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Can a person live without a pancreas?
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i'm not a doctor but you can live without your pancreas, but will have to take insulin shots mostlikely daily as a replacer for the pancreas function.
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My Pancreas and vile duck r swollen and I'm getting extreme pain in my back and chest. And puking and heartburn and about 25 pounds of water weight. I exercize and take naproxen and tramadol for pain and its helped some my family Dr. Sent my xrays and blood work and scopes to a specialist and he says I don't need surgery but I'm in a lot of pain and its been a yr already just to find out what's wrong and i cannot take it anymore what can I do
I don't c a Gi until June 26 2012
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This is a Hepatitis C forum. You may want to try addressing you question to a doctor at this site

.http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Gastroenterology---Digestive-Disorders/show/107



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Basically no.  Pancreatic cancer for example has a very, very low survival rate and my father died of it.
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