Welcome to our family, LPV. We're all here to help you get through your treatment and beyond.

Count me as one more who chose not to have a PEG and later regretted the decision. And I did not have chemo.

I was almost exactly your weight and height prior to rads. At the end of it I'd lost 30 pounds, which I attribute to not getting enough calories... which in turn I attribute to the fact that it was so painful to swallow the nutrition drinks (even with viscous lidocaine to numb my mouth) that I did not drink nearly enough.

I'm glad you're thinking about this issue and getting good advice from the folks here.

Please keep us posted as you go along.

David 2
SCC of occult origin 1/09 (age 55)| Stage III TXN1M0 | HPV 16+, non-smoker, moderate drinker | Modified radical neck dissection 3/09 | 31 days IMRT finished 6/09 | Hit 14 years all clear in 6/23 | Radiation Fibrosis Syndrome kicked in a few years after treatment and has been progressing since | Prostate cancer diagnosis 10/18