Port Surgery

anitak33 · April 4, 2008

Hi just wondering how many of you have had to have your port moved or had to get it replaced with a newer thinner one and how much did it cost?

angyl2314 · April 4, 2008

I have had so many problems with my port, including 2 revision surgeries. I am looking for information on low profile ports too. I know they exist...but where?

lucyb · April 5, 2008

I have had so many problems with my port, including 2 revision surgeries. I am looking for information on low profile ports too. I know they exist...but where?

Do ya'll have pain in your port? I am 2 1/2 months out and my port site stays sore, especially if I wear jeans (that aren't REALLY loose) or if I try to do stomach crunches it feels like it's pulling. If I bend over, it seems like my port kind of flips outward. Do yours do that?

slimmy120 · April 5, 2008

Yep my port is around the waist and noticably sticks out, have lost 28 kilos and is more noticable now, as that is the slimest part of me, so yes am interested too.

Angies577 · April 6, 2008

Hi!! Well I have been having problems with my port!!! I tried to get a fill in the office and the doc couldn't get it. I went in to the hospital under xray to have the fill done, Guess what !!! MY port flipped upside down and it is leaking!! I have to have it replaced and they told me that it would cost $5000 to replace it!! I flipped out because it has not even been a year since I got my band in. So they are doing it for $3000.

Has this ever happened to anyone else? My port seems to also hurt off and on again.

angyl2314 · April 7, 2008

Hi!! Well I have been having problems with my port!!! I tried to get a fill in the office and the doc couldn't get it. I went in to the hospital under xray to have the fill done, Guess what !!! MY port flipped upside down and it is leaking!! I have to have it replaced and they told me that it would cost $5000 to replace it!! I flipped out because it has not even been a year since I got my band in. So they are doing it for $3000.
Has this ever happened to anyone else? My port seems to also hurt off and on again.

My port flipped about 3 months after my original surgery. I dealt with it for a long while, about 3 months, before my doctor and I even knew what really happened. I had gone for a fill under flouro which is when he noticed that the port turned because he couldn't get to it. He did revision surgery on me in August. I had to have emergency surgery just 2 weeks ago because my band for freakishly tight and I wasnt eating. When he went to unfill me he realized that the port flipped AGAIN. So it has been 2 additional surgeries, but insurance covered both. However now my port is almost directly under the skin and can be felt and even seen. Before all these surgeries I couldnt feel my port at all...but ugh, now it makes me ill. That's why I am trying to find a low profile port now