tiredness and malabsorption

[Guest guest]

Hi Everyone, I have had cp for many years, though first diagnosed

last year after malabsorbing for a decade or more.

I am very grateful to Ian and all who replied to his questions about

tiredness as you have described my symptoms perfectly.

Getting up in the mornings with a cold, empty-feeling stomach and

dull abdominal ache.

By lunchtime going to bed for a couple of hours, totally exhausted

after 3 or 4 hours work.

Wanting to eat comfort food but knowing that it will make you feel a

lot worse afterwards with abdo discomfort, distension, the runs.

Feeling weak, with no energy.

I improved quite a bit after my doctors advised greatly increasing my

enzyme intake. I now take Creon with 40,000 units of lipase per

capsule, about 6 with each meal and 2 with a snack. I only need to

go to sleep in the afternoons occasionally instead of every day.

Still can't manage much comfort food though, and still malabsorb a

few days a week.

I hope you improve Ian and thanks everyone for your wonderful

information on this topic,

Best wishes,

Tony (UK)

[Guest guest]

Hi Tony!

I am so glad to hear that my posts were of some use to you. This is

all new to me and quite frankly, I am eager, if a little fearful to

find out what exactly is going on. My pancreas problems are one of a

long line of symptoms of various types that began last March after

what I think was a serious bout of Infectious Mono (had swollen lymph

glands under my neck for about a month). One thing that HAS been

constant since the beginning however is the abdominal burn/fullness

in the center of my ribs, and most lately in the classic area just to

the left below my left ribs and straight through to the back. It is a

mild dull discomfort rather than a full on kind of torturous pain,

but its always with me now.

Today my stools were a little more or less back to normal, though

they still floated they were the right color and more solid than they

have been. One thing Ive noticed (and anyone can chime in on this),

is that I also tend to get clammy skin and kind of a feverish heat

rushing to my head feeling once in a while, though I take my

temperature and its normal. I do find that many times

these " feverish/clammy " episodes occur just before a bowel movement,

and when I get out of the bathroom I feel more " refreshed " I guess

you could say? Unfortunately I dont experience the kind

of " predictable " fatigue and abdominal distension most do, mine seems

to come and go as it pleases, which with everything else makes me

hope there is not something more sinister goin on inside me, but only

a doctor will be able to tell me that. The thing that I guess bothers

me the most is the fact that I always have these dark circles under

my eyes now which make me look sick, and I shudder to think what they

could be connected to, but once again, I just wont know til I dig

deeper with a professional.

Thanks,

Ian.