I couldn't find a thread that could answer my question. I'm 6 days post-op, and my port is really itching. It's still a little sore, but mostly itchy. I am assuming it's just in the healing process, but I just wanted to see if there were other people that had itchiness too!

I was banded on the 28th and by Monday I am itchy too! I go to itch and I am bruised so then it hurts or since the Steri Strips have all come off, I rub a scab and think I am making the scar worse. My main incision is bigger than i thought about 4 inches to the left of my bellybutton, but the other ones are TINY! Who knows maybe there is a bikini in my future!

oh im glad ur steristrips fell off too. mine were gross and bloody and fell off yesterday. im glad your port is itchy too! yeah for healing!!

I haven't been banded, so I definitely can't speak from that experience. I DO , however, have very sensitive and often itchy skin. As soon as I scratch I get welts and red marks, so I was forced by my mother to not itch as a child.

Instead I learned how to tap. I know tapping hard on the port might be a bad (or painful) idea, but if you firmly tap repeatedly you can confuse some of those nerves around the port and they won't itch anymore. Hope this helps for you. After about 15 years of practice I'm finally starting to NOT scratch !!

-Cate