Question for my fellow Creonistas...

[eggyg]

Gastric dumping syndrome, steatorrhea ...It's all good clean fun😱

Us folk without any pancreas (need a snappy name for this) are pretty rare beasts, though becoming more common.

Ha! Maybe we should have a competition to find a snappier name. I'm going for p-less! Then again on second thoughts....Answers on a postcard please! 🙂

 

[mikeyB]

Pancaway? Nopanc? Depancred?

 

[anniehi]

Pancquit? PancAWOL? Pancretired?

 

[Matt Cycle]

Yes indeed, but recently the higher dose Creon capsules have been found to have variability in their stated dosage, both higher and lower. It is being sorted, but apparently, and I kid you not, there's a shortage of pigs.

Reading through all this I certainly don't envy you folk who have to take this. 😱 I remember seeing something somewhere about a non-pig derived pancreatic enzyme therapy. I've just googled it and it's called Sollpura. If it worked I suppose it would solve issues caused by any shortages. Have you heard any news on this?

 

[mikeyB]

Pancrid?

Reading through all this I certainly don't envy you folk who have to take this. 😱 I remember seeing something somewhere about a non-pig derived pancreatic enzyme therapy. I've just googled it and it's called Sollpura. If it worked I suppose it would solve issues caused by any shortages. Have you heard any news on this?

Its been around for a few years. It wasn't given a licence by the FDA in the US because it offered no benefit over Creon and it's analogues, and in fact was found to be less effective by up to 25%. That was in 2011. Since then the licence has been passed between various drug companies to try to get it to work better, which would be boon to vegetarians (and pigs) since it is made from fermenting genetically modified microbes. Not until the FDA give it a licence will it become available here, and it will be more expensive than Creon, as are all such fermented products such as human insulin.