First a little background for those of you who don’t know. The FDA, being the nice government organization that they are, recently granted approval to only certain enzymes which we CFers need for our pancreas’s to help digest food. According to my doctor anyway, Ultrase (the enzyme I took) never did any of the required trials, which is why it was not granted the honor of FDA approval. What does this mean? The CFers who have come to love and depend on their Ultrase must find a new P.I.C (that’s Partner in Crime for the un-hip crowd) as insurance companies prefer to cover FDA approved drugs. Alas, I must leave the enzyme I have taken for years and years, the one I have carried around in purses, wallets, backpacks, and pockets. The enzyme who’s bottle rests in not only in my heart and in my own medicine cabinet, but the cabinets of friends or family too, for it goes wherever I go. The enzyme who has blessed my mucus-clogged pancreas with the ability to digest and absorb the many treats and eats which I consume. I kind of have a little attachment to my Ultrase, I sort of don’t want to let go.
But Ultrase has become that old love who you thought was everything you needed until you found someone new, someone like a Zenpep or a Creon who is even nicer and more perfect. I didn’t even know what I was missing out on all these years. I have just tried 2 new enzymes, first Creon and now Zenpep and (to spare the gory details for non-CFers and non-nurses [who by the way LOVE those gory details *coughh*mom*cough*]) I will just say, they work A LOT better. Where has my little buddha belly gone after I have eaten?! I’ll tell you, its gone. Cause Ultrase is so-last-year and Zenpep is W-H-E-R-E I-T-S A-T! Its a lot easier to let go when you have something new and improved that works better for you. I am oh so sorry my little Ultrase former-love, though you will always remain in my heart and my memories, I regret to inform you that you are being let go, this relationship is over, and Zenpep and I are in love.
