Done standing or lying down. My tech does standing fills which I have heard are quite a bit more accurate and not done as often as fills where you are lying down. Wondered what you had done

Mine are done while standing. So far they have never had trouble hitting my port.

My tech puts the needle in while I am laying down, but the actually fill is done while I am standing up.

I was never given the option....Needle access and fill both done lying down.

Mimi

My doc has me lay down and put the needle in the port and puts a lil saline stuff in then i sit up with the needle in my port and he has me drink water to see if it goes down ok then he puts more in and i drink water again..This goes on til i start to have a hard time or kinda do the gurgling thing lol

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Mine are done lying down. Never had a problem.

me too lying down - never had a problem finding port.

lying down...never had a problem....

I've had both. My nurse was wanted to try out the standing technique and she used me as a guinea pig. She didn't get a clean stick while I was standing up and she decided to root around for my port rather than pull out and try again. The rooting around did not please me one bit and I would have been very happy NOT to have been standing at that particular moment.

I think I prefer them lying down. I find it hard to keep my balance when the nurse pushes in on my abdomen to find my port. Maybe if I were leaning against a wall it would be better....

I stand against the wall next to the fluoro. The needle is inserted and part of the saline injected. I slide over to the fluoro & he takes a look as I swallow barium. Then he adds the saline in increments, observing under fluoro as I swallow after each addition.

Works very well

Only had two fills so far (still in bandster hell), but both times I was lying down.

First the doctor located the port, then jabbed the needle in.

Then he drew out all the liquid in a calibrated syringe to check that the correct ammount was in there. After that he squeezed the blue Fluid back in and added some more.

Whole process was painless on both occasions and cost me £80 each time.

if i'm going in for a normal fill, i lay down but if i'm getting a fill under flouro i stand. i don't think i've noticed any difference other than when i'm given a fill under flouro they can actually watch the fluid flowing thru the band.

Lying down...

All of my fills are done while standing up.

However, my first fill, he tried inserting the needle while I was standing but my port wasn't facing directly ahead, so he had me lay down. Then he found it and inserted the needle, then I stood for the actual fill.

Every fill since, I lay down for him to insert the needle, then stand for the fill.

I'm not lying flat or standing up, just tilted back a bit, so in the middle I guess.

my office has you lay down and lift your legs like you are doig leg lifts,,, once he finds the port you can relax your legs,, he fills and your done.