can you feel your port??

[msmelc 3]

When I first had my surgery(jan 27,07) I felt the port, but I recently casnt seem to feel it. I remember the Dr. saying that he "placed it up high" but he had a hard time finding it @ my last fill. My BMI was 53(?) But I have lost 37 lbs since then. I CAN feel it when I am standing, but not laying down, so it got me thinking... what if the doctor cant find !! God Help me then...lol

I am really positive & motivated to do this, but this would just DEVISTATE me...Has this happened to anyone else? & please tell me that it will be alright!!!

THanks!:help:

[WASaBubbleButt 41]

I'll bet you were feeling scar tissue the first time. It feels like a small golf ball near your larger incision. That's not the port.

My starting BMI was 41 and I could not feel it. My BMI now is 33 and I can not only feel it, I can make it poke out.

No worries about not finding it, your doc will find it under fluoro if he can't find it by feeling it.

BTW, most people out of surgery do believe they can feel their port but it really is typically scar tissue that goes away within weeks.

[LapBandit 5]

My surgeon couldn't find my port either. Don't worry-it wont prevent you from getting fills. If he can't feel it then they'll find it with a machine (xray or flouro-whatever)! A trick my doctor uses is to have me lift my legs while laying down and bare down with my abdominal muscles...he finds it everytime when I do this!

If he can't find it then the lump you're feeling is probably scar tissue. It happened to me too. When he said he couldn't find it I said "oh, it's right here". He said it was just scar tissue that my port was actually very deep down sutured to my muscle wall.

[heart4Tony 0]

I can feel my port, and when I wake up in the morning, it sticks out and you can see a bump where it is, everyone says it is gross. :eek:

[Lap_dancer 8]

I can feel my port, and when I wake up in the morning, it sticks out and you can see a bump where it is, everyone says it is gross. :eek:

an Alien inside you?

[heart4Tony 0]

my dr. said he will push it back a little if I loose the weight and it gets more visible.

[Marimaru 7]

I've been able to feel my port since the beginning. It doesn't stick out yet, but it doesn't take as much for me to feel it.

[sheilamj1fan 2]

My port is right at my diaphragm and I can always feel it. Hopefully, I will be able to hide the scar when I put on my bikini top.

Be blessed!

[Jachut 487]

Yes, I could feel it at first and very very vaguely see a slight lump there when I lay down. Now I can feel it extremely easily, feels like a nectarine pip under my skin. But interestingly even now that I can virtually palpate every individual stitch holding it down, it isnt any more obvious to the eye.

[LeeInDe. 0]

I can feel mine. Can't see any indication of it, but deep down, there it is.

Let you know how easy it is to hit tomorrow when I get my first fill!!!

[396power 2]

My question is how does the port come undone.

I was banded yesterday. and last night when I turned over I felt like a stretch or somthing. I seen one guy on the net that he was taking a shower. And he bent over to pick somthing up. And his port came undone.

my question, is it realy that easy to fall off.

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[Daisalana 33]

When I came out of surgery, my doctor had talked to my family. My mom told me, he said he put my port 6 inches under the skin and I would not be able to feel it. I have lightly pushed on my incision for the port just for kicks, and it's lumpy but I'm quite certain it's scar tissue/wound swelling and not the port. I don't imagine anyone would be able to 'feel' my port from the outside for a long time to come. And from what I've come to understand, they don't have to be able to feel it to fill it

[txgirl 0]

don't worry!!most doctors do an x-ray before the fill.

[amom 0]

The person that does fills for our area does not have flouro. I was told I have to be able to feel my port but now I'm worried that what I'm feeling is scar tissue. I was told it was like 2 fingers below my incision, what about yours? I think I can feel it when I stand up but not when I lay down. Is this common?

[Phatty 0]

My surgeon presses in on my port to give me my fill I've never had an xray , I got a fill 3 weeks after my op still being a little tender and him pressing in on it wasn't very nice..

My port is right near my port scar a tiny bit to the left of it.. I can feel it at all times