Lose form data when combining PDF fillable forms

I would like to combine into one PDF document two completed form-fillable PDFs. The PDF forms have identical fields, but the data collected on the forms (from different users) is different, of course.
When I add the second form to the PDF document containing the first one, the data from the second form is erased and replaced by the data from the first.
So, I end up with a PDF document with two forms containing identical user data.
I suspect Acrobat is freaked out because the forms contain the same field names or something. I know I can solve this by making a new PDF from the form-fillable PDF--flattening the layers, in Photoshop-speak. Is there another way to solve the problem?

With Acrobat forms form fields with the same name and type will change together. This has how Acrobat forms have worked since they were introduced.

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Hey,
Firstly, you might need to let me know what version of Acrobat are you using.
Then, tell me whether you are first converting word files to PDF individually and then combining all those PDFs or directly combining all files to PDF.
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This should not have happened as there is no maximum file size limit when combining PDFs.
Please let me know if there are some password protected PDFs also?
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