Hello all! I was banded on Jan 14-09 and have been very excited and happy. However, my port flipped over. Has this happened to anyone else?

how do you know your port has flipped over? have you had tests done?

can they still give you a fill or do you have to have another port put in?

good luck hope all goes well for you

They tried to give me a fill and hit metal. When looking at the xray, he could see it was flipped over. I was scheduled to have another surgery to fix it last Friday, but my Dr decided to check it before going in and it was flipped back to the correct position, so they didn't do the surgery and gave me my first fill. I had been having a lot of pain in my abdomen where the port is, and on Monday last week I could feel what felt like a "ridge" or the edge of the port, not a flat surface. On Wednesday nite, I couldn't feel that anymore and the pain was gone. Now, last nite I started having the pain again and can once again feel the ridge. Am I crazy or what?

That is so strange, tell your dr again what is happening, they might say if they can get a fill in then its ok, but its not ok if you are in pain cos of it,

i know when i lay in bed at night around my port area my tummy goes tight like if my skin/fat is shrinking, its a bit hard to describe, can be a little uncomfortable but not painful, i turn over & it eases off,

i wish you all the luck with yours, maybe someone on here has/is having same experience as you ?

The same thing happened to my husband. He was banded 01/16/09 and is scheduled for surgery to flip his port on 03/20/09. He is so dissapointed and so hungry as he has been unable to get his fill. I pray his flips back to place so that he does not require surgery.

Hello all! I was banded on Jan 14-09 and have been very excited and happy. However, my port flipped over. Has this happened to anyone else?

It happened to me. I went in for my first fill and my doctor had trouble accessing my port. It was clear from the flouro that it had flipped.

I have since had it revised and had a fill at the same time. I am much more sore in my port area this time than the first. My doctor says this is normal since he had to extract the original port and then stitch in the new one.

I have continued to lose weight at a slow and steady pace. I attribute this to staying between 1100-1300 calories most days, even when I know I could take in many more. I eat Protein first and I think that is key to being satisfied on less food than I could eat.

Tell your hubby there is light at the end of the tunnel and this is but a bump in the road. If I can be of any help or if you have any questions, feel free to PM me.

Take care!

It happened to me. I went in for my first fill and my doctor had trouble accessing my port. It was clear from the flouro that it had flipped.

I have since had it revised and had a fill at the same time. I am much more sore in my port area this time than the first. My doctor says this is normal since he had to extract the original port and then stitch in the new one.

Hello all! I was banded on Jan 14-09 and have been very excited and happy. However, my port flipped over. Has this happened to anyone else?

I had my surgery 2/20/09, went for my first fill and my doc couldn't hit it, which is unusual, acording to him, his office staff and my research. He said he would get me scheduled for a fill under fluro, but it took his staff 3 weeks to get me scheduled (and that was with me calling several times a week, an telling them he gave me a day, they just needed to get it on the hospital's schedule!). I finally got my appointment, went in this morning, and everything looked ok, untill he tried to do the fill- it was totally upside down! When he was trying to do the fill, one time the port angled a little, and you could see the metal back is now on top, so, no fill for me! I wonder how long it will take for them to schedule this?

He didn't say anything about changing the port, just flipping it back and repositioning it, do they have to replace the port? I don't know that I really care one way or the other, I just hate to think it never even got used!