Re: Will be gone for a few days

[Guest guest]

I hope everything works well for you Leanne. I myself have a port in

place...the last attempt to get an iv in was a sad sad day. A nurse

at each foot trying to get a vein..and geez that hurts, the doctor

working to get my femoral? artery in my groin with a needle that was

too short (apparently my arteries also are small and deep inside my

body) hitting nerves, and a nurse at each arm (even though one arm

has a clot in the left subclavier and was to be only used for an

extreme emergency..they got a small vein but it blew as soon as they

tried to flush saline into it). I was in tears, so was one of the

nurses, and the doctor herself was crying all because they hated how

much pain they knew they were causing me. What was ironic was that

only a week before I had my central line removed because my

oncologist thought it looked infected..and he tried to pull it out

with no anaesthetic, in his office, he actually had his knees on the

table I was laying on, my fingers were white from gripping the

table, but one would think that the doctor should have known that

the line had a cuff under my skin to keep it from being pulled out

accidently by me during everyday living...

So back to my original message. When they put in my port, they just

sedated me lightly, a small amount of verced, and much local

anaesthetic. I didn't feel much but a slight bit of pain and at the

mention of it, they plied more local into the site. It took about 30

minutes. Some doctors do it under heavy sedation as that is what

they did when they put in my cental line...but I think most don't.

You will love having the port..no more problems with sore veins..but

mind you there are some tests that hospitals just refuse to use the

port for..one being a CT scan..can clog the port, so they will try

everything to get a vein for that test. And it just requires an RN

to flush and Heparinize it once a month. Mine is a year old and

going strong.

[Guest guest]

,

You sound so much like me. My last ERCP they ended up putting the

IV in my Neck.

I can't have the IV Dye for CTs I am allergic to the dye- they have

to give me large amounts of Pred- if they do one and then I have to

stay on pred for 3 weeks to wean off of it. They don't even bother

with it any more.

Leanne

> I hope everything works well for you Leanne. I myself have a port

in

> place...the last attempt to get an iv in was a sad sad day. A

nurse

> at each foot trying to get a vein..and geez that hurts, the doctor

> working to get my femoral? artery in my groin with a needle that

was

> too short (apparently my arteries also are small and deep inside

my

> body) hitting nerves, and a nurse at each arm (even though one arm

> has a clot in the left subclavier and was to be only used for an

> extreme emergency..they got a small vein but it blew as soon as

they

> tried to flush saline into it). I was in tears, so was one of the

> nurses, and the doctor herself was crying all because they hated

how

> much pain they knew they were causing me. What was ironic was that

> only a week before I had my central line removed because my

> oncologist thought it looked infected..and he tried to pull it out

> with no anaesthetic, in his office, he actually had his knees on

the

> table I was laying on, my fingers were white from gripping the

> table, but one would think that the doctor should have known that

> the line had a cuff under my skin to keep it from being pulled out

> accidently by me during everyday living...

>

> So back to my original message. When they put in my port, they

just

> sedated me lightly, a small amount of verced, and much local

> anaesthetic. I didn't feel much but a slight bit of pain and at

the

> mention of it, they plied more local into the site. It took about

30

> minutes. Some doctors do it under heavy sedation as that is what

> they did when they put in my cental line...but I think most don't.

>

> You will love having the port..no more problems with sore

veins..but

> mind you there are some tests that hospitals just refuse to use

the

> port for..one being a CT scan..can clog the port, so they will try

> everything to get a vein for that test. And it just requires an RN

> to flush and Heparinize it once a month. Mine is a year old and

> going strong.

>

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