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Hello! I was banded on 12/17. Just the past 2-3 days I have felt something under my skin. If I am laying in bed on my side and I roll over I can feel something move. I am assuming it is my tube from the band to the port. Has anyone else experienced this?

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Absolutely - I've been banded since Oct 23rd and having these foreign objects in my body has been the biggest adjustment for me - and it's the port and the tubing that I'm feeling (that's what the doc said)... I still have issues hugging my family and always saying - "watch the port" - it's very sensitive and takes getting use to it - I'm still no there yet albeit I'm pleased with the results so far. Slow and steady.

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I recieved my lap band on January 31, 2012. I am an Army Wife and so I had my surgery at one post as 6 months later moved to another post. This new post does thing WAY differently than the last post. I like how they do things here much, much better than the last post. Anyway, my bariatric nurse here said that some surgeons will place mesh on the port to stabilize it. I, apparently, have no mesh so my port will move a little. Sometimes when she is giving me a fill it will tilt a little side to side. I can also "massage" it a little and feel it moving some. It's kind of weird... Lol. But, it's a reminder on who I used to be, and the decision I made to be who I am now. It also sometimes moves when my jeans hit it a certain.

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Absolutely - I've been banded since Oct 23rd and having these foreign objects in my body has been the biggest adjustment for me - and it's the port and the tubing that I'm feeling (that's what the doc said)... I still have issues hugging my family and always saying - "watch the port" - it's very sensitive and takes getting use to it - I'm still no there yet albeit I'm pleased with the results so far. Slow and steady.

My port is very sensitive too. It's very sore.

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