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Old Thu Apr 20, 2017, 10:22 PM
Naive Naive is offline
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Replacement of portacath.

After 7 months of complaints that my arm, chest, shoulder and neck hurt when my port was being used. With bruising, swelling, leaking and skin discolouration. I had a portagram performed which I was verbally told was "normal". So I persevered through two more treatments with awful pain. I then refused point blank to have them use my port. Today the oncologist informed me that the portagram showed the port was old and worn out and leaking and extravasating and needs urgent replacement. I'm so frustrated that I had to refuse for them to use it before any action was taken.

Now, because I'm overdue for treatment, they are going to remove the old port and replace it in radiology under local anaesthetic on Monday. I had the last one as a full general anaesthetic in theatre. Has anyone had a port replaced in X-ray? I'm a bit nervous, especially as I haven't had a lot of reason to be confident in the system lately.

Thanks

Carol
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