Lovin' Cleveland

I hope from the date of this post that you had a successful ERCP. I am sitting here typing, in the same pain that I had 3yrs ago when I too had to go through an ERCP. First, let me say, I have had many surgeries since my 2002 RNY and have never had a question or concern about the breathing tube during surgery, so I hope that went okay for you. My gallbladder was removed in 2006; I wish it was told to weightloss individuals that your gallbladder will go bad when you have a significant weightloss, but, nope, that's the worst pain EVER and I have had children, knee surgeries, etc. That 1-10 scale on pain a GB is a 12! OK, so the ERCP. I started getted pain in the upper right quadrant and it went through to my back. Doctors to specialists and basically got a "suck it up buttercup." Well, then the screaming run to the ER and the Liver counts were off the charts. No doctor wanted to touch my case. Finally, the head of gastro at the University in town said sure, I'll do it, but it it complicated. First, they put a feeding tube into my original bypassed stomach. A 45min procedure that took over 4hrs. Apparently our stomachs kinda shrink massivelyand turn hard and leathery. And then was hospitalized a couple of days for that. The stomach tube then had to heal and while it was healing I had to drain the bile out of the tube into water bottles and throw away. It was my own personal nightmare. Once that was done and I had the ERCP done through the feeding tube over to the liver ducts.....that tooks less than an hour and that evil feeding tube was removed at the same time. All and all, it took over 6 weeks time. Well.....I am very unhappy to say that the same darn pain is back and I am hoping that in the past 3yrs medical technology has improved. Perhaps you can give me few pointers on how to direct the doctors.....I don't want to go through that nightmare again; but I am tired of this horrible pain.