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Joined: May 2008 Posts: 551 | Rita,
The infection stinks! I had one as well. Lots of pain and gobs of oozing. If you're anything like me, the oozing will continue for a couple of days after starting the antibiotics, but it will clear and the site will be much less 'owie.'
Have you been flushing the PEG with plain water? Can you spin it around or move it in and out? Mine had come out of my stomach and lodged in my abdominal wall - although no one speculated if that had anything to do with the infection. It hurt when I flushed it and was unbelievably painful if it got moved around but it was still confirmed with a CT scan before it got removed.
Hang in there!
Stage IV SCC lt lateral tongue, surgery 5/19/08 (partial gloss/upper neck dissection left side/radial free flap reconstruction) IMRT w/weekly Cisplatin & Erbitux 6/30/08, PEG 1 6/12/08 - out 7/14 (in abdominal wall, not stomach), PEG 2 7/23/08 - out 11/20/08, Tx done 8/18/08
Second SCC tumor, Stage 1, rt mobile tongue, removed 10/18/2016, right neck dissection 12/9/2016
Third SCC tumor, diagnosed, 4/19/2108, rt submandibular mass, HPV-, IMRT w/ weekly Cisplatin, 5/9 - 6/25/2018, PEG 3 5/31/2018
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