It seems like directly after I eat I have soreness in my port area. I was banded 7/8/08, so I am really new at this and just started eating solids. Maybe it is in my head, I was just curious if that is normal????

Hi, did you mean 07/08/09? If it's 09, that feeling you have is correct, becasue you're only about 3 weeks post op so you will still feel that restriction feeling, give it about 2 more weeks then it'll probably be done wore off. Then you'll be like I was I need a feel. Hang in there it gets better.

Oh woops...it was 09! Thank you so much for replying, I feel better now. I was starting to get concerned! Thanks again

I"m a year and a half out and I still get pain in my port area, but only if I overeat. It's strange because you would think the pain would be up high where the actual band is, but instead, my port area gets very tender if I overeat.

Where is your port located? Mine is on the front of my stomach!

could it be because pressure in the inside ring of the band pushes the pressure all the way through to the end/port?

I"m a year and a half out and I still get pain in my port area, but only if I overeat. It's strange because you would think the pain would be up high where the actual band is, but instead, my port area gets very tender if I overeat.

Oh I am SOOOOOOOO Glad you said this....I am only 2.5months out but I have had this really tender pain near my port incision twice and the only thing I could attribute it to was overeating *slaps herself on the hand*....

I felt it for the first time about a week ago when I was in the shower but thought I had just bent over wrong or something, but after having dinner tonight and feeling really full I now have the pain again...so it must be due to that.

make sense to me if you stretch your stomach out from over eating this will cause the muscles near the port site to move or stretch thus causing the stitches or whatever they use to pull on that muscle it is attached to...make sense to me. I am not an expert but *I stayed at a holiday in express last night*...lol

My port is just below my ribs on my left front.