Port has flipped

dbrar88 · September 14, 2007

I went in for my first fill today (I am 30 days post-banding), and the doctor discovered my port has flipped.

He was manually able to tilt it enough to do the fill, but man did it hurt!!! The needle/fill itself was nothing, but the flippin of the port was enough to make me not want to get a fill. I stuck it out, but have been very sore ever since.

I asked what could have caused this and he said that it depends on how the abdominal walls lie and the port sits. He did continue to say that this is the first time he has ever seen a port flip so close to surgery.

I am to go to my fill next month and see if the port is still flipped or has gone back into position.

How many of you have experienced this problem and was surgery your final solution????

I will gladly do another surgery than have to go through the manual flipping again!!!

D

Daisalana · September 14, 2007

My port has tilted to an odd angle, and that was 2 months post-op that they discovered this. This week I went for another fill, and they had such a hard time getting to it, they decided to do an operation to move my port. Then, under contrast to make sure the band was working right they realized my port or the tube above the port leaks... when they injected contrast saline into it, it just went all over in my body.

So, instead of the port moving surgery, they're going to replace my port and/or the tube.

But, (and I felt different than you, I'd rather they kept poking and poking to get it, than to go under surgery again) they wanted to do a quick surgery to move my port to another location.

vgerbus · September 15, 2007

My port had flipped when I went in for my first fill at 8 weeks out. I was also told that there are many different reasons that port can flip. My surgeon went in through the original port scar and flipped it back. Then at my next fill another 8 weeks out, my port was tilted. It is now flat with the right side up and have not had a problem since. I was worried that since I am a side/stomach sleeper that might have caused the problem but I was told that wouldn't have caused it. My port has migrated up to just under my rib cage and it will hurt in the morning if I have slept on it all night so I am going to see if the PS can move the port down lower when I have my TT done next year.

Valarie G.