Port Infected

Lynsay

A sad story to tell, but I'm still full of hope.....

I had my band fitted in Prague on Nov 20 07. My stiches became infected about a month after the operation and my local GP put me on antibiotics. Then I found a Bariatric Surgeon in my home town of Aberdeen, Scotland, who's been taking excellent care of me. After Xmas he looked at my port and descided that it wasn't getting any better. Now I'm having an operation to get the port taken out so that area can heal and in 8 weeks I'll have the port re-located. I still haven't had a fill yet, but I've lost 7lbs and kept it off.

Has anyone else had this happen ??
Lynsay - full of holes - Scotland - UK

laurieu

I was banded Nov 17th and two weeks later discovered I had a raging staph infection at the port site. After emergency surgery to remove the port and cut out quite a bit of infected tissue I have an open wound that as of today is about 85% healed but still having to go to the hospital everyday to do the hyperbaric chamber and I am wearing a wound vac the rest of the time.
The Dr.'s are telling me I can have another port, but I will have to wait at least 4-6 months before I do this.