I am freaking out!! I need advice......

[Daisalana 33]

Same thing happened to me, in a month or so you'll have a bounce back in your step.

[findingme 0]

okay here is my update. I already lost this post once so I hope I am not posting the same thing twice.

I went to the Dr to see if I retained any of my fill. This was done under floro and they couldnt pull anything out. I was not suprised since I felt no restriction. They then put in a dye with the saline and watched it go into the port/tube/band and couldnt find a leak. They decided at that point to use the omnipaque with some dye and have me wait for a while to see if they could pull all of that out. I waited two hours and go back under the floro. They can't find any puddling of blue (from the dye) outside of the port/tube/band but they did pull out all of the omnipaque which means that it was holding.

Two Dr's were in there the entire time and the both firmly believe I have a small leak that they just cant see. We are now hoping that the onmipaque will hold so I dont have to have the port replaced. He filled me to a 2.6 and this morning I can still fill a restriction. Not as great as I have been (my largest was a 3.2cc fill) but I was not hungry this monrning and am having to make myself eat.

Thanks for the prayers and I will keep you posted. The Dr said I should know in a week or two if the fill doesnt hold. If it doesnt then I will head back to my surgeon in Mexico (he was on oprah on Mon) and have it replaced.

Shannon

[Startingover! 0]

Ok, I'm reading all of your post and getting really SCARED about fills! Do all these attempts to find the port hurt? Do they give you a local or anything? I know every doctor is different, but now I have a couple of new questions to ask my doctor!!

[HarleyNana 10]

Shannon, poor baby! My first fill, actually, my first year and a half was withOUT flouro, but on the first fill, he missed the port entirely. Thank goodness all fills are done under flouro now.

Keep us informed....hugs.

[findingme 0]

Yeah I have always done mine under floro. Know the fills dont hurt. They give you a numbing shot and you cant fill a thing.

If its done under floro it is normally not a problem at all.

Shannon