Flipped port and pain

[stephgfl 13]

I was banded in 1/13 and I have a flipped port. I'm pretty sure it's been flipped since very shortly after my surgery because at my first fill and ever since my surgeon has had a hard time accessing my port, but he never said it was flipped. At first I thought it was normal and maybe just my body or the position of the port. But I saw another surgeon in the practice and he was immediately like "oh my goodness you have a 90 degree flip!" He showed me the flip on X-ray, and now I know why I can only feel the side of my port.

My question is has anyone else experienced this and more importantly, did you have pain with it? I have a lot of pain in my port area and suspect it's related to the flip.

[dawalsh 919]

I was banded in 1/13 and I have a flipped port. I'm pretty sure it's been flipped since very shortly after my surgery because at my first fill and ever since my surgeon has had a hard time accessing my port, but he never said it was flipped. At first I thought it was normal and maybe just my body or the position of the port. But I saw another surgeon in the practice and he was immediately like "oh my goodness you have a 90 degree flip!" He showed me the flip on X-ray, and now I know why I can only feel the side of my port.

My question is has anyone else experienced this and more importantly, did you have pain with it? I have a lot of pain in my port area and suspect it's related to the flip.

Yes, I did. I was banded on 12/28/2012. In April, I was experiencing pain and when my surgeon tried to fill me be realized my port had flipped I had a day surgery a week later to reposition my port. I've been fine ever since, no more pain and my one year anniversary is on 12/28.

[kll724 3,055]

My port has flipped, a little. My surgeon said he can still access the port, however. I do not have any pain. He said that the port might have turned when I had lost enough weight to make it too big and I might need a smaller port. So far, I have not needed further surgery, but I don't get fills anymore, either since then. Perhaps you do as Dawalsh did. Best wishes to you. Karen..aka.kll724

[Maddysgram 6,159]

My surgery was Oct 2012 and by Jan2013 my port had flipped completely over. Never had any pain. Had a port revision and no more problems.