question about port....

magooz07 · October 25, 2007

Hi everyone,

I have some questions about what I'm noticing with my port, it seems for the last few days my site where the port is that it looks alittle more swollen than usual (surgery was 9/25) and it is feeling achey has anyboby had any of these problems/

4leafclover · October 25, 2007

I had my surgery on 9/26/07, and I too have been hurting in my port site WAY more than usual for the last few days. I was also wondering about it. I'm not sure it's swollen--don't think so, but it does hurt alot more lately, when before it wasn't bothering me.

Julie1 · November 1, 2007

I wanted to share something with you guys .... I was banded on Oct 1st so tomorrow marks a month. I have been having problems with my port cite incision. It looks healed and then looks very angry the next day. After showering it oozes a little... it's placed right at belly button height so my pants seem to rub against it. I wasn't too worried since it wasn't hot and I wasn't running a fever... low and behold... TODAY it looked really angry so I decided to take a digital photo (or two) and email them to my doc. I didn't want to be one of those chics that keeps calling the office ever 5 secs saying "is this normal"??? and bothering the busy office with petty problems.

I had also been on here, and asked fellow bandsters about port problems and was encouraged to get it checked out.

So, I get an immediate phone call back from the NP in my surgeon's office. It turns out that the port is too superficial since I've lost 19.5 lbs this month. And it's kinda wanting to bust through and not letting my incision heal... I'm no booked for emergency surgery tomorrow to be "re-ported" does that make me a "reporter"??? LOL I was also started on antibiotics today as well.

Anyway, I just wanted to share just in case anyone else was going through something that they didn't want to make a "big fuss" over. I'm sure it would have been the same outcome even if I had spoke up earlier, but sometimes you never know.

Thanks for everyone who pushed me to not be such a slacker and get it checked out. I honestly thought it would get better soon... but my soon never came.