Re enzymes & doctors & pancreatits

[Guest guest]

Thanking all of you who expressed who could check my levels, & where,

etc. ....I think my internist knows next to nothing about this

disease, and I guess that I am just getting tired of always telling

them what to do! Just this last week I refilled my Creon 20's and I

have refills, but the pharmacy called back to say the ins. would not

pay because my doc wrote 1 tab per meal, in otherwords 3 per day. I

have been taking 2 per meal, not unless it's a snack & thank Buddha

that I still have my vegetarian enzymes....and the internist said she

would have to have approval from the G.I.......dah, this is a food

not a pain med....and so I emailed Dr. Hoffman from MUSC, who never

writes prescriptions for me, but does always answer & suggest things,

but I hate this thing where I know more about my illness than the

internist & then they think you are a trouble maker & a know it all!

So I have taken 's advice & ordered Solgar's pancreatic enzymes,

cause when I went to pick up my pres. they had just refilled the same

3 per day, and wanted $123.00 for 100 tabs. I said no thank you &

will call back on the 18th of month when the ins. pays. I cannot

believe they are more than a buck a pill?? We need to find out how to

make these suckers fast! It's pig, porcine, for God sakes, not

gold....what a rip off! Anyway, enough complaining from me, none of

them are helping anyway! Love to you all & stay warm...this from the

woman who still dresses like a Eskimo, also have Raynauds in my

finger tips, all 1O of them, & making a nose warmer! I see a new

rheumy March 1st.....I bet my pancreatitis is going to be from my

auto-immune diseases that my Mother & I carry....the HLA-B27 gene &

scleraderma. Keep u posted.... in ton, S.C.