So, can you feel it in there?

[coolcrystal 1]

Just curious, can you guys really feel your band inside your belly? I sort of feel like sometimes I have that knot in my stomach like when your nervous about something?? and when I have to belch it sort of hurts a little bit.. sometimes I think I can feel it touching my back. HA HA, but I know it's not touching my back.... I mean, it's not like a bad feeling, just a weird feeling. What do ya'll feel?

[sfeiner 2]

I don't feel it at all except when I get something stuck. Then I feel pressure.

[Gibson 7]

I don't feel a thing. Even when I press around the port area. Nothing. I guess that's because I've got two tons of fat squished in around it. =)

[taismommy 0]

I cant feel my band but that dang port has made itself wel known to the right side of my big belly.

[Sue Magoo 71]

coolcrystal:

I cannot feel my band. However, I've always been able to feel my port. It feels like it's only about 1/4" inch below my skin on the top of my belly, just below my ribs.

My band certainly lets me know it's there every time I eat too fast, too much, or too big of a piece. I asked my doctor to show me where my band is and he said it's up under my rib cage. That's right about where I get the golf ball when I don't eat right.

I love my band.

Sue

[beachbum0519 0]

I can totally feel my band and my port. Especially when I bend over in a certain position. It kinda hurts from the pressure. I can also feel it when I'm full. I was poking around last night and I think I felt my port but I really couldn't tell if it was that or my ribs. Weird huh...I'm hoping that eventually it will go away so that when I bend over I won't feel the pain.

[gotmail79 0]

cool crystal, i think the description you gave above is exactly what i feel!! i even understand the "feeling it in the back" statement... i have always been able to feel my port (in fact mine is still a little sore)-- banded 2/26

[jnbwilds 0]

I don't feel the band at all - but I can absolutely feel the port! If I bend over, I can really feel it. With my fingers, I can actually feel around the edge of it.

I told my husband he could touch it, but he was not so up for that! He was so freaked out when I was pregnant, that it was weird for him to even feel kicks or elbows sticking out! So he has no desire to feel the port.

[gainesvillegirl 0]

For about a week after surgery, I felt like my entire chest from front thru back hurt and ached! Now that is gone (today makes 4 weeks post-op). But my port incision is right at my waistline, just opposite my bellybutton. So it still hurts a lot if I sit too long, or drive too long, or my pants rub it. I'm kinda squeamish, so I don't want to touch the area where my port is, but there seems to be little "lump" under my skin where it should be!

[coolcrystal 1]

The feeling is getting better now... This is day 10 and I'm starting to feel pretty normal, though I do feel the lump where the port is, but not sure if it's just scar tissue under there or the actual port; I thought it would be deeper. Sometimes I still get that "nervous lump" as I call it in my stomach, but maybe that's just when I'm full.

It's pretty amazing... Only one time since being banded have I actually felt a hunger pain and that was because I hadn't had anything in hours and was really hungry. I feel 100% satisfied all the time. I hope this feeling lasts till my first fill on 3/25. I wonder what it will feel like with a fill... I wonder if it will hurt super bad when they prick me.. I hope they can find my port okay.. It's funny, before I was worrying about the surgery and now its the fill.. HA HA

[AppleSmith1226 1]

Dont feel weird Crystal I felt the sammmmmmmme exact way LOL ... I just didnt post ... LOL But now the feeling has gone away ... maybe it was just our body noticing that something different or extra is ther... but now I do feel my port ... full fledge!!

[AppleSmith1226 1]

I have been grossing people out lately by saying "hey you wanna feel my port ... LOL ... like it is a 6th toe or something ... "hey I have 6 toes on one foot u wanna see" LOL ... I am such a goof ball at times!

[4jin 0]

I have been grossing people out lately by saying "hey you wanna feel my port ... LOL ... like it is a 6th toe or something ... "hey I have 6 toes on one foot u wanna see" LOL ... I am such a goof ball at times!

:crying: you are funny!!!!

LOL

[StLouisGal 1]

I can feel the port but no clue about the band. I don't feel anything (except when I ate that oatmeal cookie (oops) and then I felt a lot of pressure in my chest and started sliming. :crying:

[coolcrystal 1]

Ya'll crack me up! 6th toe~! LOL.. I wanna see!

And the "oatmeal cookie.. whoops" comment...just the sound of that makes makes me feel stuck and I didn't even eat it. HA HA