Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)    Joined:  Feb 2005  Posts: 2,019  |    Margaret,  I'm sorry you're going through such pain with the PEG. Hopefully having it loosened will help a lot.  Some of it may just be the pain from inserting it through stomach muscle--although in my experience, that got better after 3-4 days.
  Nelie        
SCC(T2N0M0) part.glossectomy & neck dissect 2/9/05 & 2/25/05.33 IMRT(66 Gy),2 Cisplatin ended 06/03/05.Stage I breast cancer treated 2/05-11/05.Surgery to remove esophageal stricture 07/06, still having dilatations to keep esophagus open.Dysphagia.  "When you're going through hell, keep going"
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