Guest guest Posted November 9, 2004 Report Share Posted November 9, 2004 Zoie, I also am rarely able to link any specific foods to my attacks. The one food that has about a 95% chance of causing an attack is beef so I have given it up for good. So many times I will think we have finally found the magic combination (right amount of pancreas enzymes, other meds, and diet) only to be disappointed again. I had a pretty bad attack on Christmas night. I had been doing everything I knew to do. I was so careful with my diet, made sure I got rest, and so on. When the attack started and woke me from a sound sleep, I just cried. I told my husband I really thought I'd found the answer - just be very careful about every bite of food, take my meds, don't overdo, etc. I was devastated to end up in the ER on Christmas night after I had done everything I knew to do as well as everything the doctors said to avoid an attack and there I was having a major one again! For me to break down and cry about having an attack was very unusual. I typically take it in stride, but on Christmas night I guess I had just reached my limit. That was sort of a turning point. That was about 6 months after I was diagnosed with chronic panc (prior to that they just called it recurring acute panc). I had to accept the fact that no matter how good I tried to be, there were going to be times that I was going to have attacks of horrible pain, nausea, and vomiting. That's probably one of the more frustrating parts of this disease - no matter what we do, no matter what the doctors do, sometimes we are just going to be hit from nowhere with an attack. Makes it kind of hard to have a life. The only thing we can do is to do the best we can to be careful about our diets and then just take it one day at a time. Sometimes that feels pretty hard to do. It seems I am forever disrupting the lives of my family. They are all so good to me and they never complain but it does get old being so unreliable because I never know from day to day or even hour to hour when I'll be hit in the gut with that invisible sledgehammer or actually I think it's an invisible knife that someone just twists and twists inside my gut! W ------------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by PCLNET, and is believed to be clean. Visit www.pclnet.net and get a 3Mbps cable modem! ------------------------------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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