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What the HECK is this baseball doing under my skin?!? Seriously, I'm two weeks post surgery...and when I stretch or raise my arms up there is this creepy lump under my skin. Yeah...I know it's the port, but can you tell me if it goes down at all...is it still just inflamed and healing? I just don't want to scare small children on the beach when my soon-to-be-formed six pack has a lumpy alien protuding out.

...I can just hear the children screaming now....oh, no wait, I forgot to to turn my son's night light on!

Gotta' jet!

Jon

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LMAO!!! I had that lump, and I tell you that it normally takes any where from 4 to 6 weeks to settle down. For the most part, I do have a slight lump, now, but since I am not going to be a swimsuit model anytime soon, I don't care much about it being where it is, right below my right ribs.

hang in there...it'll go away.

Linda

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Thanks Linda! Yeah...I know this whole thing is new, and it's a process. I guess it's all just taking some getting used to.

Blessings on your day!

Jon

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I had it too! Still have some of it although it's almost gone. Mine was more like a rectangular shaped box of swollen muscle around my port - blech!

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Well....mine didn't get as big as a baseball....it was more like an extra large golf ball. I was CONVINCED my port had flipped or torn away. It took it a LONG time to calm down some and now, four months out, it's STILL not entirely gone. When I got my first fill my surgeon even commented on how much scar tissue was still hanging around.

Hang tight superdad!

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I could not sleep on my side for 3 months out due to my port. I don't even feel it now unless I drink carbonation and then it's like it wants to shoot out my side. It will go away I promise.

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Im not even 100% sure it is your port. Mine was right under my largest scar and the doc said it is scar tissue, my port is actually lower than the "golf ball" under my skin. I am 71/2 mohts out and still have it - and cant actually "feel" my port under the skin yet.

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I wonder if it scar tissue varies with port location. Seriously, I can feel my port and even determine where the top rim is...theres no question where to put the needle in. My port is right under my right rib...tucked in and safe. No clothing rubs on it and already at 3 weeks post op, I had no trouble sleeping on my side, and I can sleep on my stomach.

Being short-waisted, I am so glad it's where it is, because I couldn't have tolerated it placed in other locations...like down on my side, or right above my belly button...both places would have been compressed by waistbands of whatever I wore. That compression might have been a reason that it could have developed more scar tissue.

I dunno. I do know that some people do develop more scar tissue than others...plus if they had any troubles post op with the site, that could contribute to more scarring.

Linda

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LOL....I loved your post! Well, the World Series does begin tonight so a baseball is very appropriate. Mine was very swollen after surgery and luckily it has gone down and you can't see anything now. Mine never reached baseball size but it was pretty darn close. Hopefully your's will start shrinking before someone yells "batter up!"

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Mine never did any of that. I guess each doctor has a different technique, though, which would definitely affect things. The only way I can find my port is if I lay on my back and start poking around. Its quite deep, which I suppose I'll be happy about after a Tummy Tuck LOL.

Thanks for your post though SuperDaddy - it gave me a giggle :)

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