Life After Whipple Surgery. Is 10 15. This affects how your body digests food which means what and how you eat may be completely upended.
No one in kathleen o day s new york hometown could figure out why she was experiencing stomach and back pain vomiting and jaundice. I also started taking drugs for my digestive system during chemo and to date. Depending on where your cancer is located different parts of your digestive system may be removed and rearranged.
This procedure usually done for the treatment of various cancers used to have a high mortality rate but through recent advances is now a fairly safe procedure that can extend the life expectancy of the patient.
I had to learn how to regulate my blood sugar after the whipple. If you follow your doctor s post op instructions carefully and watch for signs of complications early in your recovery you can get back to a more normal life relatively quickly after a whipple procedure. Is 10 15. Enjoying life after whipple procedure for pancreatic cancer.
