u/Defiant_Project3340

19F Was at the urgent care 4 days ago for upper abdominal pain, A CT was done, found nothing, blood work showed a lipase of 1,900, they discarded, it sent me home with nothing. Last thing I ate before any of this started was a very fatty meal, to be descriptive mcdonalds, 10 meatballs, torta sandwiches, milkshakes, donuts, pizza with stuffed crust, etc (i had similar pains after i ate meatballs before but i didn’t have the meatballs on top of another fatty meal then and the pain went away after a day).

Now?? In a hospital admitted, lipase pushing 3,000. After multiple ultrasounds, an MRI, and more blood tests (lipid panel, calcium etc) they finally found something, “ Mild peripancreatic inflammatory changes involving the tail of the pancreas. The tail does demonstrate diffuse restricted diffusion without a discrete mass.” My gallbladder and bile duct is distended however non hydropic gallbladder. Everything else is fine. The only thing they have on the tables for a diagnosis is a possible auto immune issue or secondary to component of chronic pancreatitis.

The only thing the hospital can do for me is pain medication, iv fluids, no fat diet, basic hospital supportive care things. My only diagnosis so far is idiopathic acute pancreatitis. I’m glad I caught it early but i’ve never had something like this ever happened to me before. But the fact that this is something my body has to try and clear on its own if my autoimmune test comes back normal scares me. I don’t wanna be stuck like this. This is horrible, if my lipase levels continue to rise then i don’t know what to say or do…

I’m an 19F, never drunk before or smoke, but i went to the hospital because i’ve been having slight nausea with a tight feeling in my upper abdomen since 2 days ago, I went to the hospital for this and CT scans came back fine, however my lipase is still high, I had a liquid IV’s put in me, I can keep food and water down. This is extremely usually for me as I never had an issue with my lipase at all. The doctors have no clue what is going on. They aren’t ruling out something is wrong with my pancreas but they have no clue what. I have no signs of an infection because my temperature is fine, my blood pressure however was slightly high (also first time ever my bp was high) of 136/69. I don’t know much about this but from what i’ve read upon this reddit group alot of people had flares, maybe this is the start to something new for me and it’s at its early stages (just like my doctor told me since the CT scans came back normal.)