Feeling your band

[Kimmy in MD]

I know I have seen posts about feeling your port under your skin, but can anyone else feel their band? Not feel it like it is clenching your stomach but last night my I rested my arm/hand on my mid-section and I felt the band. Let me tell you it freaked me right out because I am a complete chicken about stuff like that; I can't even put peirced earrings into other peoples ears because it grosses me out!

But I really could feel it, plastic and all. WEIRD!!

[Sandy]

that is a little freaky. but hey it means you are getting skinny!

[MamaMichelle]

I have never heard of that, lol but I'm not that skinny yet!! One day!

[Kittycat]

Wow, are you sure? I have never heard of that!

You have a thick layer of skin, fatty tissue and stomach muscles between your hand and the band around your stomach.

If that is what you felt, that's freaky!!

[denisem]

I can feel my port, even since surgery day, but not the band. I didn't think it was possible to feel it through your stomach. That is very freaky!

Denise

[thesuse]

I'm thinking you probably felt a rib or muscle or something else that you probably haven't felt in a while. The top of the stomach where the band is lies behind the liver - and all that is behind the diaphragm and mostly behind the ribs.

Here are a couple diagrams I found that illustrate this part of the anatomy nicely:

http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media...04-32A59CEC.jpg

http://www.upmccancercenters.com/pdq_xml/m...R0000428446.jpg

[nicolek]

Hiya

i think you may have made the same mistake I did and rediscovered your sternum.

I was freaked for about a week until i realized.

[shadiggty]