I am not having another put in. This will be my 6th surgery. No more scars for me..
Posted by Doomer (Member # 11013) on :
How was it discovered that you had a blood clot at your port? Did you port stop working and you could no longer infuse or get blood return?
Did they do a dye study to see the clot? I'm sorry that you are having problems.
Posted by yourtroubl (Member # 11087) on :
Yes to both questios. had Dye study done last thursday.
Had appointment for this wednesday with the surgeon but they called and said it had to come out asap.
Posted by Doomer (Member # 11013) on :
Did they try tpa Activase� (Alteplase) to see if the clot or fibrin sheeth would disolve first before removing the port?
Again, sorry that you are having problems and I hope that your surgery goes well.
Posted by hshbmom (Member # 9478) on :
Hi Trouble,
I'm sorry to hear you're having trouble with your port.
Is the clot under/around the port, or inside the port?
We had port troubles in early August, and it's still causing pain, although the dye study was normal.
I wonder if there could be a clot under it?
The home health nurse shoved the needle in so hard to try to make it flat against the skin that it bent into a 3-4 mm little fish hook. Only the beveled part of the needle bent.
When it was deaccessed the hook tore through the port's diaphragm, but didn't damage it...at least not according to the dye study. It was healing fine before that. Now it's causing 24/7 pain like it's sitting on a nerve & on a bone.
It's sitting cock-eyed and also hurts while lying down...(lying on your side).
The force required to yank the needle out of the port kind of made it move out of place, but it looks good on x-ray. There's no logical explanation of why it's still causing daily pain.
Posted by yourtroubl (Member # 11087) on :
Its just well you know rocephin is my pain drug of choice; lol
Just after 1 week of the antibiotics I feel so much better.