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Ports Moving
Has anyone ever had their port move around? I have had mine in since Dec 2004 and never had problems until recently. I have been on weekly Herceptin since Oct 2006 and added bi-weekly Taxol in Feb 2007. The last couple of weeks my nurse has had a hard time accessing my port - we had to use a longer needle one week and used two needles before we were in the second week. Yesterday she couldn't even access it at all and we had to start an IV. She said it felt like it had flipped over. She asked my oncologist if this was possible and he said yes. They had me go get an X-Ray to see the position.
I guess my question is will they have to completely remove the port and put in a new one or can they just fix the one that is already there?
Thanks for any input.
Stephanie
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