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Thank you! This is really helpful.
So my update here is that a stool test came back with extremely low pancreatic elastaze 1 level (31) and a high amount of Klebsiella oxytosa, which is fairly correlated with ankolyzing spondylitis. Next steps are to essentially rule out some bad stuff like pancreatic cancer and chronic pancreatitis with an ultrasound or CAT scan and simultaneously treat the klebsiella and what looks like SIBO. Doc is checking HLA-B27, amylase and lipase, rheumatoid factor too, so I should have some answers soon.
I’m glad I found a doc to take my symptoms seriously, no one else would’ve ever detected that my exogenous pancreatic function was cratered. Most doctors make it clear they either don’t care or that trying to deal with chronic issues is like witchcraft. I feel like I was living with mild symptoms for years and all of a sudden they’re much larger, and if docs cared to take me seriously back then I wouldn’t be in this situation. I worry I’m about to cross the rubicon into chronic illness or serious acute illness and I just want to feel like I have agency to fix things.
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