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Hello, I am a caregiver for my husband
Who has been recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The surgeon has said he feels this is completely removable doesn’t think a Whipple is required and said it is about a 2 cm tumour. My husband is experiencing greasy orange stool which I know I have read on here others have had. I want him to go to family dr tomorrow and get pancreatic enzymes. I got some for him from health food store but they don’t seem to be helping much with gas and diarrhea. I’d love to hear from others who have been diagnosed, are caregivers or have had any surgery for this cancer.
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If you go to creon website you can get it ay a discount. We've gotten 2 months worth at 5 dollars per month instead of 90. They also give you multivitamins.
Hi
I have stage 4 PDAC. My bowel movements and gas vary quite a bit day to day but what is fairly constant is diarrhoea. I have found gastro-stop hasn’t really helped and for a few nights this week I had to get up 4 times to pass wind (I could have driven a wind turbine!). I got up so as to avoid waking up my wife..
I found that Gasbusters (great name) helped and managed to get a reasonable night’s sleep last night.
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Hi @cindee60, I moved your message to this introductions discussion so that you can meet both people living with pancreatic cancer and people who are caring for other family members with pancreatic cancer, like @search4healing @natalex and @nasagia36.
@treadmillann was also talking about looking for enzyme replacement options. See her message above. You may wish to add your questions to this discussion:
– Pancreatic enzyme replacement https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/pancreatic-enzyme-replacement/
Cindee, I can imagine that you are feeling very alone with this diagnosis. I'm glad that you have the support of others here on Connect. It's great that your husband is a good candidate for the Whipple surgery. That's good news. When is he scheduled to have the surgery? What questions do you have or what concerns you the most?