I'm fairly new to this forum. I agree with Anita. I don't understand why there is, or should/would be a war on the subject of PEGs...

My Oncologist, like many of yours, insisted I get one. I didn't have it installed until a couple of months after my chemo port - so I could still swim in the hot Texas heat as long as possible... but the Docs wanted it in before radiation started.

I knew to keep swallowing as much as I could throughout both chemo and radiation. But once you're 20 or so radiation treatments in... the PEG had to be used. Same for after radiation. It was weeks or months before I could eat on my own. I could drink, but my throat was swollen almost shut by the radiation, it took six endscopy treatments to stretch it out so I could eat on my own again.

I struggle now, as many others do, to maintain my weight without the tube, but I don't miss the PEG at all - I hated it. But it did it's job. I really don't understand why there would be a war about them...