Port placement and tummy tuck HELP!

[movingpixels 13]

Hello - I was banded in '06 and I've lost around 90lbs. My stomach looks like deflated bread dough... after the second rising punch down. Awesome. Anyway, I thought I would march in and get my Tummy Tuck and the surgeon would just move my port below the muscle or below my belly button so it wouldn't show as bad. These plastic surgeons look at me like I have two heads. One said I would have to talk to a general surgeon that has operating privileges in his surgery center to see how much he would charge or if he would even do it. Un-suturing this thing and suturing it below (my new!) belly button seems pretty simple. WTF? Amy I crazy? Also have any of you gotten the lower profile port? It doesn't appear to be that much smaller than the original one. I don't have a lot of fat on my belly and this thing sticks out HORRIBLY. Thanks banisters!

[gowalking 10,790]

Love your 'after' picture. You look beautiful!

[banded2004 31]

Hi - Congrats on your weight loss! I had a full abdominoplasty and a mastoplexy at the same time by a plastic surgeon here in Canada. There was no issue at all moving my port, in fact it never even came up as a concern. Maybe you can check with your surgeon on who his other patients have gone to (if you already haven't).

[skiddles 66]

I had the lower profile port and I honestly don't see a difference this one sticks out too

[NewLife'sGr8 241]

Mine does too skittles.

My surgeon told me they could "bury it deeper" if I want. It gave me a shudder to think about "burying it deeper" in me. I'll probably just wait for the inevitable PS to get it repositioned, i.e.: buried deeper

I think they place it on the top muscles because they have to get those needles through our thick fat and into the port for fills when we're newbies