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Short Waisted

I am wondering if anyone else out there shares the same problem I have? I am pretty darn short waisted and two of my incisions are right at my waistband. I know one was just an access point for the doc's instrument, but one of the sites is my port. Anyone experience this? What kind of problems if any have you had w/your port site because of the constant rubbing and pressure?

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Ouch! My port is right at my waist. And I'm short waisted. The incisions aren't a problem...they are in a small arch across my stomach. Even the port incision is above my waist band. But the actual port gets squished if I sit just so and it's a bit aggravating at times. On the other hand, I like my port and it's location, I guess just because it's MY port. So I tolerate it.

Many of the pants are low waisted these days, and that's helpful, but anything is in the way. Oh well.

I'm short waisted. The first year it was pretty hard for me to wear jeans with a very tight waist-band. Even today, 2.5 yrs out, if I sit bent for too long or wear too tight waist, I'll still get sore on occasion. Some exercise also tends to make me tender, but good news.. you're port migrates as you lose weight, so things do get better..

I am short waisted too. My port site is just above my waist. Sometimes I worry that if I bend over, the waist band of my jeans will push on my port and flip it. My doctor says that this is very unlikey to happen.

I am only about 3 1/2 weeks post surgery and my port site is still a little tender but it feels sooooo much better than that first week or two after surgery!

I'm long waisted -but if I poke around in my belly button I can feel my port. It's pretty low. I don't worry about it though because I am probably never going to wear a bare midriff!

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