Anyone ever heard of Sphincter of Oddi?
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| Wed, 12-01-2004 - 10:27pm |
Hi again :-)
I just got done chatting at another website concerning Gerd. One of the things that my general surgeon mentioned yesterday was that he felt that there could be something wrong with the sphincter & he said that an ERCP would most likely give us the answers that we need. Anyway, I mentioned this in the chat & someone brought up Sphincter of Oddi. I looked it up & sure enough, I have a lot of the classic symptoms of it & with it, a lot of people have normal blood work, along with normal u/s & ct. Another thing that I thought was very interesting was that when I was in the ER a week & a half ago, they gave me dialodid for the pain. Within seconds after giving it to me, I was doubled over in severe pain. It made what has been going on worse for the first several minutes after getting it. When reading up on sphincter of ossi this evening, morphine can make it worse. Very very interesting. I am going to mention this to the GI specialist tomorrow & also consult with my general surgeon about it. Any of you ever have this? Any info would be forever greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for being here for me & listening to me gripe all of the time.
HUGS,
Tara S.

Hi and Welcome to iVillage- Taras,
Yes
Hi Tara!
Yes, it does sound like it could be sphincter of Oddi.