If I felt my sugar was low I would have 6 glucose jelly beans, I wouldn’t take any creon forte, now I will take a 25000 creon (may sound like overkill and probably is) but trust me the jelly beans will give me more problems than the creon will because I have eaten something (never had a problem with creon) I can’t stress enough if you go to the toilet like I did 15 times a day or have constipation regularly or nausea a lot more regularly I found pain tablets worked a hell of a lot better than nausea tablets because in reality our flare ups cause the nausea not our gut. I think the nausea is the worst thing about cp, I didn’t know how important creon forte is for every problem associated with cp. I know it’s a roller coaster ride but the creon will break anything you eat down a lot better and I’m sure you will be healthier. There’s nothing at all that can be done to help us but if we can make life more bearable that’s a good thing. Finally as I have posted before I went down to 45kg I’m now back up to 60 plus kgs not because of pain killers or nausea tablets but because of creon forte and taking enough (trial and error) and in a strange way I’m probably healthier than I’ve been for a long time even before chronic Pancreatitis. Don’t get me wrong I still have bad days but being sick for 1 day for me is a blessing compared to a couple of years ago. Finally remember the British professor’s creon rule 2500creon to 2kg of what you weigh and go higher if you need to I went double before it worked for me and now its worked I’m easing off and I will see how I go. I will post from time to time but if I seem like I’m repeating myself regarding the creon rule it’s because it’s the most important thing I can say.
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I can agree with the creon. I thought in the beginning of my diagnosis that it was giving me pain and nausea but over the years I realized especially now since I too have gained all and more of my weight back that it definitely helps me with digestion. I had to reschedule my e.u.s appointment last month due to being in a flare when I was supposed to go in for the scope. I'm not sure if anyone else is affected by getting a scope while in a flare but it almost always makes my flare up worse and usually follows with numerous bouts of diaherra. I just recently gave the cannibas a break. I was told by my pancreatitis specialist that the cannibas was what was keeping me in a pain loop and I didn't believe that for the longest time. I'm only on day 3 and I tried quitting last year and only made it about a week but something seems different about this time. I read online that wellbutrion is supposed to help people quit smoking and even though I quit smoking cigarettes years ago I kept justifying the cannibas since I got so many benefits from using. I figured it would probably be best for my brain and body and didn't like how dependent I was to it. It's been a rough couple of days but not as bad as I expected honestly. For the past 5 or 6 years I used cannibas for a number of my symptoms and I quit once but I figured even if I could smoke once a month would be a lot better than how I was continously smoking all through out the day. I've been chanting to myself "weed free is the way to be" it's worked so far and even though subconsciously I don't think I was ready to quit at this point and time I realized that it's probably best for me in the long run.
The problem with a flare up is as we know you have to ride it out and no amount of pain killers will help once the flare up has started. I will say this p, I pretty much know now when a flare up is about to happen and I’m pretty sure you would feel it coming on. I haven’t had a flare up for some time but if I think I’m about to have one I take 10mg oxycodone immediately before it starts and I believe if you do that it helps or at least helped me to basically stop the flare ups. It’s taken me 2 plus years to work all this out but I believe I’m controlling cp and it not controlling me so much.
