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@jubilta77 Thank you for sharing your experiences. One problem I am having is to gain weight I am currently at 104 lbs. and have not been able to gain for about 5 months although I am maintaining this weight and I feel very healthy. My nutrition formula is Jevity 1.2 that I take 4 times a day with water before and after each feeding. Each feeding is 270 ml of Jevity and 120 ml of water. What nutritional shake are you on? I still have coffee in the morning, although most of it is coughed back up. I sometimes have a vodka martini in the evening, it seems to clear mucus that has gathered, but makes my dry mouth worse. I have been noticing that recently it has been more difficult for me to enunciate clearly. My speech therapist as given me tongue and jaw exercises to help and or to slow the fibrosis down. One other thing, do you have any problems with the area around the tube. My initial surgery was not done very well and it took a long time to heal. Finally in April 2025 another surgeon was able to repair the damage and replace the tube with a larger one. It has now healed but at times I still get leakage and my skin is burned, When this happens I use Coloplast and it really helps. I hope I have been able to help in some way. Our conditions are different and yet the same. Take care.