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i had the same feeling and it turns out my port has flipped! now i have to have surgery again to correct it.

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Oh no Megster. Sorry to hear that. Do you workout or do sit ups? I read somewhere that we're not suppose to do stomach exercises for the first 6-12 months. It increases the chance for the port to flip. One girl on this site said her doctor manipulated her port to flip it back in place??? Sounds painful. I can't wait to ask the doctor in 2 weeks what my "feeling" is from.

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I am also having intense pain in my left rib cage area. Right at the bottom of the ribs mostly on the side to the front a little bit. It started about a week ago, when I had an un-fill due to extreme post-nasal drippage, due to sever bronchitis. ( I am on antibiotics and a nasal spray and advair so I think it's getting better). The pain is really sharp and I can't lay on my stomach or left-side when I sleep. I don't think it's a slip because I haven't had any trouble eating or vomiting. But the pain is really sharp and specific to one spot. Is it possible that my band is pressing on my ribs? or something like that? My port is right under my ribs on the right side, closer to the middle and sometimes that gets a little sore.

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Wow, at lunch I was just having some Soup, and I had to cough and I felt someting in my side kind of Pop or click, and now it hurts much worse. I called my doctors office but the soonest they can get me in is the 28th. They said they couldn't even get a message to my doctor. I'm kind of ticked off about that. They said if it hurts that bad I should go to the emergency room. That would suck. I'll see how I feel after work. I have tickets to a play tonight that I really don't want to miss.

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I just got back from the surgeon's office. I had a similar pain,tugging feeling and I found out I have a hernia there that is causing the discomfort. Just FYI because your problem could be anything! Good luck.

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Thanks allaboutmefl, I am feeling a little better, but it does usually get worse at night and it hurts when I lean back in a chair.

Karen, That is good and bad news, at least it's not your band right? but it does suck to have a hernia, let us know how it goes!

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I have the same weird left side pain. Not in the exact area indicated in that picture. Mine is a little more over to the left side and kinda runs up and down.

My port is about 3 inches to the left of my belly button, so it's lower than most I think... not sure.

My pain is inconsistant. sometimes if I eat too much, or whatever, can't pin it down. I remember reading in all my pre-op stuff (All for Bypass patients btw) that people experience left side pain and that was due to the fact that they had their plumbing re-routed on and mostly on that side. Considering that doesn't apply to us bandsters... I wonder where our side pain comes from.

I'm checking with my nurse practitioner... I'll let you know if I find anything out.

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Yes - it will eventually need surgery. My surgeon suggested waiting a few months to see how it was feeling and maybe doing it if and when I get a Tummy Tuck. It totally sucks and the idea my intestines sticking out of me is totally freaking me out.

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hey everyone i just read mostly everyone's answers to that question. i also have sharp pains on my left side of my stomach. its usually after i eat. i don't understand it. and sometimes it hurts a lot where i don't even want to get up and walk. i have to talk to my doctor about that. i don't think its a band slippage...cuz i am not vomitting but i am eating more than what i am supposed to. i don't understand how i can eat so much and i have a band that fills up to 10cc and i have my band filled now to 8.9cc. i don't get it. maybe i am over eating cuz my eyes are bigger than my stomach and i have to work on that. lol. but i can't really tell when i am full. how do u guys know when you are full? maybe that is why i am having pains on my left side of my stomach...cuz i am eating too much. i don't know. can some1 give me son advice. thanks

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I have the same pain - it's wierd, but I feel that uncomfortable area ia hard underneath - maybe I have just lost enough wieght that I can feel things now, but I haven't felt anything until now and my banding was days after yours 7/18

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my port flipped also and I had the surgery to correct it - it was actually replaced, it was a bit painful for the first week, nothing bad, it happened about a few months after the banding - I went to work but now this little feeling I have it just plain wierd. I've read so much on gall bladder and hernia tonight that I am calling my surgeon tomorrow!!!

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I'm going in to see my surgeon on Thursday. I'm a bit worried, but the pain has begun to subside a little. One of my med school friends suggested i could have actually cracked a rib from coughing so hard while I had bronchitis, and I did specifically feel a Pop when I coughed really hard at lunch about a week and half ago.

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i have the same pain...i was wondering if it was normal...my pain is right near my rib cage and sometimes i rub it to make it go away...its not all the time though just sometimes...and its just uncomfortable pain....it also sometimes goes away when i eat something...i dont kno what thast about...but if anyone find out more info please post id love to know if this is normal im kinda nervous...i do exercise alot so i hope i dont have problems but if i did it wuld be consistent right?

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