port area sore

marivan · October 3, 2008

I've had my band for almost a year now. Just in the past few days it has gotten sore. My port is just below my belly button, and I wonder if it is possible that I've just bruised the area while working out? It's not a great pain, but it hurts slightly when I bend over and I feel it while I'm sitting down.

Has anyone else experienced their port hurting so long after their operation?

Thanks,

Mary

so done with it all · October 3, 2008

You could have hurt it from exercising. If it's red at all, you could have a port infection so you should contact your surgeon if that happens.

marivan · October 3, 2008

It doesn't seem to be red at all. I've bumped it bofore and given myself a bruise, but this is different. I'm thinking of going for a small fill after Thanksgiving (Canadian) so I will ask them about it if it is still hurting then. May also ask them anyway even if it isn't!

Thanks,

Mary

Yasmina · October 31, 2008

I have had that, I am not really sure what happende, but I was doing a little gardening , and boom lots of pain in the port area. I was not red so I thiught because I was bending over it might have bother it. Well the next day it was much better and by the evening it wes gone. I do also get pain if I carry something that is heavy, I don't do that anymore:rolleyes2:

marivan · November 12, 2008

When I went for a fill, I asked the fill nurse if she'd heard of that and she looked at me like I was crazy! She said "no, it shouldn't hurt so long after surgery". But like you said Yasmina, it hurt for a day or two and then it went away again. I do tend to balance things (heavy things) on my stomach when I'm carrying them, and that's where my port is. So I either shifted it during exercise of was doing something silly like that. Either way, the pain went away after a couple of days.

Thanks for the replies.

Mary