I feel silly asking this since it seems so minor compared to a lot of the other stuff people are going through. But I am finding that recently the area directly surounding my port has gotten tender, and sometimes sore. I haven't had this throughout, just the normal burning, pulling sensations during the healing process, but suddenly by the late afternoon the area around and over my port is pretty uncomfortable. I am wondering if anyone else has found this.

I am thinking that perhaps it is just more exposed as I have lost weight and that leaning over my desk is sort of pushing on it and irritating it now that there isn't as much "padding" to protect it. I have tried to be more consious of my seat position and leaning into my desk but that hasn't seemed to help much, yet anyway. Any ideas, comments or suggestion? Thanks.

For a long time after banding if I leaned against something or wore pants that were tight against it, it would get really sore. It still happens to me, but not quite as often.

Be very careful with the area around your port. My lap band was put in early January of this year, the port was removed in March because of infection. This is a very tender area.

If it keeps it up for too long, I would mention it to your doctor. Also, I have read a lot of posts where people mentioned once that had lost a significant amount of weight, they actually switched to a low-profile port.

My port is sore on and off. I can't seem to find a reason for it specifically. It has happened more as I've lost weight tho. Whenever I have any plastic surgery done, I will be asking to switch to the low profile port that has been mentioned. It's a lot flatter than the regular one.

Around my port area I feel like its Brused and I think its cause if I wear pants that rub near it or around it.. or i lean over my deak etc etc or even do to many sit up it tends to hurt more.. right now its not .. but it has a few times

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