Area under port incision has a firm lump -- normal?

[Cheryl Ann 2]

My surgery was two weeks ago, and I'm feeling great. However, when I stand or sit, I can feel (with my hand) a large lump-like mass under my port scar. Since the port is not directly under the skin, what is this I am feeling? Is it normal? It is painless to the touch, by the way. Also, my stomach protrudes a bit in that area.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[lauramarie 0]

hi i have had my surgery 6 weeks now and i can feel my port. it sits just below my breastbone between my ribcage. it feels like a hard lump. apparently this is normal, some people are lucky enough to not feel it but others do. i have just accepted this as a side effect of the band so i am not taking it seriously as there is no pain or discomfort.

[JaimeSTL 4]

I had the same thing. Actually, it is still there. I asked my doctor about it and he said it is the port, even though it is under the skin a bit. I also had a seroma under the port incision. I would ask your doctor about it, just to be sure.

[TerriDoodle 6]

Say hello to your new little friend!.... your port!

[Wheetsin 714]

You're probably feeling scar tissue.

The port feels kind of like a little button under the skin. Very small, very distinct shape/feel. "You know it when you feel it" kind of thing. There's nothing mass-ey about it.

[Ariel 1]

That's the port. For me, a few months after the surgery it was not so big. I think it has to do with swelling.

[Cheryl Ann 2]

Thanks, everyone!

[Wheetsin 714]

If you feel it under the port incision, but your port is placed somewhere else, it's not the port. You don't feel a lump in your arm and assume it's your eyeball, even if it's round. :glare:

The port will feel kind of like a button under the skin. You may have to push semi hard to feel it, and it may be very tender when palpitated.

If you're just feeling a "mass" directly under the incision - my money is on scar tissue. That's what incisions do, scar.

[Cheryl Ann 2]

I decided it was, in fact, scar tissue -- and guess what? I had my first fill today (which was so fast and painless), and asked my surgeon about it (Dr. Christine Ren, of NYU), fully expecting that she would confirm this assumption. And guess what?

It's my port!

[beena 0]

Mine is the tubing I have had my port redone again and was hoping that I would not feel it but low and behold right where the large scar is there is the tubing popping out it it yuck and large and very noticable and everyone cn feel it not just me!! My doctor says its normal but Im going to get a second opinion .....

Beena