Guess I wasn't meant to have a big tube

Greend
Greend Member Posts: 678
in Head and Neck Cancer #1
I was bragging not long ago about being able to select my big (26mm) feeding tube to replace the original. Well at 2:00 this morning I felt a bit of pain at the tube entry point and lo and behold the damned thing just fell out. Made a trip to the hospital to get a new one and they gave me a very short and limp 24 mm tube.

On a serious note - are there any things that might make the tube come out sooner than normal. I think this one was only in for about 2 months if that. I had been working in the house lifting and stretching on Sunday and wonder if that may have contributed (and a good way to get out of future work).

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  • jim and i
    jim and i Member Posts: 1,788 Member
    #2
    I would grab onto the no
    I would grab onto the no more work. LOL

    Seriously it could be the lifting. I was told that a balloon holds the tube in, maybe the lifting poped it? Not a medical person bbut could be.
  • Lelia
    Lelia Member Posts: 98
    #3
    short and limp
    You're killing me dude, ha!

    Isn't there a little disc on the opposite side that holds the tube inside the stomach wall? Was there a disc attached to the end of the tube when it came out?
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #4
    I was always afraid of that
    I was always afraid of that happening. Maybe it was the lifting and stretching. Those balloons never looked particularly durable when she would change mine. It always looked kinda gross to me, and would look pretty discolored and worse for the wear when they wpuld change mine.
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #5
    Size Matters
    See, there you go, just when you didn't think size mattered.... Sometimes you just can't win for losing.

    JG
  • Greend
    Greend Member Posts: 678
    #6
    Lelia said:

    short and limp
    You're killing me dude, ha!

    Isn't there a little disc on the opposite side that holds the tube inside the stomach wall? Was there a disc attached to the end of the tube when it came out?

    Disc
    The one that was done surgically (the first) had a disc on the end and lasted for almost a year. The second one had the "deflated" baloon on the end and I agree with Sweetblood that it looked gross.
  • KareGiver
    KareGiver Member Posts: 301 Member
    #7
    Skiffin16 said:

    Size Matters
    See, there you go, just when you didn't think size mattered.... Sometimes you just can't win for losing.

    JG

    :)
    thanks for the humor guys!
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #8
    Greend
    Yep sound like you deflated on the inside.

    Hondo
  • Kent Cass
    Kent Cass Member Posts: 1,898 Member
    #9
    Hondo said:

    Greend
    Yep sound like you deflated on the inside.

    Hondo

    My G-tube
    which I kept in me for some 15-months, had a disk on the inside of my stomach wall that measured approximately 15/16" in diameter. No way that thing was coming out, except by the yanking the Surgeon did to rid me of it. That same Surgeon had high praise for the balloon variety, by the way.

    kcass
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #10
    Skiffin16 said:

    Size Matters
    See, there you go, just when you didn't think size mattered.... Sometimes you just can't win for losing.

    JG

    Size Matters
    Hi John I think I am going to let that on alone for now, ha ha ha

    Hondo
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #11
    Hondo said:

    Size Matters
    Hi John I think I am going to let that on alone for now, ha ha ha

    Hondo

    Lelia
    It's Lelia's fault.....

    I tried to hold back, but her reply just brought out the orneriness in me....

    JG

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