u/Tequilaiswater

I’m 32F with severe EPI. I read somewhere that pain is not a hallmark symptom of just idiopathic epi and now I’m worried. I have upper left/center under the rib cage pain. But it’s not excruciating by any means. It feels like trapped gas and occurs after eating. Like today I had breakfast/lunch with Creon and was fine, and I thought a fat free smoothie (with fat free yogurt) would be fine, but it wasn’t. It’s almost like a pain that I can shift, or if I lay on my stomach and the gas comes out I feel better.

In the morning too, as soon as I wake up I have cramping. It feels like a diarrhea type of cramping, except, I can even have normal stools and have this cramping.

I’m not sure if this is all EPI or if something else is going on.

I have a medical issue where I can’t digest fat properly so I need to eat lower fat foods. It doesn’t need to be fat free, just preferably less than 10g of fat per serving.

I’m craving ice cream like crazy.