can you feel your port??

[bitteroldhag 0]

After losing 40 pounds, I can feel my port when I'm standing up, but not when I'm lying down. Weird! Since I don't intend to get to be really skinny, I hope to lose 20 more pounds and leave it at that. At that point, I think I'll be able to feel the port pretty well though I still have quite a lot of fat on my stomach area. That seems the be the last to go away.

[puddin 7]

At my highest weight I couldn't feel it, but now it's nearly always visible with my clothes off, but no one notices.

[txgirl 0]

Hi bitteroldhag

i love your screen name. i was also banded by Dr. Rodriguez- my was 3/07 is he wonderful.

[blj5362 0]

I can feel mine more after I eat, Its like one of those turkey timers that pop out when the turkey is done. My port pops out when I am done eating. :-)

[Autumn444 0]

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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Hi there -

The person he spoke of is me. However, I did not bend down, I sadly slipped on a wash cloth that my son neglected to pick up after his shower. I did almost a complete slip. Now, I have had 10 hip surgeries, and was not even thinking about my port ect. I was more concerned about my hips. However, once I recovered, I started my shower again, When I lifed my arms for the Shampoo, that is when I felt the port pain. It was a sever burning pain. I went to the doctors and she confirmed that the left side of my port, I ripped some stitches. She said that scar tissue will correct it . No need to go back under. :-)

Needless to say, since that has happend, I have taken it easy, and I have no more pain. Today is my 4 week post op. I have losed 38lbs!

[jteastside 0]

My dr. had a hard time finding mine port too, but then said he found it--I went for my 6 week check-up assuming I would get a fill and he really wanted to wait until my 8th week visit, but since I live 6 hrs from there, he went ahead and said he'd fill it

-I feel my port (and if it is scar tissue, it would be in the same general region) up above my long incision--however, he placed the injection about an inch below my incision and I know he was just barely filling it because it was my first fill--but I HONESTLY didn't feel the pressure that I was supposed to feel--the tightening of the stomach or the pressure when he pulled the needle out, I didn't feel any less hunger and still can eat portions bigger than 3oz. Is is possible he just told me he did it to appease me? I find that hard to believe, but I can't tell ANY difference and the shot was about 3 inches from the port location that I feel while standing and laying stretched out. What do y'all think--could it be that he didn't hit the mark and thought he did?

[smyly 0]

I could feel my port right away. Now three months post-op I can grab it with my fingers, it is right below my rib cage.

[angiebell 0]

Mine feels huge and it is a mini port. I just had in repositioned almost 2 weeks ago becasue it flipped on it's side and now it feels like it has turned on it's side again when I am standing up. I can feel it perfectly.