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I'm sorry. I don't know anything about PEG, but as for the alternate liquid diet, I would suggest you run it by your GI? Maybe drinking Ensure, or similar drinks? Good luck!
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Thanks for your feedback. I’m doing a couple of Ensures per day in addition to soup, yogurt and other soft foods. Can sometimes gag down a little meat. Anything I eat is very tiny amounts as I get full at the first bite or two. I can eat only 1/8 to 1/4 cup of anything at a sitting. I’m losing about a pound a week. At 5’6” and 113 I can’t afford to lose much more. The PEG feeding tube is being recommended as a means of stopping that loss. I know little about it. Just what I’ve read online over the last few days. Would love to know what anyone’s personal experience has been with tube feeding. I fear giving up any freedom I have, or the ability to travel even short distances due to a need to hook up to the system frequently to get nutrition. Is it possible to have a decent quality of life with a tube? If not, I would choose to just slowly die of starvation as I am now and try to enjoy whatever time I have left.