Wednesday, January 19, 2011

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.

7 comments:

Justawallflower said...

oh my, that is no good! hope it all work out!

-Grace- said...

I hope it's just a really slowwww leak!

Shannon said...

I new that was possible from working with patients of my own but I never considered it as a possible issue I could ever have with my port down the road, thats crazy. good luck!

MandaPanda said...

Hmmm...that never occurred to me. Something to think about.

Just stay focused on your food choices and you'll do fine even with an unfilled band. Hang in there!

Colls said...

I am so sorry, you are in my thoughts. In fact I am sending you positive vibes right now - can you feel them?! <3

Bonnie said...

I'm such a bad blog friend. Can't believe I missed everything going on with you. So sorry to hear about your kidney troubles. Hope you don't need a new port on top of everything else.

Joey said...

Poor girl!