Living with EPI: Managing Digestion and Creon Drug Costs

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Learn about living with Exocrine Pancreatic Insufficiency (EPI), managing maldigestion symptoms, and finding ways to lower the high cost of Creon prescriptions.

Living with EPI: Managing Digestion and Creon Drug Costs

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Today I was diagnosed exocrine pancreatic insufficiency. I was prescribed creon which will cost $1500 a month. I need an overview of this disease and any and all information about living with. Other than this urgent, need to use the bathroom immediately after eating and the lack of many vital vitamins and nutrients in my lab reports my actual stomach and intestines are in very good shape. Bonus: any tips in acquiring the medication’s that I need at a reduced cost would be very helpful 

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