u/YESIGOTBANNED

I've been very underweight for most of my life, but the past year I literally haven't gained a kilo no matter how hard I try. I've tried meal plans and supplements but I still can't gain weight.

An NG tube has been talked about by my team (and another team) for 4ish years, I've usually always been able to gain some weight to teeter me over the edge and not need one.

I'm gonna be admitted soon and I think I want to ask about having an NG tube, but I'm pretty nervous. So I just wanted to ask a few questions for people who have had NG tubes in before.

Did it make you feel as full as a regular meal would? I struggle with feeling full so it makes it hard to finish a meal.

When it gets removed, were you able to maintain that weight or did you have to have another NG tube to maintain it?

If it did bring up your weight, did you feel better and less prone to infection?

Just to add I'm also not on any modulator

Around December 2025 I got extremely ill and had to go to the ICU. I went from around 70% fev1 to the low 20s and now I struggle to get to the 40s.

When my initial decline happened I assumed it was because I neglected my treatments. I always had chronic psuedomonas that would usually flare up every 3 months or sometimes not for an entire year. Ever since I got ill in December I just can't seem to knock it down for longer than a month.

I follow my treatments now, but every month I find myself back in the hospital with low sats and a bad fev1, I don't know what to do. I recover fast with IV antibiotics and I'm usually back to 40% by the end of my admission but then I usually find myself breathless after a few weeks. Nothing just seems to stick.

Has anyone else been through this? Has anyone been able to solve this or is this gonna be my new normal?

I'm not diagnosed with any anxiety disorders yet, but I am in the process of getting a GP appointment regarding it.

But my social anxiety manifests with the classical physical symptoms; sweating, fast heart rate and high blood pressure. But I also become unable to speak in a lot of situations, like i'm almost conversing with someone in my head but I can't utter a word even if I want to.

It's become better in recent years but I'm still unable to hold a conversation with someone outside of a few yes or no's.