ERCP is sort of an alternative to surgery. I have stones in the common bile duct which is potentially dangerous so they want to get them out before it becomes an emergency. The procedure is an endoscope which locates the stones and grabs them out. There are risks but bigger risk to leave them as that's when you become really ill with jaundice etc. This is also linked to the bowel,perforating, gallstones are a known complication of the vein feeding I had.
Did I get admitted for rehydration - oK il tell you the story but major moan alert !
I had severe diahorea for about 18 hours, no fun normally but when you have a stoma bag or two in my case its a nightmare. We phoned doctor who was good and advised but said if I developed a temp to phone out of hours - well at 8pm last night I did and I hadn't past water for ages and when I did it was dark brown. Long story short, the out of hours team called an ambulance. They came out and he was the most obnoxious ambulance man ever, totally dismissive of me, said I wasn't dehydrated and you're can't go a&e just for a bug. My husband pointed out that because of the stoma bags I lose a lot more liquid than normal ppl. He was horrible made me feel like a waste of space. He took me in to a&e and whatever he told the staff resulted in me being sent back out to waiting area with all the other folk where I stayed for 3 hours. My husband asked and they said I was low priority, as everyone was based in clinical need. I totally get that but we didn't even call the ambulance! We left at 2am having not seen anyone, my husband went to Tesco to get me water and Paracetomol as my temp was rising.
Feel really bad for not staying but we would have been there all night and I just wasnt up to it.
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Just kill me now.