Wednesday Wrap Up 1/19/11 - a leak?

Well, here I am with a deflated band again. Poo.

Do you want to know what the scale said this morning? 217.5. Oh yeah, now that I've finally got that bitch moving again, I have to start all over with fills.

I was a little nervous about having someone besides my surgeon poking around in there, but I figured this guy was doing it under flouro and how hard could it really be? Let me just say, my port area is a little sore this morning. I could tell they don't do these unfills very often -- they actually had to go find a key to a locked cabinet where the allergan huber needles are kept! Crazy.

So the doc asks me how much fluid is in there so he picks the right size syringe. I tell him it should be about 1.4 ccs, since that is what I had from my last fill. Guess. Just guess what he pulled out: 0.6ccs. Um, where did it go? Since he was a pretty cool guy and he already had port access, he put some dye in to see if there was an obvious leak. Nada. Apparently, if I do have a leak, it is a very slow one. This is good, because really it just means if I keep up on my appts and get topped off every couple months, I should be ok restriction-wise.

Back to the leak. I was looking around the internets for some info, and I found a page that talked about how people who have had a lot of adjustments sometimes leak right from the port. Well, you know I am the QUEEN of adjustments what with the two pregnancies and now all my surgeries this year. Maybe I need a new port? I will have to address this with my surgeon when I see him later this month.