had multiple ercp's and stints in the pancreas and bile ducts. i saw a doctor yesterday that is doing a ct on my kidneys. he seems to think that maybe the dr. that put the injection in my spine may have punctured the kidney. that may account for the numbness in my leg. do they know what triggered her pancrea****?

[Boopers]

Hi Amanda,
Wow, I am so sorry you are having these problems. It sure is suspicious that your pain doc that did the injection, dropped you after you told him of the problems you are having since the injection. Makes a person go hhhmmmmm!!!
I do hope you find out what your problems are and get help for them.
Good luck to you,
Linda

[joy]

Amanda, if you wre asking about my daughter and her pancreatitis and the cause, well the answer is multiple reasons. And thanks for asking. She is adopted and was held until she was seven months old because of something wrong with her stomach we were told. She has always had problems. Also after losing a lot of blood having an 8 pound child, even more with seizures being added. I had always told my children and even my mother when she depended upon me for help "I am not good with stomach problems. There can be so many reasons." I guess we all need to educate ourselves some. I just go to doctor when it gets bad. My daughter did not have a clue this time that it was anything so wrong. Not major pain or anything, this time. She has had ulcer when a teenager, etc. but never did we suspect this. I found out how serious it can be only when she was diagnosed.

So try and stay as healthy as possible. My daughter's husband and his family once griped to her so much because she kept losing weight that it liked to drove her bonkers! Her seizure medicine causes her eating to be different as well. Come to find out, she does NOT need to eat much at once anytime. A thing she was doing herself until everyone else thought they were doctors and started telling her what to do. In other words, you just can't be too safe. Please keep after any doctor that you can to help you with that numb leg and foot. The pain is not normal and numbness is scary. I have both but I have been diagnosed and have a reason (no not reason, but a name for it) for mine being that way. Mine is idiopathic peripheral neuropathy. Here is hoping yours is gone even as you read this long post.

And I also read that pancreatitis can be idiopathic as well. Very frustrating to not know a reason for something. I'll be checking back to see if you improve. ;)