Consequences after Bile Leak

[gnut1212]

I had my gall bl,adder removed on Feb 2. On Feb 5, I suddenly developed extreme pain in my adomden chest and back.. After 2 trips to the ER and a total of 4 days in the hospital on delaudin I had an ERCP proceedure and stent put in for a bile leak. Does any one know if the bile sloshing around my abdomen for 4 days was likely to cause damage? What kind of damage? Are there issues I should watch out for? Thestent was put in on Jan 8th. The stent comes out Feb 6. Is that long enough for the leak to heal?

[chritters]

Can I ask you a question regarding your Bile Leak, Does it come out of you at any given time?? Most people complain of bile coming out when they have a bowel Movement but mine comes out of me when Im out walking mostly, feels like Im sweating and I have to come home and wipe myself like crazy and its so acidy that it burns and itches like crazy!!
When they do  the stent are you put to sleep like a surgury? What is the procedure?

[silversissy]

I had the same sudden severe upper abdominal pain which radiated into my back 12 hours after my gallbladder was removed in mid 2007. Since then I have had 5 more attacks just like it lasting about 30 to 40 minutes. I just started getting information about SOD, Sphincter of ODDI Dysfunction. and I believe that is my problem. These attacks take my breath away causing me to take short breaths while bending over until it passes. When I feel the attact coming on, (and don't ask my why) but I immediately drink (gulp) a tall glass of whole milk down and wait for it to take affect. Like taking a medication for a headache and waiting for it to kick in so the headache goes away.
I'm seeing a homeopathist Dr., who is going to take a liver and pancreatic enzyme level check the next time I have an attack within 12 hours of it. So far from what I have read about these surgery's for it, I see no help for it really. I asked the Dr. if the milk is helping for these attacks and he believes maybe. He said milk is fatty and that fatty opens the sphincter (maybe he meant relaxes) I'm not sure. I describe the pain like a rope being twisted and twisted so tight that it starts knotting, leaving me bent over gasping for breath. Then I start feeling a slow relaxation happening as though the rope is untwisting. I hope this doesn't sound like I'm crazy, but that's what it feels like.
Thanks for listening,
silversissy