Flipped port!

[kma87 19]

Hi everyone. I posted a month or so ago about the troubles I was having with healing around my port site and the difficulties that my surgeon has had getting fills into my band.

I have been to get my second fill and apparently due to the excess scar tissue surrounding my port, it has forced the port to actually flip completely over making it practically impossible to manipulate from over the skin to get my fills in.

He did however after about 30 minutes of extremely uncomfortable poking and prodding did manage to get some liquid in, but has requested a fairly urgent surgery date next week to replace my port from the new style back to the older version.... I have every faith in my doctor, but I had some questions for other people who may have been through this kinds of things.. Firstly) who has had these problems with their port flipping? And secondly) is it possible for to miss the port and inject saline into the tissues, I ask this because as my doc was injecting the last lost of saline It was as though I felt every little bit that was being injected. My replacement surgery has been booked any how, some encouraging thoughts are needed!

[Cindy2013 99]

Wow, what causes a flipped port? Sorry for this happening. I hope you get it fixed quickly.

[kma87 19]

Thankyou! I believe it flips over due to the excess scar tissue that is produced. Everyone's body copes differently to having a foreign object inside them. I Hve had problems with healing from any other unrelated surgery I have ever had. So my guess is that my body doesn't cope well with being tampered with