Good morning Jack. The main duct from the liver passes through the head of the pancreas and joins the pancreas enzyme duct. The pancreas enzymes are needed to digest fats. My tumor blocked the pancreas enzyme duct first and this caused steatorrhea. You can do a search for that to see if your symptoms match. You can also do a search for pancreas anatomy to see the duct from the liver and gallbladder and how it joins the pancreas enzyme duct. My gastro doc's were at a complete loss as to my symptom cause and I had to figure it out myself. Only way I could leave my house was to not eat anything for at least 12 hours until I figured out to have a fat free diet. I took packages of frozen veggies and added a can of diced tomato's for a soup. Fat free yogurt with unsweetened applesauce. There was more I just can't remember now. Mostly just fruits and veggies. Creon is one of the more common scripts of pancreatic enzymes to take to help with this. It seems that it is very common for people of age to have the pancreas slow down greatly producing these enzymes. And that pancreatic cancer is rare. So much so that when I was in the hospital and had the ultrasound showing the mass and duct expansion that the gastro was still flat saying no cancer it was just that I was an old guy. They had previously refused to check me for cancer on multiple occasions when I asked. A CA19 was done in the hospital. It was 1567. I did have weight loss and the steatorrhea. It seems though that that could have been caused by just being an old guy. If as you say there is no change in your cyst in the head of your pancreas then you may have something else going on. My GI doctor that did the stint said he did fine some gall stones and was able to clear those. So that can be something that may have happened.

Try the no fat diet to see if the GI issues go away. That should tell you if you are having a problem with pancreatic enzymes. And you can let your GI doctor know.

This is just my understanding of what went on with me and I am not a doctor. I am glad you liked my post. I have had more than my share of health issues over the years and way too much pain as a result. At this point I am on palliative care just trying to be as pain free as I can. I read a joke some time back that went something like this. When ask how are you doing. I would say like that guy who fell off the top of the Empire State Building. Every floor he passed people would hear him say "so far so good". I woke up again today and am fairly pain free. To be pain free I would need to take the next strongest pain medication that would prevent me from driving. I am not ready to give that up yet. I just need to see what I can do with today. I did good with yesterday as you and another liked my post. I have another day to spend time with my family and tell them I love them.

Good luck to you with this and I hope that it is just a quick and easy fix with a gall stone or something even more minor.