The below statement is what I have lived with since the beating at 5 years old…

I never did have much in the way of fat on my body and only a couple times in 67 years, have I put on more than 20 pounds… Twice I made it up to 180 at 5ft 7 1/2in tall….

Those were the times I could eat and had no reactions to injesting anything except mild symptoms, except booze… Booze triggered the gerd…

I have medical records back to my teen years and in those records is a history of digestive issues, but I cannot remember anyone checking the pancreas, ever…

They did upper and lower GI’s on Japan and were doing nuclear bone scans every 6 months because of the modeling on my bone… I had GI tests in Washington, Arkansas, New Mexico…

Nothing was found but the hiatal hernia, H-pylori evidence of old infection and that little unkown low grade infection I have had since I went active duty in 77…

So my hope is, when I see the gastro doc, he or she will listen and realize, this isn’t age related to anything but domestic violence and we know, Freda was violent….

I would have never thought to look at the Pancreas for all my digestive issues… But, then again, I didn’t link nerve and muscle damage to blunt force trauma until I had evidence…

What this does right now.??? Makes writing difficult…

I always said, If I can’t tell the story with 100% accuracy, at least get the medical side of it documented, so that no one could throw anything back in the my face and the brothers and sisters I once had, would have no problem doing that… They are christians…

Anyhow, this blurp below is what I live with…

The pancreas does not directly cause Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), but pancreatic conditions—most notably Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency (EPI)—cause symptoms that closely mimic IBS and are frequently misdiagnosed as IBS. [1, 2]

How Pancreatic Issues Overlap With IBS

• Shared Symptoms: Conditions like EPI, chronic pancreatitis, or early-stage pancreatic disease cause abdominal pain, cramping, bloating, gas, and diarrhea—all of which overlap heavily with diarrhea-predominant IBS (IBS-D). [1, 2, 3, 4]
• Misdiagnosis: Studies show that a notable subset of people diagnosed with IBS-D actually have underlying EPI (with some research estimating roughly 5% to 7% of IBS-D cases involve undiagnosed pancreatic insufficiency). [1, 2]
• Coexistence: It is also possible to have both IBS and a pancreatic condition at the same time. [1, 2]

Key Differences Between EPI and IBS

• Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency (EPI): Happens when the pancreas fails to make or release enough digestive enzymes (like lipase and protease) to break down food. This leads to malabsorption, weight loss, and characteristic oily, pale, or foul-smelling stools (steatorrhea). It is diagnosed via a simple stool test measuring fecal elastase-1 and treated with Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy (PERT). [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS): A functional gastrointestinal disorder driven by altered gut-brain interactions, gut motility issues, and visceral hypersensitivity rather than a lack of digestive enzymes. [1]

I remember…

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