After 2 years with the NG feeding tube and problems starting to flare in my nostrils I agreed to changing to a PEG feeding tube. This is where the tube goes straight into your stomach and the longer outsider side is under your clothes.
There are a few different kinds, mine has a bumper inside rather than a balloon and it is a dangling tube rather than a button.
The procedure to have it inserted was very quick with a 1 night stay in hospital as we already had all the equipment at home, was settled on the feed and knew how to use it.
The consultant did it in the endoscopy department with 3 other team members. I opted to have no sedation but believe you would usually have this. They then gave me the numbing mouth spray that tastes like bananas before putting in a mouth guard to open it up and begin.
Here is where it went quickly and I may not get the full details even though they kept me informed. They passed the camera down into my stomach, used a light to show where to cut on the outside on my stomach. Passed a clamp down to get a thread and pull this back up through the hole out my month and attach it to the tube and then pull and feed it back down into place before fixing it in with the external fitting, attaching the clamp and y-adaptor on the end where the feed and things go in.
That was me done, off to the ward for a very windy night that did cause stomach pains but I was allowed home the following evening to recuperate.
I have to care for it my keeping it clean, turning it like an earring, but it has been very good to me and allows me to have hydration, nutrition and medication when I can not swallow.