I have been in & out of the medical hospital for IV nutrition...they used the central line rather than the tube feeding for me....even though I suppose that's more dangerous because it takes a surgery to insert the central line & they nicked my lung once with the needle.....not fun.....but it was necessary to keep me alive at the time. That only happens when your weight is so low & you have become so anemic that your body can't go on any longer without the nutrition......& it was after a long period of time without eating & even then it took quite a long time for my body to get to that severe point & I was already in the medical hospital due to my health issues after going through a trauma with the home care person when my mother was dying of cancer.....really messed me up & couldn't eat.

The only time I went to a treatment center, they covered the cost of it & my pdoc got me into it because my weight was even lower than the last time...but they didn't take into consideration the real reason my weight was that low so it was a useless 8 weeks.....but it got me out of the bad place I was in at home with my marriage.....life was just a total mess.

You are better off if you can work it through in your normal home environment like you are doing