Rachel’s Story

Due to my severe gastroparesis, small intestinal dysmotility, digestive tract paralysis, missing colon, and malabsorption, I am tube fed. I have been tube fed for years now. I have had periods of time where I can eat some and do formula to supplement the rest. I’ve also had times where I was on TPN and completely nothing by digestive tract. Getting nutrition can be really tricky! I struggle to tolerate certain things like fiber and fats or large volumes of food/drink/feed. So, I need a formula that is high calorie, low in volume. I also need my formula to be broken down to make it easier on my digestive system.

A Functional Formularies rep helped me find the formula that was right for me. I am using the Nourish Peptide formula. Thanks to this formula, I am getting better quality nutrition and have been able to tolerate my feeds better (since there’s no dairy and other hard to process ingredients). Again, it is broken down for me, not just real food blended up and shoved inside of me (as my body wouldn’t be able to break that down very well). It’s the best of both worlds! It’s broken down completely AND real/natural ingredients; whereas, most real food formulas are hard for us j-tube fed/dysmotility peeps as they aren’t broken down.