samsmom10

Use ice regularly. Really helps! Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

Id suggest you go to the ER. It's a way to force them to do the tests you need to have - probably an abdominal CAT scan. Will see if there is any hernia or leakage. Doesn't hurt anything. I have nerve pain from something severed during surgery. I'm on 12-300 mg Neurontin pills a day to calm the pain. It's working, still pain but not nearly as bad. Good luck!!! Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

I was back in the ER for the second time in less than two weeks because of the pain. After 24 hours of tests this week, they finally concluded that a nerve must have been cut during surgery. I'm wearing a lidocaine patch which is helping to some degree. How it heals quickly, Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App

I am 8 days out and had a terrible burning on my lower left side whenever I stood or sat beginning day 2. It wasn't near an incision site, but below left of my belly button. I called the Drs office and spoke to a nurse. They called me the next day to see if I still had the pain. I had the burning pain, but no redness or fever. They told me to go to the ER for a CAT scan. The cat scan didn't show any leaks, torn sutures or hernias, but did show an ovarian cyst. So, the millennial Drs stopped trying to figure it out the source of my pain, even though the pain was in my stomach fat area, not deep in my ovary, and started two days after surgery. Finally, I tried holding a pillow over my stomach when I walked for slight pressure which helped, so I ordered a post-surgery stomach wrap on Amazon (size xxxl so it wouldn't be tight). Worked miracles!! Sent from my iPad using the BariatricPal App