So today is 10 days after surgery and I still have pain where my incision is. RIght under my incision it's very hard..I wonder if this is normal?? I also have some sharp pain that comes and goes on the left side of my rib cage...I am guessin that is where they put the port. I have my follow-up appt. today THANK GOD! and I am praing that everything is okay...My friend said that maybe I developed a hernia under the incision and now I'm scaredddd!! Has anyone expereinced anything similar??:drool:

I too have a knot under my port incision, the doctor says he thinks it is a seroma - which is a collection of cells almost like a blister but it will self absorb on its own it not infectious.

But I would call and check with your surgeon if you are concerned.

Thank you for your reply abingdongirl...I have my appointment today to check up on it, I was just to worried to wait!! I will post once I get home from the Dr.'s what he says about it.

I am not nuts, but I had a slight panic attack earlier. I took a shower bath. Since the surgery, I scrub better sitting in the tub using the hand held sprayer to rinse. I was fine during the bath. Afterwards, I got the weirdest pain in the incisions. Nothing bad, just odd. I started crying and hit me that I was cut 7 times with a knife and I signed a consent form for someone to do it. I must admit that I tend to over analyze things...my job. It is a burning/itching sensation. The common sense side of me knows that it is the healing process, but the creeped out patient wants to say WTF did I just do. I am waiting for my husband to go to the store, I may just take the pain meds and take a nap. Oh... I ate a very soft scrambled egg about a half hour ago. No problems. I need some protein/energy.

Yea I'm a little panicky too...I can't wait to go to the Dr. later and he says that it's normal...maybe then I'll feel better! The pain is real bad when I am laying down and have to stand up!!! OUCH!!! Or sitting down and getting up also. Even walking sometimes it feels like my muscles under the incision or ripping!! Blah I want this era of the lap band to end.

Adela- I know it will be alright, I think most of us are just going through something that we never expereinced before and really had no way of knowing how to prepare for mentally or physically. I'm sure that there is a perfectly fine non-urgent explanation for what your feeling and that onyl time will heal ( unfortunately) !!

Adela,

Wow, you articulated a lot of how I am feeling, and I am having that same pain in my left side. All of my incisions are fine, but i have the pain on my side often and it feels like a cramp in my side when i walk. . .it's kinda weird, gonna give my doc a call on Monday if I still have it, and if it is worse tomorrow, I will call the on-call nurse. . .but I am glad to know that someone else is experiencing it (sorry :thumbup:) to know that I am not the only one!:wub: My husband is 1 day post op and he has the belching sooo bad! At least I don't have that!

Darce

I too have a knot under my port incision, the doctor says he thinks it is a seroma - which is a collection of cells almost like a blister but it will self absorb on its own it not infectious.

But I would call and check with your surgeon if you are concerned.

I'd be careful about a seroma. I had one after my hysterectomy in 2005 and my doc had a home health care nurse coming to visit me daily to clean and pack it. The way it was explained to me at the time was that the wound needed to be kept open so that it could heal from the inside out instead of healing on the outside before the inside was healed. Maybe one of the nurses around here can speak more intelligently than I on the topic.

the hardeness under the incision i belive is the port... i too have been panicking about everything ..

Ladies,

Take a deep breath and just relax..the hard knot under the large incision ...it is your port...I felt the same thing and I called the doctor's office and the nurse just cracked up laughing...she said, " Honey, that is your port"

Ladies,

Take a deep breath and just relax..the hard knot under the large incision ...it is your port...I felt the same thing and I called the doctor's office and the nurse just cracked up laughing...she said, " Honey, that is your port"

The hardness under my incision was alot larger than a port it was bigger than my fist!!!!! It was actually an infection and I had an absess under my incision which leaked! So be careful..a small know yes but a large one may be an infection....also if the knot is warm or hot, it is also a sign of infection.