hmmmm never really kept track of it but good idea! i will now... i eat 5 small meals a day low fat bleckk i am so sick of fish and chicken i want me a big ol' steak medium rare been almost 3 years since i had one..i still get the pain with the small meals but really it is a hit and miss i can eat chicken dinner tonight and no pain have the same thing 4 days later and it will hurt

omg how true txmudpuppy....I always wondered why I can handle lean turkey or chicken one night and the next night there is pain! There is no rhyme or reason of what we eat at times and that makes it so friggin frustrating.

Amen Diane there really isnt .

I eat 6 small meals per day and still hurt after every meal. I just ate (1) hard boiled egg white and (1) stick low fat mozzerela cheese. Feel like my gut is going to burn straight through my back. However I have found that if I eat a large meal I'll be doubled over from the pain....so the small meals is more tolerable. Food intake is a challenge for all of us here. It's so hard to find anything that won't just run right through me. Taking 16,800 units of Pancreaze meds 6x daily seems to help at least with the trips to the bathroom after meals however. Not sure what meds you are taking but maybe you can ask about Pancreaze...they help me. I think txmudpuppy takes this medications also, if memory serves me correctly.
Not sure if this reponse helps you. Good luck and welcome to the site. Hopefully we will all learn from each other.

mudpuppy I am exactly the same way. I eat the same thing one day and don't get sick then another time it hurts. Really strange how that works.

Transari, your post is fine. Any info is much appreciated. I won't sit here and say I know it all, but I do know quite a lot about my disease as I lived with someone who had it and I saw and learned things. I just like hearing from others and sharing. I am on Creon. I actually just got put back on it. It makes a big difference for sure.

I am the same. Most days I eat many small meals. I don't eat at scheduled times but I try to make sure the meals are small and that I eat ever couple of hours. Whether it's a piece of fruit, or a 1/4 cup of plain oatmeal or plain yogurt.

I am allergic to fish but I sometimes eat eggs or chicken for protein. (Not often). I try to cut my food in tiny tiny pieces. or smash it up, or puree it so that it's easier to digest.

Since my last hospitalization in June I've had huge problems with GERD. So I am on Dexilant which is beginning to help. The doctor says it will take 6-8 weeks for the Dexilant to heal whatever it is that needs to be healed so I'll be in a little pain until then.

Yes, some days just eating anything hurts and on those days I switch to clear liquids.

I'm guessing that's why maybe y'all can eat some things on one day and the next it will bother you. Perhaps on the days it bothers you it has nothing to do with what you ate but more to do with what condition your pancreas or digestive systen is in. I read somewhere that although many of us have an acute attack right after eating it's not usually what we just ate that caused the attack. From what I understand it takes hours to days for the swelling in the pancreas to bring on a full blown attack.

Not sure if that makes any sense to anyone. I tend to ramble sometimes on here during a difficult day.

no need to apologize Lynn...rambling, venting etc is allowed!! Gawd knows I do that enough in here...and it is also when I am not doing well. Hugs to you hon hope you feel better soon.

Diane,

Thank you so much.

You made me smile :)

go on and ramble tropical i enjoy the reading i am sooooooo bored sitting here at home so you and everyone else is my extended family and is good for the soul....

Hi Everyone, I'm a little late to this discussion but I wanted to tell you that for me I get horrible spasms. Most of the time while I am in the middle of eating something, no matter the size, but sometimes is will take it up to 20 mins and then I have the most intense spasms, that make me scream outloud, and then I'm on my knees and crying. These spasms I get can last short peroids of time or can last up to 2 hours.
And I wanted to agree with how frustrating it is to eat something once or twice and then it makes you hurt the next time you eat it! That happens to me all the time!
Hope this helps too

Small frequent snacks seem to work best when I can eat too. (It helps with diabetes also and keeping away big blood sugar swings) And like others have said what I can eat changes often. That is one of the frustrating things about the angry pancreas. One day a food can be fine to eat and the next it seems to trigger an attack.

Typically my diet is liquids, baby food, eggs, rice, yogurt, and bland foods like saltines or noodles. I got a juicer and make my own fruit and veggie juices too. On the rare occasions I do cook real food it's without the good stuff like butter. Oh how I miss butter.

Dairy and meat seem to cause me the most problems and I stay away from those as much as possible.

I do occasionally have a day when I get so frustrated that I say screw it and eat something that I know is bad. Like icecream...never ends well. Pain has been a big motivator though and this doesn't really happen any more.

lol mudpuppy. You know now that you mentioned it, that would be fun to read someones rant. Sometimes they can be very exciting.

yes sir they are and also just as fun to rant to people that understand what we going thru, i really hate moaning and groaning to my wife even when she says she dont care, so i do it here also

Haha. You know, My ex went through the same thing. She even had the tp. And when I would complain a little she would act like it wasn't so bad being as sick as I am. I was like you had the same thing, don't you remember when you were like this? Or where you the only one allowed to be sick? lol She didn't like that.

lol i feel ya