Karen Andrews, 62, from Calne, in Wiltshire, takes Creon – a pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy – and without it is unable to digest her food properly.<\/p>\n
Following an operation for a pre-cancerous pancreatic cyst in 2020, she said supplies had been erratic, particularly last year when at one point she was unable to secure any at all.<\/p>\n
Although the situation had improved recently, when she went to collect her latest prescription her usual strength was unavailable.<\/p>\n
She was given a lower dose, meaning she now has to take seven tablets a day instead of three.<\/p>\n
“It’s a logistical problem for me to plan things on a normal daily basis,” she said.<\/p>\n
“Without the Creon, I haven’t got the ability to digest my food properly. I would just have diarrhoea and probably waste away.”<\/p>\n
According to Pancreatic Cancer UK, many patients are currently experiencing difficulties obtaining Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Karen Andrews, 62, from Calne, in Wiltshire, takes Creon – a pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy – and without…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526033,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,85,46,482],"class_list":["post-526032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}