Anyone had a PIG feeding tube?

I found this. Similar to a PEG as far as putting it in goes 

If you are having a PIGG

This is done in the Interventional Radiology Department. A narrow tube is passed through your nose into your stomach. Air will be passed into your stomach via the tube to make it visible on x-ray.

Local anaesthetic will numb your stomach. A small cut is made in your stomach and the feeding tube is then passed through.

This operation typically takes thirty minutes.

Do you have a date? 

Hi Dani 

Yes next Friday nil by mouth from 6am then sign paperwork for Radiotherapy then bloods taken .Walk round corner to Hallamshire stay on ward till operation at 2-5pm then have to stay in overnight.Home Sunday(all being well) Monday 9am 1st session of Radiotherapy then straight upstairs onto ward for Chemo through night then back fown stairs for Radiotherapy next day!!!! Concerned about pain from PIG and no time to heal before it all startsxxx

Nurse said wont go down nose( as I would prefer) has to go  in via mouth and throat but has big plastic button on inside of stomach ???

The stomach tubes , PEG PIGG RiG take a week or two to settle. ThAts what most people have reported

You won’t be using it straightaway anyway. 

Debbielouise said:

Nurse said wont go down nose( as I would prefer) has to go  in via mouth and throat but has big plastic button on inside of stomach ???

It’s placed via your nose though. 

Good evening Debbie, i had a PEG fitted in 2009 and still have it to this day, it is less complicated and easier to fit than an RIG,as Dani mentioned is a case of passing a tube through your mouth using a camera to guide it to a small hole in the lower stomach, it is held in position by either solid disc or the most common way is by a very small balloon that is inflated via the PEG and sits against you stomach lining and a rubbery disc on the outside to stop it going in to far. Mine was fitted during my first operation so i was fast asleep so please ask if you can be anesthetised if possible. Wishing you all the best, take care.

                                                                   Chris x 

Its more comfortable to have it fitted through the mouth, it either has a disc or a ballon to stop it coming out. 

Hopefully they will fit the PEG at the same time as your operation x

                                                                Chris 

Thanks Chris appreciate your reply . Just wish they could heavily sedate me x

Ask for heavy sedation Debbie x