Can you feel a band even? I know sorry a stupid question I'm just still new to all this and want to get this all down before 12/15 when I meet with a dr.

It is kinda weird, but kinda cool at the same time.

Once you are healed you will not even feel the port. It is so far under your skin that only if you push really hard you will feel it.

Can't feel a thing! Maybe when I get a little thinner I can feel my port but right now I can't. It is a strange feeling, all right!

i am wondering if any of the people that havent been banded yet are scared about anything?

I can feel my port if I put my hand there, now I'm almost at goal its very easy but it doesnt show. There's no discernable bump there. If I lean into something like the kitchen bench and hit my port it might be uncomfortable and the cat has a terrible habit of standing right on it when she jumps on me to begin her morning begging for food.

Sometimes, with very strenuous exercise it can hurt a bit - like a stitch, more of an annoyance, rather than pain. But overall it doesnt bother me at all.

hey lila do you know how to get my ticker to show?

thanks pattiriciat

You can't feel the band or the tubing. I can feel my port. It feels somewhat like a nine volt battery has been implanted under my skin.

ok anyone how do i get my ticker to work?

thank you patti

Mine was very painful for first week..I'm two weeks out today and I have no pain whatsoever.

I sure feel my port...but my surgery weight was 182=was under BMI of 35. The first 2 weeks after surgery I had some port pain but now it just kinda feels like a 9volt battery right under the skin. My kids said it feels gross- but its my reminder of what used to be and what is just ahead for me! BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!

Hello everyone!

I haven't been banded yet so I'm very nervous! I'm more scared about the band around my stomach than the port area. I don't want band erosion or slippage and I don't want to PB...but I wanna lose weight!

WOW Carlene...great minds think alike! I just was looking over the post and saw I said the same thing you did-almost word for word! Sorry!

My port never bothered me. At first I couldn't find it, was afraid to press too hard. But now, since I'm almost at goal, I can see and feel it. Doesn't bother me a bit.

Carol

Yesterday I spoke with a patient who we've been seeing for 3 months, who just happened to mention her LB to our receptionist. I had no idea... anyway the receptionist told her I was looking into it also, so I caught up with her yesterday to talk about it. When she showed me her port site and let me feel it, I was really surprised by the size and hardness of it... I guess I expected a little bump, if anything, and that it would be squishy, more like a pliable plastic bulb. My question is... well how do I put this. Does it interfere with um... relations?? It won't stop me from having it done, but that would stink LOL... Thanks!

My port is on the side of my stomach! Not in the front like normal. Right the longest cut is the port? I think it is it bc it is black, blue and yellow. I just got banded on the 26th. I don't know about feeling my port but I will be gland when I can feel those bones in my chest/neck area again:)