Feels like my filler port is popping out

[cdavison 2]

Not sure about everyone else but my filler port seems so close to the skin it feels like it's going to pop out of the skin. Is this normal or should it be more deep under the surface? Just paranoid I might have over done this first week and pushed it up??

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Are you newly banded?

Can you actually see it just under the skin? Is this a new thing?

[cdavison 2]

Brand new 8 days. No I've never seen it, still have liquid bandage over the wounds and they haven't healed a 100 percent yet. Are you able to see it after?

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Ok so you can't see it under the skin? I'm just trying to figure out if it's just swollen from surgery or literally right under the skin pushing upward.

I can see mine but I've lost over 230 pounds so it's to be expected. At the beginning it was too covered in fat to see. And when I say "see" I mean see the bump under the skin.

[Lu_11 52]

Of I remember correctly mine seemed close to the surface after surgery. As time goes by it kinda settles in. Mine doesn't stick out like it used to. I was banded in 2011.

[2muchfun 8,927]

We guys have our ports installed different than the girls. Mine is just under and to the right of my left manboob. It's sutured into the muscles of my torso near the surface. I've always been able to feel mine, and as I lost weight it now juts out more. I'm OK with it though.

[ndyoung77 142]

My dr. calls me the model child when i come in because once i lay back on that bed my port is in plan sight..ive lost 11 inches in the tummy area so they told me the more i lose the more itll be none. I have a little lump when i wear a tight shirt. but it doesnt bother me. i just can sleep on my side that the port is on. its doesnt hurt but its not comfortable to me anymore. .. my dr said once i hit my goal i can have it put somewhere else if i choose to..

[B-52 7,113]

Not sure about everyone else but my filler port seems so close to the skin it feels like it's going to pop out of the skin. Is this normal or should it be more deep under the surface? Just paranoid I might have over done this first week and pushed it up??

The port should be anchored to the abdominal wall - muscle...under layers of fat, and skin being the top layer...if your port is protruding through the skin, as mine is, Rejoice because that means you do not have much, if any, belly fat...

But there is visceral and non visceral fat to contend with....

Also, think about all the stories where Dr.'s can't find the port to do fills, or people having their ports flipped....I know I will never have those problems....port is sandwiched very tightly, in plain site.

I can see every nook and cranny, even the tubing coming out the side, traveling 2-3 inches before it goes deep....

Other people in the locker room at the club can see it very plainly and I get asked now and then what is it...I just say I had surgery and it is an implant...no big deal.

[Kitt3000 757]

Always look for the positive! Very happy mine is quite available to the needle!