Hi everyone, As I get closer to my surgery date, I find that I am wondering how my band is going to feel. I would like to hear if you feel the band and port under your skin, particularly when losing weight. This might be silly, but it is among the 1000 things I worry about when thinking of the surgery!! Thanks for any responses

I cant feel either one, but still a long way to go

Hi everyone, As I get closer to my surgery date, I find that I am wondering how my band is going to feel. I would like to hear if you feel the band and port under your skin, particularly when losing weight. This might be silly, but it is among the 1000 things I worry about when thinking of the surgery!! Thanks for any responses

I can't feel mines yet but I have felt someone's before and I do believe the more weight lost then yes u can feel it more but it doesn't stick out of ur skin

Well, I am only 3 weeks postop, and I can feel both the band and my port. I was curious about this weird feeling behind my breast bone and asked my dr about it and he said that it is indeed the band that I was feeling, but not it around my stomach, instead I am feeling it rubbing against other things in there. It does NOT hurt, it is just weird and it does NOT happen all of the time. I do feel my port right now, but I have been assured by a few people that how I feel it now will not last. Right now if I bend, pick something up, or say kneed and roll out bread I can feel the pressure of where it is sewn in. I can also feel the bump from the outside too. Again, they do NOT hurt, just weird to feel this hard object that totally resembles the feeling of a baby pushing a hard body part against my tummy :-) Hope that helps (although yes, everyone is different!)

I can (physically, with my hand) feel my port and have been able to feel it since surgery. Mine hurts occasionally when it's cold or damp out, thats the only time I can "feel" it internally. It's kind of like when you've had a broken bone and it acts up when the weather changes. The more weight I lose the easier it is to find and feel with my fingers. It's not sticking out or anything, I can only feel it when I go looking for it. As for my band, I can't feel it internally but I think I may have felt it once or twice while laying on my back with my fingers, but again I was looking for it, it wasn't very easy to feel. I don't mind being able to feel my port, it doesn't bother me or get in the way. I actually kind of like being able to find it myself so I know it's still where it should be lol, plus my doctor finds it easily too during fills.

I will be 8 months post op on the 14th. When I first had the surgery I couldn't feel my port at all, but now that I've lost almost 60 pounds it will bug me if I lean up against a hard surface, like the kitchen counter (my surgeon placed it a few inches below my belly button). The band feels a little tight in the morning but otherwise I forget it's there (except when I'm eating of course!). You should never be able to feel the band under your skin.

The band I can't feel... except for when I get a fill and I feel a little tightness (not pain or pinching or anything like that...just a slight squeeze), which is actually really cool! My port I can feel a little, especially if I lay right on it. It just feels like when you lay on your phone or the remote, you know something's there but it doesn't hurt or anything. My port is on the left hand side of my stomach, right under where my rib cage ends. I think it's a great place for it. My surgeons amazing. Going to see him today at 3 for my 3rd fill!

I'm 2 years out. I can't feel the band at all though I know when it stops me from eating too much. I can feel the port. It's a hard little disk smack dab in the center of my belly. Sometimes if I bend over the wrong way, I can feel it try to flip. It doesn't hurt. If I wear pants that are too tight, there is a perfect red circle where it is because the skin can't sink in from the pressure the pants rubbed it raw LOL. It's a very minor thing and you really don't notice it at all.

I can't feel either. In the beginning I had to question if my surgeon actually put it in!!lol Now I feel restriction, but not the band itself. I wouldn't worry about it. Just focus on your lifestyle change.