My horrible 2nd Fill

woodbox20 · June 19, 2008

So, I went for my second fill today and it was the worse experience I have every had. Maybe I expected it to be peachy every time I had one..but this time it was awful :cursing:!!!! My first fill was about 3 weeks ago and the first couple of days I had a little restriction, but that lasted oh, about 4-5 days. It also took one stick and I was out of the office in less than 10 minutes. So I called my doc and he said come in for another fill. Well, if I knew he was going to stick me 9x's I would have said forget it!!! After the 6th stick he sent me to xray to see where the port was and if it had tilted. When he got the report everything was fine so he tried again with no success. So he sent me to an imaging center to have it done under xray, that was 3 more sticks and no success. Come to find out that every time they stick the needle in the port moves sideways or almost flips over and they can't get in. So, I have to have surgery to secure my port so it stays upright. So, no fill, horrible pain in my stomach from all the probing.

I knew it wouldn't be easy; but dam if it would be like that...but I would do it all again in a heartbeat..crazy huh???

Has anyone had a similar situation or has had to have surgery to repair their portal device? :biggrin:

hazE24 · June 19, 2008

yes horrible!!!1...i went through the same crap about a month ago. my doc couldn't find my port neither. he poked me 5 x's n couldn't find it, so he sent me in another room for a ultrasound to find my port which resulted in getting poked another 3 x's. ahhh i was sweating bullets !! lol ..but after 30 minz he finally found my port n filled me!...who said beauty wasn't painful??!..

woodbox20 · June 19, 2008

Word!!! This is painful as hell!!!! Love those METS huh??? My husband is a huge Mets fan...Happy to say I am a bronx bomber, no matter how there doing :cursing:)!!!!

So I am assuming he (doc) finally found your port area..I don't know if I could go through that again...I rather have the surgery if it will make it easier in the future.

God I miss the east coast....