Port Replacement

[15 Sept 2008 0]

G'day Happy Lap Banders:thumbup: - I am interested to find out if anyone has had a fill and the doctor has put a hole in the line that goes from your port as I have had this done and just wanting to know if this happens often to other people or was I just unlucky :tongue: Does get fixed on the 2nd Feb 2009 - But had no liquid in my band 2 weeks before Christmas I have gained 3 -4 kgs grrrrrrr which I am annoyed with but I can eat like could before - Can wait for my port to be replaced on the 2nd Feb YAY!!

[openag 0]

I don't know if it happens often but I believe that's what happened to me. Replaced my port in Dec. Easy surgery. I have to do all my fills under flouro now.

[snowwhytequeen 0]

wow what happened to your port that it has to be replaced? I have never heard of that before I am just curious so I can look out for mine I just had surgery on the 9th of this month

[Boo Boo Kitty 3]

I had my port replaced to a low profile port after my Tummy Tuck. I have my old one and it has more than one nick in it. They said it is common to have nicks because they are going in blind. But I was lucky enough to not have a leak.....good luck on your replacement! Did you happen to ask for a low profile port?

[openag 0]

I don't believe a bandster can actually damage it (unless you have a habit of stabbing yourself in the stomach). Either it was defective to begin with or it was damaged in the fill process (most likely cause). Like Boo Boo said they are generally filling blind using the palpitation method.

[CanadianBandster 0]

ECK - good luck! That is only one of my reasons that I refuse to get blind fills

[butterfly81 0]

Wow I no longer feel alone. The same thing happened to me . I had been having problems since October 2009 and finally on December 21, 2009 my doctor let me know that at some time he punctured the tubing. I am so confused , hurt. I am waiting to see if my insurance will pay for the revision surgery but even then I don't know how I will come up with the deductible and copay(5500 total).

[june09bandit 0]

What kind of problems were you having butterfly? And how did they diagnose the leak?

I'm sorry you are going through this.

[untfluter 3]

I'm sorry but that is total BS that you will have to pay for revision surgery since the surgeon admitted that he punctured the tubing.. HE should be paying for the entire revision as you did NOTHING wrong and the tubing wasn't defective... you need to talk to your surgeon about him paying for it...

Wow I no longer feel alone. The same thing happened to me . I had been having problems since October 2009 and finally on December 21, 2009 my doctor let me know that at some time he punctured the tubing. I am so confused , hurt. I am waiting to see if my insurance will pay for the revision surgery but even then I don't know how I will come up with the deductible and copay(5500 total).