I am a 20 year old female and was diagnosed with lupus about 1 1/2 years ago. A few months ago I had a portacath inserted into the main vein in my upper chest, it has never worked correctly (part of the reason that I got it was so that I wouldn't have to stuck in the arm every time they drew blood or gave me a shot however they can't draw thru it), about 2 weeks ago I was informed that now there is massive scaring to that vein just below the port. My questions are is it normal to get that much scaring? Shouldn't they be using the portacath or have found out why they can't? And about how long does a normal portacath insertion usually take(mine took about 20 mins.)?