Did anyone go home with a medicine ball? If so how long did it stay in?

I had one too. My surgery was on a Wedensday and I removes the ball in Saturday. There was still medicine in it but I was reacting terribly to the latex bandages holding the tubes down and couldn't take the itchiness anymore. I was a bit shocked by the length of tubing I pulled out of my abdomen. I sure am thankful I had it though.

Sorry this sounds like a stupid question what is a medicine ball? Is this like the port?

It is a ball of local anasthetic that you wear like a purse and it has two leads that are under the skin of the abdomen. It allows for constant local pain meds to all the incisions. It is meant to stay on for the first 4-5 days. It was wondeful! I only had to for pain medicine once after coming home.

*use* pain medicine

I came home with one on that Tuesday and removed it that Saturday. I found that it went down quite a bit at night.

I had one too. My surgery was on a Wedensday and I removes the ball in Saturday. There was still medicine in it but I was reacting terribly to the latex bandages holding the tubes down and couldn't take the itchiness anymore. I was a bit shocked by the length of tubing I pulled out of my abdomen. I sure am thankful I had it though.

Thanks I wasn't sure hoe long I was to keep it in the nurse didn't really say...I had my sleeve on the 4th and today is my birthday!!@ bitter sweet!!

I left mine in untill It was completely empty, that was about 5 days. I did not want to feel any pain in my belly and when you take it out it doesn't hurt at all, hope this helps

Medicine ball came out this morning...didn't hurt..however I'm really sore still on that side..still kind of hard to move around hurts when I do

That's normal. Use a heating pad or warm compress. And for a day or so hold that side in when you move around. Weird, but for me, the harder i pushed it in when moved, the less it hurt.

Will try it thanks