I don’t drink, either.
My docs said it was the Gall Bladder dropping sludge on to the Pancreas, building a stalagmite pseudo-cyst on the Pancreas, compressing the stomach into golf ball size. The stomach, r/s and back pain was excruciating, and I was on Oxys for months. I stopped that stuff when the pain stopped.
They wanted to remove the GB, but pseudo-cyst was size of a grapefruit, and blocking access to the GB. They’ve drained it thru 15 Endoscopies w/ pigtail stents thru stomach and into cyst.
Only PSU-Hershey performs that op/procedure, so I’m their GI patient, and have another Endoscopy coming in March. 5mos since last one in Nov ‘18. They don’t feel it’s necessary to remove GB, w 1 stone, and have widened the ducts strictures.
PSU-Hershey is an amazing place, and I’m lucky to be alive after what I went thru here at York (PA) Hospital.
I had my own bad experience when I died two days after open heart surgery in the intensive care ward when they rolled my over in bed to do an x-ray and I threw a pulmonary embolus.
I stopped breathing and my heart arrested. They had to cut me back open and unwire my breast bone so the surgeon could hand-massage my heart back to beating again in normal sinus rhythm. Took him 8 minutes before the heart started beating on its own. He told my later, that he would have given up after 10.
I was a mess. Instead of a planned 5 days in the hospital after a quadruple bypass and valve repair, I was laid up in intensive care for 5 weeks. Two blood transfusions. My legs were like jelly when I was finally discharged. I could hardly breath. It took me over two years to come back so that I am pretty fit again.
At 71 years of age, I am lucky to be alive and count my blessings everyday that I survived that near death experience.
Good luck to you and prayers for a full and speedy recovery.