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"Pain associated with my jejunostomy tube and hernia"

About: Royal Melbourne Hospital

(as the patient),

I had a surgical jejunostomy tube placed toward the end of last year, due to gastroparesis, secondary to my Ehlers Danlos Syndrome Type III. 

It had been going okay until I got food poisoning early this year, which caused me to vomit multiple times. Since then I have had significant pain near my jejunostomy site, to the point where I cannot walk much and cannot tolerate running my feeds. I am supposed to be on daily enteral nutrition. My doctors believe it is another hernia, since I have had 4 spigelian hernias in the past in a similar place. We also believe I am allergic to the rubber they use to make this jejunostomy tube, as it has caused me constant pain and extreme itching from day one. I believe my previous surgeon did not believe I was in pain or had a hernia, but instead chose to believe it was all psychological. All 4 of my previous hernias never showed up on imaging and were never found during laparoscopic procedures, only open surgery. I am struggling with the pain and limited amount of activities I can do at the moment. I believe I am needing a surgeon who will be willing to do open surgery on me to fix this hernia and replace my current feeding tube with a different one that’s smaller and more discreet and also made of a different material. Can anyone please help out with this.

Thank you for you time.

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Response from George Braitberg, Executive Director Strategy, Quality and Improvement, Melbourne Health 5 years ago
George Braitberg
Executive Director Strategy, Quality and Improvement,
Melbourne Health
Submitted on 3/04/2019 at 11:37 AM
Published on Care Opinion at 11:38 AM


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Dear cetusrh76

I am sorry to hear that you have had difficulties since you developed food poisoning since the insertion of your jejunostomy tube. It would certainly be helpful to understand what has happened and to make sure that the treating team at the hospital have the opportunity to see you again to address this problem. With regard to the management of your hernias, as you can appreciate, it is not possible to make any meaningful comment without any further information. I would therefore strongly encourage you to make contact with our consumer liaison service (consumerliaison@mh.org.au) so that we can address the issues you have raised directly with you. I hope we are given the opportunity to assist in the near future.

Regards,

George Braitberg

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