If you cant tolerate enough oral intake for nutrition then an appropriate next step would be consideration for a feeding tube of some sort. Either into your stomach or small intestine.IV nutrition is inferior and prone to a lot of problems (also super expensive and hard to get insurance approval). Its not typically used unless you absolutely cant use the intestines for one reason or another.
Is it unreasonable to try to ask for IV foods, or is this feasible? How else can I stop withering away? Please help.Im not sure what the technical term for IV food is, but here we go:Basic info: Male, white, 33 y.o., 6 foot, down from 190 lbs to 129 lbs. Im in the U.S. and do have insurance.Background info: for the past four years, I have had increasingly bad health issues that doctors cannot diagnose. It started with joints that felt like they were tearing spontaneously and not healing (which makes them to where I have no strength or movement) and it is literally almost every joint in my body. Then it became muscles and other soft tissue that seems to be contracting out of nowhere, and I am losing all range of motion. Then, I have other health issues that pop up and never seem to heal. Examples are erosive gastritis for the past 2 years that wont heal with medicine and prohibits much of what I eat, eyes that were hurt after being outside for 30 minutes and have now made it to where I cannot tolerate light or screens without searing pain, and weird things like that. I have seen so many specialists, and they are all baffled, think something is seriously wrong, but say they cant help. Extensive bloodwork has shown nothing but a TPO antibody, but normal thyroid levels.My main question: with my joint problems, I have not been able to close my jaw for almost a year, which means I havent been able to eat solid food in almost a year. Then, my erosive gastritis limits most high calorie foods from my diet. I stuff my mouth with the foods that I can eat, and if I try really hard, I still struggle to get 1500 cal a day. I have tried everything I personally have control over, but it is just not possible to get enough, and my nutrients are low and making it to where I can hardly stay awake. I have asked doctors if there would be any way that I could get IV food so I can get enough nutrition to, at the bare minimum, not keep getting worse and worse. Ideally, I would be able to get enough to gain weight so I can maybe improve my muscle mass. However, I mentioned this to a doctor and was laughed at like it was the dumbest question on earth. When I say laughed at, he literally said oh my god and rolled his eyes.Is this a crazy request? Is this a feasible option? If you have ANY suggestions, please help. I hate to sound dramatic, but my entire family thinks Im dying, and I feel Im on my way there as well. My stomach and colon have been torn up from all the medicines that have been tried, and I am all out of ideas.