Peptamen, was: Oh, and I'm new...sort of to Margaret & Eileen

[Guest guest]

Margaret,

Please stick around, I don't find you grouchy at all!! Thanks for the

info on Peptamen. I wanted to add that it's also given to patients

who suffer from malabsorption.

My GI prescribed it for me when I had lost so much weight and couldn't

seem to gain.....so I had to buy a case of it because that's the only

way the pharmacy would supply it. $149 mistake. Unfortunately, I

just couldn't tolerate the taste of it, and had a bad flare after

drinking it, so I gave up and had 3/4 of a case of it sitting on the

porch until it expired. Couldn't even give it away.

Given through a tube it might have been great, but since I was still

walking around, (more like the walking dead), he didn't think of tube

feeding!

Did you use the vanilla flavored variety or the unflavored? Hats off

to you that you are able to drink it raw!

With love, hope and prayers,

Heidi

Heidi H. Griffeth

www.pancassociation.org/anthology#Heidi.html

Bluffton, SC

SC State & SE Regional Representative

Pancreatitis Association, International

Note: All comments or advice are based on personal experience or

opinion only, and should not be substituted for professional medical

consultation.

[Guest guest]

I'm so sorry you got stuck with a case of that expensive stuff, thank

goodness my dietician had some samples for me to try to start with to

see if I could tolerate it. I did both the vanilla, and the plain

mixed with the flavor packets. The flavor packets really help. And the

fact that I have some loss of sense of taste/smell due to the Sjogrens-

LOL!

I know that walking dead feeling. Last year this time I could not even

walk across Walmart at one point and got stuck in the middle of the

store. Ended up sitting on the floor till someone could get the

wheelchair and come get me. I just had no energy at all. Ended up

using the wheelchair for a while in there...

Margaret

Thanks for the

> info on Peptamen. I wanted to add that it's also given to patients

> who suffer from malabsorption.

>

> My GI prescribed it for me when I had lost so much weight and

couldn't

> seem to gain.....so I had to buy a case of it because that's the only

> way the pharmacy would supply it. $149 mistake.