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Wow....and yikes! Sounds like you had it a whole lot worse than I do at present.
I've learned that there are some things I can eat that put you at no risk of any form of attack, so I'm sticking with those until i can have it removed. And speaking of that....
I saw the surgeon today who agrees that it should come out as soon as possible. He informed me of the risks of the stones blocking the duct, which he didn't make sound nearly so unpleasant as you described, though he certainly said it was to be avoided. Anyway, now there is the insurance bureaucracy to go through, which can take up to two weeks according to the people at the surgeon's office. I'm sure that's worst case scenario, so I'm hoping (fingers crossed) for approval this week and the procedure next week. They said it would undoubtedly be done within three weeks at the latest, so it looks like I'm goign to be aating a whole hell of a lot of cheerios and applesauce until then.
And DP....wow. That must have sucked. With all I dealt with during the worst of my achalasia, I have sort of decided that for me surgery as early as possible is the way to go. All the natural stuff I tried for that - pht. Not much relief. But one attack per week????? I thought I was going to die with the one major on I had! Yikes.
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