To and Tammy

[Guest guest]

Hello!

Thanks for the reminder about Vhrissy and the difficulties of

posting! I'd forgotten she mentioned that!

I'm not too bad at the moment, thank you. Creon works very well for

me in controlling thelower-abdominal malabsorption symptoms. I don't

eat fried food or anything greasy and I find certain foods such as

pickles and some fruits (eg. strawberries) cause me problems. Other

than that, I eat fairly normally at the moment. The upper-abdominal

pancreatic pain still hits me when least expected but it is

definitely going through a much better phase just now than it was

between 2000 and 2003 when the severity and frequency of the pain

had greatly increased again. Whether that improvement is due to

Creon, lack of any alcohol at all, lower-fat diet, chance(!!) or

simply a combination of all these factors, I just don't know! How

long it will last I simply don't know! It has made me decide to stay

on in work for another year (I'm 58) unless there's a deterioration

again over the next couple of months. BTW, I have hereditary

pancreatitis and have had severe abdominal pain episodes of one kind

or another since I was 5 years old with my worst stage so far

(frequent flare-ups and constant pain and diarrhoea) in the mid to

lat 1980's. My definitive diagnosis came last year, 53 years after

my first attack!!

I don't repeat my story to be self-centred but just in case anybody

new tunes in and might find something which relates to their own

experience.

I was deeply shocked when i got my diagnosis but now there is, to an

extent, relief in knowing what this mystery illness in my life

actually is. PAI has helped me enormously both in getting hold

quickly of the information I need and in giving much-needed personal

support.

Good luck to both of you with your present difficulties. If I can

help in any way please let me know. I am so very grateful to the PAI.

Fliss