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Nadi
10 years agoMember
Best way to correct a flipped port?
Hi all. Has anyone who has had a port ever had it flip over? We couldn't access my port this week. Xray confirmed it has rolled over. I was told there are two ways to fix this: surgery or external ma...
Nadi
10 years agoMember
Hi. Yep had an X-ray to confirmed it has rolled over. They ended up given me Herceptin through a vein in my wrist. But they will still need to access it next round. They haven't mentioned arm exercises just that the Dr could use his hands to grab it from the outside and try and flip it over. Every time I touch it like that myself it hurts a lot. Hopefully as Michelle suggested they will give me lots of meds before they try it. I'll mention the arm exercises and see what they say.