I can't relate to the last two posts. There are several different styles of PEG's. Mine had a wire in the tube. When they inserted the tube initially, they pulled on the wire and that caused the portion in my stomach to curl up like a pigtale, and that's what held it in. When it came time to take it out (which I did myself) I cut the wire, which cause the pig taill to straighten out, and it just slipped out of the hole, In 2 days it had healed in completely. A second design that a friend had, had a small balloon on the end, which was inflated once the tube reached into inside of the stomach, and this caused the tube to stay in place. To take it out the balloon was collapsed and the tube slid right out. I've never heard of this yanking it out in pain stuff before. What kind of tube brand was it.?...and perhaps given these other simple alternatives, we should tell patients to ask for the simple deisgns.

Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.