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Do you physically feel the LB in your body other then feeling the restriction ?

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I've read where some can feel it and can feel a fill or when food passes through it. Not me. Can't feel a thing except when I'm stuck.

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Nope.

I could feel my port as a hard mass that sometimes felt like it got in the way when I used my abdominal muscles to bend over, but I couldn't feel my band around my stomach. It's my understanding that the nerves in the GI tract don't react to stimulation the way nerves do elsewhere in the body. For example, when you stimulate your thumb buy pricking it with a pin, the nerves in your thumb immediately say, "Pain!" But when an organ or structure in your GI tract is stimulated, the nerves send the pain signal elsewhere in the body.

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I was terrified of feeling it and I can't... I can feel the port if I go digging for it, and lying on my stomach on the computer isn't all that comfortable anymore because I feel a little achy. I can also feel cool liquid draining through when I drink, but that's comforting because it means all is flowing...

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I don't "think" I can feel it......but sometimes I do feel something around where I think it is....but I wonder if its where I had a hernia repaired and not the band--but I do always wonder. I keep meaning to ask the doctor at my visits...but I always forget.

I have however felt it when food passed through....only a few times...but it was in the beginning and I thought maybe I still had a little swelling or maybe I hadn't chewed my food well enough...it wasn't painful, but definately a foreign feeling.

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So you can't see the port through the skin ?

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Can't feel the band at all. My port is pretty deep and after 70 pounds lost it still is not viewable. I can feel the port if I push on the skin above it. If I do an intense work out I can get muscle pain around the port.

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I can't feel my band unless I'm stuck, but my port is now sticking out under my ribs. It's a fairly hard round lump. I couldn't see or feel it at all at first after I got my band.

It doesn't really bother me much and no one else notices, I kind of got used to it, but I could have it moved to make it less visable, once I reach my goal, but this is done with just a local anesthetic but I'm not sure I can face that.

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So you can't see the port through the skin ?

You might see it after losing a lot of weight. Mine looked like a round bump under the skin, but it wasn't weird looking and I don't think anyone would have noticed it if I'd gone out in public wearing a bikini (which I assure you, I have no plans to do ever again in my entire life).

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