Good luck Dave, Look forward to hearing you tip the scale at 120 lbs..I am cheering you on every day...WTG...

Cheryl

You can tolerate Ensure plus? Wow! One sip of that, even on a fairly good day and it would put me in a hell of a lot of pain. I went to http://abbottnutrition.com/products/ensure-plus to find Fat # but they seem to be updating their nutritional info... had to find it elsewhere - 11 grams of fat. Ingredients include: Water, Corn Syrup, Maltodextrin Corn, Sodium And Calcium Caseinates, Sugar Sucrose, Canola Oil, Corn Oil, High-Oleic Safflower Oil, Soy Protein Isolate, Soy Lecithin, Natural And Artificial Flavors, Carrageenan, FD&C Red No. 3, FD&C Yellow No. 6, FD&C Blue No. 1.
What do you do when your body cant tolerate the food youre putting in to it?
What do you eat/drink when you feel like crap and need quick calories that are easy to digest?
While I was on TPN the main other source of my nutrition was Ensure Enlive or Boost Breeze (fat free), looking back now I feel that the drinks were making me sicker, not better. I bought case after case of these calorie packed boxes of hfcfs and artificial die and flavors, and spent hundreds of dollars. The Doctors and nutritionist encouraged it. They said You need the calories. I didnt have the energy to cook anything, and my tummy couldnt tolerate food anyway.
What was the first thing Id get to drink after a surgery or being NPO? SODA Why? Because fruit juice irritated my bladder, and just the thought of hospital broth could make me barf.

A light switch in my brain has flipped, and Im not going back. Ive made a conscious effort to pay attention to what Im putting into my body. So as a Crunchy Granola Mountain Girl Im going organic, Non GMO (if it does not say Non GMO it prob has GMOs). Im eating more whole, real foods with the least processing as possible. Ive even started baking my own bread, because then I know whats in it. Best of all Im not having as many pancreatitis flares and Ive actually been able to gain some weight & strength.

I dont mean any offense to you dcockfiels59. This is just my well overdue rant against GMOs, food dies, flavorings, and sweeteners that the FDA say are safe or dont think need to be tested.

- Granola Girl

it is putting me in some pain im on a j tube and dont eat but im told to deal with the pain to get the weight im at 105

I look back at my post and realize that it might have sounded kind of mean. My questions aren't pointed at you, but are the result of having been there... and for all of us suffering from panc issues. I'm finally starting to feel better and I have the energy to start fighting for healthier options on moral grounds. I've been there, and at that point gaining weight was ultimate priority followed by IV vitamins for deficiencies. I gained 20 + lbs and was strong enough to travel for surgery # 24. That's when I truly discovered how powerful MMJ can be... (Another post, another time... if I can remember :-).
I hope you can gain some weight. I'm glad to have found this site... it would have been so helpful back then. I didn't know there were others dealing with the same things as me.

Hang in there. Sending hugs!

yea your post was rude and condcending my brothers been suffering with this 4 over 20 years and he brought himself back from 110 lbs to 165 diff things work 4 diff people

Again, my questions were asked for all of us looking for answers, not to judge but to open up a bit of discussion about an issue that is a life or death mater for those of us suffering with this horrible disease.

I am able to look back on some of the times, and there are multiple, where I have been lucky enough to survive.

All I was doing was trying to provide some info on what I've been through, what you take from it is up to you.

Dave, My sincerest apologies for offending you & anyone else I offended. That was not the intent. It is rare for me to have a day where I am functioning enough to read and process posts let alone write a coherent sentence in response. The thoughts were flowing, and I let them go.
Food- the thing that nourishes us and gives us strength is the very thing that causes our pain.

bldrmtngrl, Funny I just spent 5 days in the hospital hooked up to TPN & three bags of potassium running at the same time time & the first thing the doctor gave me to drink besides a water was Ensure Enlive. It is not just about the nutritional value it is also the calories to keep you going..and yes corn syrup is a good source of calories when you can't get it any other way..

Everyone is different. What works for someone may not work for someone else. For example if I eat granola I would end up back in the hospital because I also have Ulcerative Colitis. And while granola works for you many granola products contain lots of nuts which have lots of fat.

This site is to help encourage our friends in need not knock them down when they find something that finally works for them. This has been a long road for some and a new beginning for others. We are here to give our input without passing judgment..

I was feeling pretty good about being home from the hospital being able to drink Ensure Enlive & down some egg whites or baby rice cereal. But after reading your post I was starting to feel like I was poisoning my body until I realized hey wait, my husband is a controller for a large produce company and I know what chemicals they put on organic foods...Just because it's organic doesn't mean there aren't things like Sulphur, Rotenone, Nicotine Sulfate, sprayed on vegetables & fruit..Gee the things the industry doesn't tell you...Nothing is truly organic unless you grow it yourself & know you put nothing on it..But good luck with that..

I think I'll go have another Ensure Enlive ....And lets continue to encourage to one another not pick on what they eat or drink...Good luck everyone & if anyone can think of anything else besides mash potatoes,baby cereal & egg whites please let me know. Can't think of anything else bland. Maybe I don't want to...