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@7judy2

Thank you. That’s what I thought. I asked my gastroenterologist if we should test for celiac since I’m having a colonoscopy in January but she said she doesn’t go into the small intestine but she ordered two blood tests instead. I read and told my doctor that I read that if a person has been avoiding gluten then the test won’t be accurate. She ignored my comment and I did the blood test anyway.

I have slowly enlarging small BD-IPMN with double ducts dilated and enlarging. Now I have EPI and for the last 3 years pain/discomfort in upper right quadrant and my liver enzymes are fluctuating between high and normal. I also had Uterine sarcoma cancer stage IV in 2006. Knowing all the above is making me feel that I could possibly have cancer but I wanted to check whatever other possibilities could be causing some of these things. I guess celiac probably isn’t very likely in my case.

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Are you taking a pancrealipase like Creon, Zenpep, Pancreaze or others for the EPI? If so, are you finding it has helped in normalizing your GI tract functioning or are you having issues with diarrhea and characteristics of the stool that are associated with EPI?