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huber needles are available in the hospital,,,,as you said she was taught by a physician,,,,i acces ports all the time with huber needles,,,,where i work now, you can only access them if you have had the training and are certified,,,,where i used to work certification was not a requirement but being taught how to do it was,,,,i accessed the port of an 11 year old cancer patient for 2 solid weeks and kept having trouble,,,the child would cry and i finally told the mother that i would not do this anymore,,i could not take that kid crying,,,my nerves were shot,,,,she didnt want another nurse to do it so she went to her md and told him to take it out and put in a groshung which is a catheter on the outside,,,,well, when they went in to remove the port they found that it was faulty,,,my point here is, i really dont think that just anyone should access a port,,,there could be things that you run into that you dont understand,,,,access the port in itself is not hard,,,its what you dont know that can hurt you,,,,i read a thread on this site about a girl who somehow accessed her own port without anyone knowing,,,she then removed saline when she wanted to eat and put it back in,,blah blah blah,,,be serious,,,if you are not a trained professional you really shouldnt be doing it,,,but to each his own,,,,i know nurses that will not access ports because they dont have a lot of experience with them,,,they know that unforseen things can happen,,,but again, to each his own,,,,

there's saline in mine,,,i watched him do it,,,,i dont think i would let them put anything else in there,,,what if it leaked,,,,,

nicole,,,tell your doctor about the hard time the witches gave you,,,,tell him perhaps you need a different doctor,,,as i said,,,i have bcbs and had no problem getting approved,,,,,,,the follow up with lapband is extensive,,,do you really want to deal with those idiots,,,run this by the surgeon,,there are others

sty,im a nurse ,,i access ports with a huber needle all the time and even i wouldnt consider this,,,,dont do it

i have bcbs,,,,,they approved me without any problem,,,,,,,

the pain in the shoulder (s) is from irritation to the vagus nerve which is a nerve that innervates the stomach,it will pass when the irritation does,,:confused:

tracy,,,the anesthesia was the thing that almost made me forget the whole thing,,,,i was so freaked out by it,,,,but let me tell you,,,i never knew a thing,,,i told my surgeon how upset i was about the anesthesia and he took me to the anesthesiologist and i talked with him for a while and felt a little better,,,then i went for the surgery and im telling you it was like nothing,,,no problem,,,i understand your fear,,honestly, it was nothing,,,