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Port pain - 3 months post op

Hi All

I thought I bring this up here and ask for your insights before I rush to my doctor.

In the last couple of days I've been feeling a dull pain roundabout where my port is. Now you need to know that my port is not on the side, but right bang in the middle, just below there little bone where my ribcage meet (called the Xiphoid Process, I think). That's a new positioning technique championed by my doc especially for those who's planning to get pregnant later.

The pain comes and goes, but it's giving me a headache - I haven't bumped into anything, I did not do abdominal stretches and I know in fact (because I asked) that my shallow profile port is actually stitched to my muscle wall from the inside.

So why does it hurt out of sudden 3 months after surgery? The scar is healing ok, and the pain seems to come from inside, not from the surface.

Any ideas?

Thank you,

Kris

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Kriis, If it bothers you bad enough to be worrisome, I'd go see my surgeon. I'm only a few days post op and have no tenderness around my port at all.

I'd think 3 months should be plenty of time to heal. Good luck and I hope you're able to resolve this. Let us know how things turn out.

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