Yes, I did have four ERCP‘s, but the first one cleared my symptoms up completely!! My symptoms were very unusual to say the least.. For approximately three months before my first ERCP, I felt like I was getting eaten from the inside out by red ants!! Have you seen the old western movie where the fellow was tied down by an ant pile and that was his torture well, that was mine! My liver count was through the sky. They kept looking at my eyes for yellow jaundice, which I had none! They were totally puzzled. At any rate, the first ERCP, the fellow went in, found my der-Vader valve basically clogged up..he burned it open I gushed out fluids. He said it was like getting buried in fluids, and from that moment on all of my symptoms, including all of those red ants went away.
As far as I was concerned, they had fixed me completely. He took biopsy on that ERCP had to go back in three more times probing and getting biopsies because nothing was coming back with any cancerous tissue until the last one the fourth one which I asked to have a piece of that sample biopsy sent to Johns Hopkins.
Johns Hopkins came back and says slight level one pancreatic. And so from that point on the Endo surgeon said go down and see Eric Kortz and get a Whipple.!!