I seem to be able to feel my band through my skin under my ribcage can anyone else?

Let me rephrase. Can you feel your band with your hand from the outside like I can?

Do you mean your band or your port?

i can feel my port. I seem to want to hold my hand on it, even though it doesn't really hurt. But, i don't feel the band.

Let me rephrase. Can you feel your band with your hand from the outside like I can?

Yes, I was initially told it would go away but I can feel it distinctively on my ribs and have confirmed that it is the port. Not only can I feel it but it sticks out when I stand up. I am going to have it moved when I lose more weight.

You are feeling your port. I can feel mine too. When I lay down sometimes it pooches out. Doesn't bother me at all.

I like being able to feel my port. I like knowing where it is and that it's where it's supposed to be!

Wow, the esophogas and stomach are supposed to be innards...meaning inches from the surface. You have to go thru skin, adipose tissue, etc well before you reach the band. So to feel it.... I just don't know...and see it under the skin makes me think you are a toothpick.

Hope you get answers to these as I am clueless.

I am confused. You mean the BAND, or your PORT. The band is around your stomach, as Grace put it, several inches in. I'd have to press pretty dang hard to feel it.

But my PORT, yes, I can feel it. Everyday when I get up and get ready for work, it's comforting to me to feel my port and see how much it's sticking out that day. I have no idea why. But it is kind of cool and it reaffirms that they really DID put something in there. LOL

At my house, the fact that I have a port and a band makes me the "Bionic Woman". Or the Alien Borg...... Go figure......

I can't feel my band with my hand, but occasionally, for some reason I can feel it pressing on my ribs. It can get uncomfortable. My port is just to the left of my belly button. I have to suck in to be able to feel it good. I can feel it better in the morning. So wierd.

ok so it is probably my port then , thanks guys

OH...... the port.....sorry.

Yes, I can...when I touch the area. My port is positioned...about an inch below my rib...about 2 inches from the center of my abdomen.

Feels like a tiny, tiny baby.

I can feel my port, and with surgery recently.. I hold the area and it feels better

I had my surgery on 12/12/07 i cant feel the band but i can feel where the port is. maybe its just the swelling? i would contact your doctor

I thought I was feeling my band too. I felt a lumpy thing right in the center of my ribs. (Not my port...that's farther down and to the right.) Anyway, I asked my doc about it and he snickered and said that it's definately not my band because the band is too far inside to feel from the outside. I guess as we lose weight we just start feeling parts on our body that we haven't felt for a long time!!!!! I can actually feel ribs and my hip bones too and I haven't been able to do so since childhood!

Okay, so I went back to the YMCA three times in one week the beginning of December and suddenly I had this horrendous pain coming from my right side area under my ribs and I could feel this huge lump. (I sneezed once and what seemed like a ball really POPPED OUT!)

The pain continued for about 10 days (well, honestly, I had to hold my side doing the leg press because of the pain--what did I THINK was happening???:guess)

I was absolutely positive I had a hernia! When I saw the surgeon for my second fill today, I had him check the ball and he said "Silly--that's your port!!" I KNEW it was sewn into muscle, just didn't realize it was where it WAS!

Best part was that my fill took 1/2 a second because he knew right where it was!!

So the answer is yes (to make a long story longer), I CAN feel my port!