 Senior Patient Advocate Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 8,311 | IMO IF you need a feeding tube it will most likely onlybe needed for a few weeks at the end of Tx or perhaps not even until the rads are over and then IF you need a feeding tube you can have the nasal tube installed in a doctors office in a few minutes without pain and no surgery. I only needed mine for 2 weeks post Tx and believe me it did it's job and I was even allowed to pull it out myself at home. Took all of 10 painless seconds.
I have been preaching to the world for the last 8 years about the nasal tube (over the PEG) and I still can't understand why some doctors continue to push that painfully surgically implanted, hard to maintain, prone to infection, complicated to feed by and daily life distrupting PEG??
Whew...
David
Age 58 at Dx, HPV16+ SCC, Stage IV BOT+2 nodes, non smoker, casual drinker, exercise nut, Cisplatin x 3 & concurrent IMRT x 35,(70 Gy), no surgery, no Peg, Tx at Moffitt over Aug 06. Jun 07, back to riding my bike 100 miles a wk. Now doing 12 Spin classes and 60 outdoor miles per wk. Nov 13 completed Hilly Century ride for Cancer, 104 miles, 1st Place in my age group. Apr 2014 & 15, Spun for 9 straight hrs to raise $$ for YMCA's Livestrong Program. Certified Spin Instructor Jun 2014.
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