overheard my doctors talking

[kimmy1994]

i had some nausea and pain and went to the hospital. he(e.r. doc) said i had some enlargement in my common bile duct to go see a specialist so i went and had a hydascan and i overheard the technician say to the doctor "i cant get the dye to fill up into her gallbladder it will fill up 1/2 way and then nothing. so after that i had a ercp and got acute pancreatitis i was in hospital for 7 days.
3 years later had gallbladder taken out in 2004. every thing went fine....until last year i started having
rt upper quad pain i cant wear a bra with wire because it hurts it does not hurt all the time but it comes and goes. i'm trying to get pregnant and i have been taking fertility meds (3 rounds) each time  i do a round about 6 days into it i start having severe pain i am wondering does hormones (fertility meds) have any bearing on oddi of sphincter dysfunction i have read all the syptoms for oddi and it seems like i have all the symptoms

[Jaybay]

Both.  Birth control pills, fertility drugs, and changing hormones in peri-menopause can cause bile to thicken and make it more difficult to pass to the small intestine.  That's one of the reasons that the typical gallbladder patient is "Female, Fertile (or fat) and Forty".  

[kimmy1994]

thank you for your response. It has been a big help. but i do have a question ? did you mean the fertility hormones can thicken up the bile or just anything in general can make sludge?? thank you ....kimmy

[Jaybay]

I don't think the hormones directly impact the functioning of sphincter of oddi, but it sure can thicken up your bile.  Even though you no longer have a gallbladder to store bile, it can get thick and sludgy enough that it just can't flow properly to the small intestine.  It's certainly worth talking about to a gastro doc, but you'd be looking at another ERCP.  I'm really sorry you got the pancreatitis from the last one.  Absolutely miserable, isn't it?