hi, im new here... buy the way you can call me iceman, im a 32 male thats been diagnose with squamous cell carcinoma on the tongue last january of 2006. Ive under go operation and radiation twice ( it recurred... they said =( )
the second time i got operated was on the year 2007. then from there i got my swallowing problem and from then on i havent eating on my mouth. It kinda depressing... until now im still trying to accept what had happend to me... =(

question is, i go this peg tube from the last operation i got and until now its never got replaced. Now im experiencing a leak (not from the inside tho, where the hole to the stomach is but from the tube itself. an inch or two from the top of my peg.) Went to the hospital (a diffrent one from where i got operated) and they said that my peg tube (G tube) is a mushroom TYPE one. They want me to undergo Endoscopy to see the end of it before they replace it. Do i really need an Endoscopy for this? Why? for what i have read Fluoroscopy is olso an option but they dont say that to me. (the doctors)

and if my Gtube is mushroom type, how can they pull it? do i need to be sedated on this? just imagining pulling a mushroom type from my stomach scare the hell out me =(

need some inputs and help...

thank you...