port pain

[hopeful93 0]

I will try to get to the point...i had the band placed 9-13-2007-- nothing but trouble since it was placed. the day i had my band placed after my dad left the hospital from visiting me he dropped dead of a massive heart attack. i have had restriction problems ( never feeling full) since it was placed. the only restriction i would feel would be food backing up in my throat. 11 months later i had a leak in the port which was replaced still having NO feeling of fullness. so i gave up and went about my life as if i never had the band. a few months later went to a gyn appt. and my dr. encouraged me to seek a 2nd opinion so i did . i went to a different hopsital and diff dr. did i mention i am an x-ray tech and would take x-rays on occasion and was noticing my port starting to flip and did mention this to my dr which wasn't really concerned. i went to the 2nd dr. tried to access the port and he couldn't so he also thought it was flipping, i had to attempt a fill in IR (interventional Radiology) where the radiologist said that it was starting to flip and he was able to access the port but instead of the needle being verticle to my port it laid horizonital on my stomach. after having a fill i said that i felt overfull he said wait a few hrs and it will ease up so i did and ended up in the ER at 10pm that night totall occuled i could not even swallow my own saliva. so after my er visit and taking everything out of my band i gave up on the whole band gig and went about my life as if i never had it. which brings me up to today.. for the past 5 months i have been having intermitting port pain which is happening now almost all the time. i do have an appt. back at the 1st dr office in 16 days but the dr. who did my opweration is not there anymore he opened a practice in another state. so now i have to present my nightmare to almost a whole new group...Any opinion as to what the pain could be??? any help would be greatly appreciated....Thanks hopeful93