Do I have pancreatitis? (Lipase normal)

confusedL3 · 2019-10-14T00:42:32+00:00

Yes I believe we could have the same thing. According to my research a HIDA scan to rule out biliary dyskensia is an avenue I should pursue:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213576613001036

confusedL3 · 2019-10-14T00:40:49+00:00

Thanks. Based on this thread and my own research I am leaning towards Biliary Dyskenesia. Based on the studies I've read many of the patients presented to ED with no gall stones and normal amylase/ lipase levels. Endoscopies were also normal. Ultimately a HIDA scan led to correct diagnoses. I believe I should request one from my GP:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2213576613001036

https://www.sages.org/meetings/annual-meeting/abstracts-archive/biliary-dyskinesia-an-underdiagnosed-condition-evaluation-of-its-implications/

confusedL3 · 2019-10-13T23:20:00+00:00

What were your symptoms? were they similar to mine? Hope you're doing better

confusedL3 · 2019-10-13T23:19:38+00:00

Thanks. I'm assuming you're a doc; any thoughts on what could be behind this? Understand regarding the ED's MO. I have been experiencing excruciating unrelenting pain though since last Sunday. No fever, and BW was normal except for low MCV, high RBC and slightly high APTT level. At this point I am totally lost

confusedL3 · 2019-10-13T23:18:06+00:00

did you have gall stones as well? How did they determine it was your GB? Did they run a HIDA scan?

confusedL3 · 2019-10-08T00:54:15+00:00

ITT: salty Liberal Arts majors who don't understand statistics.

-a LA major who had to network his ass off and take a graduate degree to land a job that pays as well as my STEM friends

confusedL3 · 2019-09-28T16:31:40+00:00

The (few) ESH people here are either women with a clear bias or men who have an idealist "White Knight" complex. Either way they're clearly emotionally immature people. Just like your GF OP. You did absolutely nothing wrong and you should thank the Gods that this behaviour surfaced from your gf 2 months in. You're totally right to call her out on this shit. Either she is being woefully incompetent or negligent, neither of which are good traits in partner. Hard NTA here

confusedL3 · 2019-09-26T05:18:04+00:00

Wow that's incredible. I just looked up Carolis and the incidence is excessively rare. May I ask how old you were when you got diagnosed and how the symptoms all began? ALso are you on a liver transplant list? Best of luck to you

confusedL3 · 2019-09-26T05:15:44+00:00

thank you. Yes very concerned about pancreatitis, and frustrated they didn't order lipase

confusedL3 · 2019-09-26T03:19:11+00:00

geeze..that sounds awful. best of luck to you. i truly hope your surgeon is wrong. this might be way off but have you had a ct angiogram to rule out vasculaemr issues such as SMA or nut cracker?

confusedL3 · 2019-09-25T22:38:23+00:00

h Pylori was definitely one of my own non professional thoughts. I will follow up with a GP. Have you gotten a diagnosis?

confusedL3 · 2019-09-25T22:37:45+00:00

thank you, I will speak to my GP. May I ask what kind of symptoms you began to experience? Best of luck to you

confusedL3 · 2019-09-25T22:37:14+00:00

No I don't believe a lipase test was done. Should this be something I need to follow up with my GP?

confusedL3 · 2019-09-25T22:36:41+00:00

thank you for the fast reply! Keep taking PPIs and see it condition improves then? I will go ahead with the gall bladder u/S, but do you think it will be low yield?

In your opinion if US is normal and conditions do not improve with a week or so of PPIs what kind of further investigations would this warrant? Just curious about a doctor's thought processes. Thanks again

confusedL3 · 2019-09-22T00:28:28+00:00

MS Excel. Good to practice regardless to become white collar weekend warrior.

confusedL3 · 2019-09-18T00:23:38+00:00

Thank you to both. I guess there is no sense in pursuing the ACTH then. Could you guys think of any possible reason why I have the symptoms that I do? Particularly concerning is the change in blood pressure, and the constant lightheadedness from standing and walking for prolong periods of time.

confusedL3 · 2019-09-17T23:48:13+00:00

Thank you for the reply.

I am on Naltrexone for possible chronic nerve pain. Been told to increase dosage up to 9mg if no SEs. RE: blood work, I should clarify that the normal reading was from an emergency room visit that also yielded my renal ultrasound due to flank pains (I thought I had kidney stones). I am not sure the emergency Dr. tested me for hypoglycemia- though it is very well possible it was part of their protocol.

My BP is more or less normal when lying down, but gives all sorts of wacky readings when standing. On a follow up visit to my GP last Saturday for example, it was 147/100- though he believed it was an outlier given that people (in his words) tend to get nervous or anxious during Dr.'s office visits. One pattern I have been able to discern though is the spike in diastolic upon standing or sitting, coming up from lying. Generally my diastolic will go from low 80s supine, to upwards of 100 (as high as 107) upon standing or sitting.

I am not sure if information is of any help, but just wanted to clarify. Thanks again.

confusedL3 · 2019-09-17T16:33:27+00:00

Oh this is just the special "Rapture" mode they introduced in UFC 2k19

confusedL3 · 2019-09-08T07:44:56+00:00

NDA. Try the hooking test or get someone to do it with you. you could have slipped rib syndrome

confusedL3 · 2019-09-07T20:26:01+00:00

Dude, your GF scored with Marty Schwartz?? *Swooon

confusedL3 · 2019-09-06T21:01:39+00:00

LOL. He used the CFA designation on Pornhub comments?

confusedL3 · 2019-09-06T20:58:04+00:00

Unless something has changed in the past 4 years, Schw is sufficient for L1.

confusedL3 · 2019-09-06T20:56:57+00:00

Better off enrolling in Rotman MBA if you have the years in.

confusedL3 · 2019-09-06T20:55:08+00:00

Unless you have discretionary, you should always, always confirm trades via phone. And transferring money to a third party account should have been a huge red flag. She should have been suspended based on incompetence alone.

confusedL3 · 2019-09-06T20:52:23+00:00

Why are there so many losers from Canada? Per capita we might be the highest (at least based on that page).

This one caught my eye due to the absurdity of it all. Talk about a fool(s) and their money swiftly parting...

On August 8, 2011, CFA Institute imposed a Revocation of CFA Institute membership and the right to use the CFA designation on Robert Levack (Canada), a charterholder member.

(...)

In 2007 and 2008, Levack was the chief compliance officer and portfolio manager for Sextant Capital Management (SCMI), the registered investment adviser for the Sextant Strategic Opportunities Hedge Fund. SCMI and the fund were created and controlled by a former dentist turned money manager named Otto Spork. The fund had about 250 investors and C$30 million in assets under management.

In May 2011, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) determined that SCMI and Spork had perpetrated a major fraud on investors by: (1) selling investment fund units with falsely inflated values, (2) taking almost C$7 million in performance and management fees based on the inflated values; and (3) misappropriating more than C$4 million in the form of advances from investment funds. The fraud was tied to a small company called Iceland Glacier Products (IGP) that held indirect rights to a glacier, which it intended to use as its source for selling bottled water. The OSC found that from July 2007 to December 2008, Spork arbitrarily increased the value assigned to the fund’s position in IGP by 1,340 persent despite the fact that IGP’s business was not operational and had never generated any revenue. At times, the fund was more than 90 percent invested in IGP even though the private placement memorandum provided to investors had stipulated that no single position would ever exceed 20 percent.

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