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08-09-2006, 06:51 PM
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State: VA | low profile port brand??
I asked my surgeon about whether he uses regular ports or low profile ports. He said that he only used regular, and he didn't believe that inamed made a low profile port for the 4cc band. Does anyone know differently? I'm very nervous about port visibility.
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08-09-2006, 07:01 PM
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Join Date: Apr 2006 Age: 43
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I was banded in Mexico with an Inamed 4cc band and I have a low profile port. Maybe it is just your surgeons preference to us a regular port??
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08-09-2006, 07:10 PM
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Join Date: May 2006 Age: 41
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I have low profile and he can find it fine.
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08-09-2006, 10:58 PM
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#4 | Slow Loser: Now Past Goal
Join Date: Jan 2006
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| I have the original Serial number (copied from my chart) from my Low Profile port and it definitely says "Inamed Low-profile access port."
There ya go.
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08-10-2006, 01:37 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005 Age: 65
Posts: 1,064
City: Knoxville State: Tennessee | low profile port
I have a low profile port but a 10 cc Vanguard belt. I can feel the port...it is very tiny and feels like a little box. I don't think it will ever present any problems. I would definitely want the smaller port. I saw it as compared with the bigger port and there is a world of difference in both size and weight.
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08-10-2006, 02:08 AM
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Join Date: May 2006
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City: Mexico, 7/10/06 State: Mexico, 7/10/06 |
I have an inamed 9.75 cm band that holds 4cc and it is low profile and Dr. Sanchez in Monterrey done mine. I can push and push and push and can't find mine.
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Monterrey, Mexico
Dr. Trace Curry, Cincinatti, Ohio (Fill Doctor)
Inamed 9.75 cm band w/lowprofile mini port
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08-10-2006, 08:19 PM
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#7 | Slow Loser: Now Past Goal
Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 627
|  "Now where exactly is your port again?"
Well. As I mentioned I was switched to a lower-profile (or a Lo-Pro, as I call them) port. Today I went in for a much needed fill which have unfortunately turned into McFill Appts. I waited so long that my parking cost me $11  ! So finally I see the doc and he says, "Now where exactly.... is your port?" I was like... um, it's down there. (I point down, to the lower right.) He's like, "Oh yeah. How'd your port end up down there?" I remind him that it was moved during my Tummy Tuck (I didn't want it up against my waistband)...So he's like, "Oh yeah! It's in a totally different place." But then it hit me. No wonder I'm totally unaware of my port except when I'm having a fill.- I've been banded since time began and
- My port is so far down, it just doesn't ever really bother me.
But it figures. Even in Banding, I manage to be an oddity.:nervous
__________________ Happy Band (And Life) Journeys To All... I'm Actually Past My Goal: From Size 22 to Size 6/8 I've lived in L.A., London, and New York City ...but "The biggest culture shock I've had is going from being an obese person to someone of normal weight." (From my pal Lap-Banded Pal, Rachael )
Last edited by NewSho; 08-10-2006 at 08:21 PM.
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