Weird Sensation In The Lap Band Port Area..

[angbutler0712 30]

Ok.. So i had just stepped outside to go for a walk when I had a coughing fit and dry heaved at the end. Right when I started to dry heave, I got this god awful cramp in my stomach right below my port incision. It hurt so bad! I thought that maybe I had ripped open my staples. (I am 6 days out of surgery). When the cramp subsided, I felt the port area and could distinctly feel my port. I haven't really been able to feel it since I had the surgery.. Just that there was something hard under my skin. This time I was able to feel the whole thing. Has anyone else ever had this? I hope I didn't cause it to flip. I thought that the port was stitched to the abdominal muscles.. Maybe it was just th cramp pushing it up to the skin?? I have no idea. It doesn't hurt any longer and I can't really feel the port again. Weird.. Thanks Angela

[BaileyRose 13]

I've had a port flip. You could have just popped a stitch or maybe just caused some pain from your abdominal muscles flexing and stuff from coughing and having something sewn in there. Make sense? I wouldn't worry to much about it... Just next time you see your surgeon, let him know what happened and he'll check if out. I'm sure you're fine :-)

[kcf101008 1]

I got a pulled muscle sensation today at my port site. I stretched this morning and thought i did something. What does a floors port feel like? I can fee mine still, always have been able to.

[angbutler0712 30]

I went to the doctors today to have it checked. My port incision site swelled up and has a red ring around it.. The doctor looked at it and said I have a hematoma. Apparently I got a small bleed under my incision when I had my coughing fit that created the hematoma. There isn't anything I can do about it.. He said its not infected and that the body will absorb it. I also mentioned that I felt something rip when I dry heaved and he said I may have ripped my port from the abdominal wall. he said they won't know for sure until they go to give my my first fill in January. If its flipped then they'll have to open me up and reposition the port. Fingers crossed that it didn't flip!!!