Banded aug 18th and went for first fill today but nurse couldn't find opening in the port despite repeated tries and 2 different needles! Got an appointment to see the surgeon on tues but I have no idea what might have gone wrong. Anybody had a similar experience?

I think I remember reading something about a port turning around -so a search and see what comes up. I think they can fix it right there. If there is any problem insist of s fluro fill where through an xray they can see excatly what's going on. I wentto a Center of Excellence and they did the first fill via fluro-it was cool seeing the water go down through the xray! I wouldn't panic- yours might be difficult to locate-I always have to sit up a little for them to find mine.

Good luck!

My surgeon had me bring my head up like I was going to do an abdominal crunch. He said it makes it easier to feel the port. I work in a health care facility on if the surgeon has difficulty finding the port he does use fluoroscopy (type of xray) to find the port and do your fill Good luck!

My Dr also had problems find my port, after 2 failed attempts and a large amount of bruising poking and prodding to find it, finally went in under flouro and got my fill, just ask for a fill under flouro, if you Dr will do that

They always have problems finding me ! So, your not alone.

Last time was about 6 sticks, and a Nurse not a Tech found it.

They now have it figured at 3 fingers wide beneath my incision.

Otherwise Fluoroscope works ! No problems at all.

Hope this helps.

Thanks for the replies. I see the surgeon on Tuesday so hope it will be ok. I am in the uk and we don't have centres of excellence, especially on the nhs. I just hope they can do flouro there and then.