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Adjustments Aren’t That Complicated: How They Work
So far, we’ve talked about adjustments a few times, and a few things might make them start to sound like scary procedures. For example, they have to take place through the access port, which you’ll remember is attached to your stomach muscle under your skin near your belly button. Plus, you can’t do them yourself—your surgeon must do each adjustment, and it requires a needle.
You may be pleasantly surprised to learn that adjustments are actually no big deal. You can get them done in a regular office visit, and you’ll have plenty of those anyway during your aftercare. Your surgeon just uses a thin needle to access your port and withdraw or inject saline solution, depending on whether you need your band inflated or deflated to speed up weight loss or reduce restriction.
Because your access port is not visible, your surgeon may have a little trouble finding it. Your surgeon may be able to find it by pushing gently on your abdomen, or you may need to have an x-ray so that your surgeon can find it. If you are getting an inflation, the surgeon will fill a syringe with saline solution and use a needle to push the saline into the access port so that it goes through the connection tubing into the gastric band. If you are getting your band deflated, the surgeon will withdraw saline solution from your band.
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