I only needed three months of chemotherapy, and didn’t do a port at first. I had my first infusion through a vein and at the very end of the treatment, the vein blew and my arm hurt for an entire week. The nurses recommended I get a port and I never regretted it. I only used it once for chemo and then had to stop chemo, but I was hospitalized multiple times and had multiple surgeries over the next five months and they used the port for all of my IV treatments and meds. I also had a PIC installed for nutrition. I would definitely recommend it. I had some pain after the port placement but pain meds helped