Hello there, I’m so sorry about your situation and about how your doctor reacts. I know that there are a lot of my colleagues that doesn’t fulfill its function. I’m a doctor and I don’t think that you were rude, it’s okay I know very well what you feel and I feel sorry for you – I think that it is a normal reaction to be angry when you have a doctor that doesn’t want to help you. I’ll try to explain you something about your condition but firstly I would like to say that you don’t have to worry about nothing this is not a complicated thing, it requires some time and a different life style but believe me, I know for sure that everything will be okay. Autoimmune pancreatitis it’s a type of chronic pancreatitis that can be treated with corticosteroids. Don’t worry about this word there is a lot of information out there that you can find and read on the internet. I don’t know about your situation in particular but usually it’s manifested with a intense abdominal pain weight loss and sometimes nausea. If you ask yourself about the causes you have to know that this is because of the body immune system that attacks the body tissue. Usually I recommend all my patients to start with changing their diet plan and to start to take care more about the immune system. There are a lot of diseases that are linked with the immune system and if you don’t take an adequate care about your system you can receive a lot of complications. Now, that you just find it it’s okay, if you would start your treatment you would be able to avoid this complications, otherwise the complication will take place and will become even more difficult to treat your disease. What can happen? The autoimmune pancreatitis can cause a lot of variety of complications but I think that I’ll share with you the most frequent ones. Firstly there can happen a thing called pancreatic insufficiency. This is the most elevated form of autoimmune pancreatitis and start with different symptoms that you have never experienced before, such as diarrhea, metabolic bones disease and some organism deficiency such as vitamin or/and mineral deficiency. This happens because your pancreas is not able to produce some essential enzymes and your body starts to lose essential vital elements that our body needs in order to work in the better mode.
The second thing that can happen is known by everybody, it is called diabetes. I think that you maybe know that another function of our pancreas is to produce insulin, when the pancreas is damaged and is not treated in time it can cause such a thing and of course when this happen you start to need to use some oral medication or insulin in order to fulfill your needs. I don’t think that any of us what to have something like this, that’s why I extremely recommend you to start your treatment in time, you should do it as soon as it is possible in order to avoid the things that I described above and believe me, without a proper treatment they WILL start to appear. But secondly you have to remember that you have to stay calm and to avoid being worried, I don’t think that it will be okay to add some stress or worries to your situation, stress makes everything works and I haven’t heard about any beneficial effects of stress, yet, I’m a doctor. There is nothing so serious to be afraid of something or to be stressed. The only thing that I think that you have to do now Is to find another doctor, if this one is really a bad doctor that doesn’t care about your situation then I think that it will be better to find a good doctor that will be able to guide you and to support you during the recovery. Even if it would cost something, better spend some money now and treat it now, otherwise you will have to spend even more.
Hope that you will get well soon, and don’t forget to update us about your situation; if you have some other question I’m here to help you with everything I can.
