Severe Port Pain When Standing or Walking

[Family First 0]

I was banded almost 2 weeks ago. This afternoon I started having pretty severe port area pain when I stand and try to walk. It has started to get allot worse. So I called my doctor at 8pm and he said that it was definitely the port and I probably bumped or hit it. He said he can see me tomorrow afternoon after all his surgeries or I can wait until Friday morning. The only thing he said I can do right now is rest and apply ice packs and the liquid Loratab he prescribed for surgery pain. It freakin hurts like hell when I try to stand.

Has this happened to anyone else?

[confused 4]

I will agree with that, that the pain is due to bumping your port. I know I have bumped my port and didn't even realize I had done it until it starts to hurt...like a bad bruise. The dog ran up me while I was laying in my recliner and stood on my port, that hurt real bad..like someone punched me in the port, now that it's been a couple of days it just feels like a bruise. I was banded in 2007, and had my port and tubing replaced last year in July. My port was leaking. I would just let your doctor know when you see them, just so they can poke around and make sure that is all it is.

[racer 0]

My port area was the last to heal . I have hit it and yeah it can hurt. Mine is right under the surface and real easy to find and bump into. 2 weeks post op i still had some discomfort and swelling . Took me 4 weeks to be myself again. Going in for 2nd fill today , have some restriction but need more and need to remember to drink my Water. Keep moving forward.

[Family First 0]

I am feeling 100% better than last week this time. While I was at the doctors last week he poked around the port area. I woke up the next morning and twisted the get the remote control and felt like someone snapped me in the belly with a rubber band. After that I started feeling SO much better. I am thinking it was scar tissue and it released from right under my skin. :confused:

Thank you for your responses.

[confused 4]

I'm the right height to bump mine on the kitchen counter, and shopping carts. So I'm always bumping mine and not realizing that I have done it unless I hit really hard. I feel bruised for days sometimes you can even see the bruise. I had that popping feeling once when I started doing sit ups and ab exercises, when I told my doctor he about had a fit. He told me NO more ab exercises. He never told me what the pop feeling was though. Just take it easy if you feel like it hurts. I mean you don't want to be like that saying 1 step forward and 2 steps back...you don't want that.