How does it feel with the port under your skin?

[catzmeow76 0]

Can you feel a band even? I know sorry a stupid question I'm just still new to all this and want to get this all down before 12/15 when I meet with a dr.

[~Jules~ 0]

It is kinda weird, but kinda cool at the same time.

[Vickie1177 0]

Once you are healed you will not even feel the port. It is so far under your skin that only if you push really hard you will feel it.

[GayleTX 1]

Can't feel a thing! Maybe when I get a little thinner I can feel my port but right now I can't. It is a strange feeling, all right!

[pattiriciat 0]

i am wondering if any of the people that havent been banded yet are scared about anything?

[Jachut 487]

I can feel my port if I put my hand there, now I'm almost at goal its very easy but it doesnt show. There's no discernable bump there. If I lean into something like the kitchen bench and hit my port it might be uncomfortable and the cat has a terrible habit of standing right on it when she jumps on me to begin her morning begging for food.< /p>

Sometimes, with very strenuous exercise it can hurt a bit - like a stitch, more of an annoyance, rather than pain. But overall it doesnt bother me at all.

[pattiriciat 0]

hey lila do you know how to get my ticker to show?

thanks pattiriciat

[Carlene 12]

You can't feel the band or the tubing. I can feel my port. It feels somewhat like a nine volt battery has been implanted under my skin.

[pattiriciat 0]

ok anyone how do i get my ticker to work?

thank you patti

[FullofGRACE 0]

Mine was very painful for first week..I'm two weeks out today and I have no pain whatsoever.

[r2ht4u 0]

I sure feel my port...but my surgery weight was 182=was under BMI of 35. The first 2 weeks after surgery I had some port pain but now it just kinda feels like a 9volt battery right under the skin. My kids said it feels gross- but its my reminder of what used to be and what is just ahead for me! BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!

[sheilamj1fan 2]

Hello everyone!

I haven't been banded yet so I'm very nervous! I'm more scared about the band around my stomach than the port area. I don't want band erosion or slippage and I don't want to PB...but I wanna lose weight!

[r2ht4u 0]

WOW Carlene...great minds think alike! I just was looking over the post and saw I said the same thing you did-almost word for word! Sorry!

[Woodys 0]

My port never bothered me. At first I couldn't find it, was afraid to press too hard. But now, since I'm almost at goal, I can see and feel it. Doesn't bother me a bit.

Carol

[Stacy160 201]

Yesterday I spoke with a patient who we've been seeing for 3 months, who just happened to mention her LB to our receptionist. I had no idea... anyway the receptionist told her I was looking into it also, so I caught up with her yesterday to talk about it. When she showed me her port site and let me feel it, I was really surprised by the size and hardness of it... I guess I expected a little bump, if anything, and that it would be squishy, more like a pliable plastic bulb. My question is... well how do I put this. Does it interfere with um... relations?? It won't stop me from having it done, but that would stink LOL... Thanks!