Pegs or Nasogastro

RayTodd
RayTodd Member Posts: 187
in Head and Neck Cancer #1
just being lazy mentioned a lot on here were tubed i seem to recall Naso Gastric but wife who is an RN (Reg Nurse)is saying they would be PEGS and i am too lazy to read all the reports also it takes a long time to move around on this site.

Ray ( The underdog LOL)
PS No I am not as everyone says , lucky to be married to a nurse as she does it all day at work and at home does not want to know,which i totally understand.(have to say that she was looking over my shoulder) just kidding LOL.

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  • DrMary
    DrMary Member Posts: 531 Member
    #2
    Not nasogastric
    I asked about that - our rad doctor said they've sometimes been used, but can cause bad ulceration in the throat (due to abrading the radiation damaged tissue) and there is a possibility that any undead subsurface cancer cells might get exposed and spread to the lungs. The second sounded a bit like a fear rather than fact based on experience, but the first was documented.

    BTW, my mother's a nurse - she was cool and efficient in any medical crisis at work and a total basket case when any of us got hurt. Caregiving's hard no matter what, but probably particularly hard on nurses - I'm sure she'll be a champ, however.
  • jim and i
    jim and i Member Posts: 1,788 Member
    #3
    PEG
    One thing no one told us and I didn't see on this site was that when they put in the PEG it is very uncomfortable and painful. Not the PEG but the hose they run down through the nose and into the stomach during the procedure. My husband has a high pain threshold but he had tears in his eyes after theyinserted it. It took them to tries to put it in. He said it was like swallowing a snake backwards. He was awake with a local during the procedure. He said the actual procedure wasn't bad, it was just having that hose in his throat that was awful. He only had a little pain with the incesion. I don't want to scare you off because if he had not had the PEG he would have wasted away long before now as he has not been able to eat or drink anything other than water from week one. He now says he is glad he got it in. He can't imagine having it put in after treatment starts.

    Our daughter is a doctor's assistant and I know what you mean by it being different for family. I think it has is because they know much more that can happen than we do and they have seen some bad things.

    Praying all goes well for you and your wife.


    Debbie
  • Greend
    Greend Member Posts: 678
    #4
    jim and i said:

    PEG
    One thing no one told us and I didn't see on this site was that when they put in the PEG it is very uncomfortable and painful. Not the PEG but the hose they run down through the nose and into the stomach during the procedure. My husband has a high pain threshold but he had tears in his eyes after theyinserted it. It took them to tries to put it in. He said it was like swallowing a snake backwards. He was awake with a local during the procedure. He said the actual procedure wasn't bad, it was just having that hose in his throat that was awful. He only had a little pain with the incesion. I don't want to scare you off because if he had not had the PEG he would have wasted away long before now as he has not been able to eat or drink anything other than water from week one. He now says he is glad he got it in. He can't imagine having it put in after treatment starts.

    Our daughter is a doctor's assistant and I know what you mean by it being different for family. I think it has is because they know much more that can happen than we do and they have seen some bad things.

    Praying all goes well for you and your wife.


    Debbie

    Asleep
    I didn't say anything because they put me to sleep to do the procedure. I thought they did everyone.
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #5
    Greend said:

    Asleep
    I didn't say anything because they put me to sleep to do the procedure. I thought they did everyone.

    I had a PEG not a
    I had a PEG not a nasogastric. They put me out too. It did hurt like hell for the first week or so, and that bumper was so tight I thought I was gonna die. Getting out of the car when I got home made me cry.

    I don't remember anything down my nose. I do have issues when they put me out because they usually intubate me when I am still awake, and they are trying to shove that tube down my throat, which is so not fun.
  • RayTodd
    RayTodd Member Posts: 187
    #6
    sweetblood22 said:

    I had a PEG not a
    I had a PEG not a nasogastric. They put me out too. It did hurt like hell for the first week or so, and that bumper was so tight I thought I was gonna die. Getting out of the car when I got home made me cry.

    I don't remember anything down my nose. I do have issues when they put me out because they usually intubate me when I am still awake, and they are trying to shove that tube down my throat, which is so not fun.

    rats hehe
    Looks like she wins again
  • DrMary
    DrMary Member Posts: 531 Member
    #7
    RayTodd said:

    rats hehe
    Looks like she wins again

    I guess
    you haven't been married that long - otherwise you would know that she is ALWAYS right.
  • Kent Cass
    Kent Cass Member Posts: 1,898 Member
    #8
    DrMary said:

    I guess
    you haven't been married that long - otherwise you would know that she is ALWAYS right.

    Mine
    Was, technically, a G-tube, and was put under for the Outpatient Op. Had some discomfort in the stomach area where they ran the tube out from the stomach to the chest, but only for a couple days, then all was good. Didn't even know they'd run it down my throat to my stomach, then out to the abdomen, until over a year later on this forum, so I didn't notice any irritation in the nose, throat, or esophagus after the procedure. Does take some getting used-to, though. Got mine before treatment started, and have never had any regret after the first week of tx, as it was an essential part of my survival.

    kcass
  • RayTodd
    RayTodd Member Posts: 187
    #9
    DrMary said:

    I guess
    you haven't been married that long - otherwise you would know that she is ALWAYS right.

    oh i have been married long
    33 years but i am a slow learner LOL

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