Hi, I was diagnosed with IBS 10+ years ago and was treated mostly with Cholesteramine; I believe kow it was a misdiagnosis and was really developing CP all these years; finally the fecal fat tests showed very hi fat steathorrea and I was put on lg doses of Creon in March, Helps some of the time but doesn't really eliminate the bad bathroom episodes: frequent, urgent, bulky, voluminous, greasy, difficult to flush. Often preceded by about 10 minutes of absolutely unbelievable lower abdominal pain; pain so bad I am rooted to the spot and can't move, talk, or even breath until I pass the stool and the pain subsides, Having an endoscopy w/ultrasound on Tuesday. Wish to hell I would test + for Ciliac disease so this agony would have a neat tidy explanation... but no such luck. My weight keeps dropping like a rock, all my clothes hanging on on me like a skeleton-- can't even stand to look in the mirror any more; I dress/undress w/my back to the mirror. I'm 59 and I look 70; so bony I look like cancer patient.

Yep, and it sucks...in the last 12 months I have been in the hospital 6 times. Combo of CP, IBD, and c-diff. Each time I had a colonoscopy, so it was diagnosed not once but 6 times...

I have a wonderful diet of white bread, potatoes, yams, scrambled eggs & bananas...My GI did an experimental procedure flushing my colon with probiotics. Will find out in two weeks if it worked...

Good luck...Speak out, don't be shy...you are the patient. Be persistant and make sure you have a voice in your treatment..