Hi Everyone,
I'm taking in 8 cans of Ensure Plus to get the 3K calories I need (half through mouth, half peg, swallowing isn't so good yet), but I just noticed that there are 20g of sugar in each one, making for a whopping 160g of sugar/day. Is there a way to get the high caloric content of the Ensures without all the sugar? My near-term solution is to go back to pumping in Osmolite 1.5's which are also 355 cals/each, but at some point I want to be able to ditch the peg and swallow everything(and swallowing Osmolites is not an option), and I haven't figured out what solution has as high a caloric content as the Ensure Plus. I'd rather not drink 10-12 cans of something that has lower sugar but also lower cals.

Thanks.


Joe
SCC BOT T3N0 Aged 36 (1999)
Unknown HPV status (before they knew)
SWOG Protocol - 2 rounds chemo, 6 weeks radiation
Recurrence Age 50 (2013) - same site
SCCa BOT T2N0M0
HPV negative
60% Glossectomy/Free Flap from Latissimus Dorsi Recon,
Neck Dissection + 6wks Rad Tx
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