What is the shoulder pain help!

[Shayleen 1]

Does anyone have this terrible pain in their left shoulder? I was bannded on mon Dec 14th and can't take the pain. Does it ever go away

[Yvette1026 0]

It's pretty common and expected.. Both of mine and my forearms hurt, just had surgery yesterday... My neck muscles hurt too... Keep up with the gas-x strips and exercising it out.

[LollyMoe 1]

It's gas pains. Walking and Gas-X strips will help. Take several of the strips at the time. It will get better soon. Hang in there.

[jean47 0]

Does anyone have this terrible pain in their left shoulder? I was bannded on mon Dec 14th and can't take the pain. Does it ever go away

I had my surgery on the 15th and I have the shooulder gas to what a pain in the butt. but today it is better. I went shopping with my husband and walked a little to much so be careful when you think you can go a mile rest and liten to your body.:thumbup:

[Humming Bird 275]

The pain in your left shoulder is not gas/air from the surgery. It only takes 1 or 2 days for your body to get rid of the gas. The pain from the gas from most types of surgeries usually is in the collar bone area, not the shoulder. The pain in the left shoulder that lasts beyond the first day or so is reffered pain from pressure on the phrenic nerve. Mine lasted for several months during the healing process and also was my "full signal" for awhile. I found that menthol pain Patches from Walmart were a great help. Below is a post that I coppied from another banster's post many months ago. I hope this helps .....

Best explanation of left shoulder pain I've ever found.

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If you woke up with a pain in your shoulder, you'd probably think something was wrong with your shoulder, right? Maybe you slept on it the wrong way, maybe you're a weekend warrior who threw the football a few too many times. In most cases, your hunch is probably right. Pain in the shoulder usually indicates an injury or disease that affects a structure in your shoulder, such as, say, your subacromial bursa or a rotator cuff tendon. Makes sense, doesn't it?

But you might be way off. Sometimes the brain gets confused, making you think that one part of the body hurts, when in fact another part of the body, far removed from the pain, is the real source of trouble. This curious (and clinically important) phenomenon is known as referred pain. For example, it's unlikely but possible that your shoulder pain is a sign of something insidious happening in your liver, gall bladder, stomach, spleen, lungs, or pericardial sac (the connective tissue bag containing the heart). Yup - conditions as diverse as liver abscesses, gallstones, gastric ulcers, splenic rupture, pneumonia, and pericarditis can all cause shoulder pain. What's up with that?

Neuroscientists still don't know precisely which anatomical connections are responsible for referred pain, but the prevailing explanation seems to work pretty well. In a nutshell, referred pain happens when nerve fibers from regions of high sensory input (such as the skin) and nerve fibers from regions of normally low sensory input (such as the internal organs) happen to converge on the same levels of the spinal cord. The best known example is pain experienced during a heart attack. Nerves from damaged heart tissue convey pain signals to spinal cord levels T1-T4 on the left side, which happen to be the same levels that receive sensation from the left side of the chest and part of the left arm. The brain isn't used to receiving such strong signals from the heart, so it interprets them as pain in the chest and left arm.

So what about that shoulder pain? All of organs listed above bump up against the diaphragm, the thin, dome-shaped muscle that moves up and down with every breath. The diaphragm is innervated by two phrenic nerves (left and right), which emerge from spinal cord levels C3, C4, and C5 (medical students remember these spinal cord levels using the mnemonic, "C3, 4, 5 keeps the diaphragm alive"). The phrenic nerves carry both motor and sensory impulses, so they make the diaphragm move and they convey sensation from the diaphragm to the central nervous system.

Most of the time there isn't any sensation to convey from the diaphragm, at least at the conscious level. But if a nearby organ gets sick, it may irritate the diaphragm, and the sensory fibers of one of the phrenic nerves are flooded with pain signals that travel to the spinal cord (at C3-C5). It turns out that C3 and C4 don't just keep the diaphragm alive; neurons at these two spinal cord levels also receive sensation from the shoulders (via the supraclavicular nerves). So when pain neurons at C3 and C4 sound the alarm, the brain assumes (quite reasonably) that the shoulder is to blame. Usually that's a good assumption, but sometimes it's wrong.

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Anatomy Notes: Referred pain

Edited December 20, 2009 by Humming Bird
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[Lap_dancer 8]

It's gas pains. Walking and Gas-X strips will help. Take several of the strips at the time. It will get better soon. Hang in there.

I had shoulder pain that moved from left to right or slightly up and down. LollyMoe have you the advice that worked for me.

[Dana36 0]

The pain in your left shoulder is not gas/air from the surgery. It only takes 1 or 2 days for your body to get rid of the gas. The pain from the gas from most types of surgeries usually is in the collar bone area, not the shoulder. The pain in the left shoulder that lasts beyond the first day or so is reffered pain from pressure on the phrenic nerve. Mine lasted for several months during the healing process and also was my "full signal" for awhile. I found that menthol pain Patches from Walmart were a great help. Below is a post that I coppied from another banster's post many months ago. I hope this helps .....

Best explanation of left shoulder pain I've ever found.

permalink

If you woke up with a pain in your shoulder, you'd probably think something was wrong with your shoulder, right? Maybe you slept on it the wrong way, maybe you're a weekend warrior who threw the football a few too many times. In most cases, your hunch is probably right. Pain in the shoulder usually indicates an injury or disease that affects a structure in your shoulder, such as, say, your subacromial bursa or a rotator cuff tendon. Makes sense, doesn't it?

But you might be way off. Sometimes the brain gets confused, making you think that one part of the body hurts, when in fact another part of the body, far removed from the pain, is the real source of trouble. This curious (and clinically important) phenomenon is known as referred pain. For example, it's unlikely but possible that your shoulder pain is a sign of something insidious happening in your liver, gall bladder, stomach, spleen, lungs, or pericardial sac (the connective tissue bag containing the heart). Yup - conditions as diverse as liver abscesses, gallstones, gastric ulcers, splenic rupture, pneumonia, and pericarditis can all cause shoulder pain. What's up with that?

Neuroscientists still don't know precisely which anatomical connections are responsible for referred pain, but the prevailing explanation seems to work pretty well. In a nutshell, referred pain happens when nerve fibers from regions of high sensory input (such as the skin) and nerve fibers from regions of normally low sensory input (such as the internal organs) happen to converge on the same levels of the spinal cord. The best known example is pain experienced during a heart attack. Nerves from damaged heart tissue convey pain signals to spinal cord levels T1-T4 on the left side, which happen to be the same levels that receive sensation from the left side of the chest and part of the left arm. The brain isn't used to receiving such strong signals from the heart, so it interprets them as pain in the chest and left arm.

So what about that shoulder pain? All of organs listed above bump up against the diaphragm, the thin, dome-shaped muscle that moves up and down with every breath. The diaphragm is innervated by two phrenic nerves (left and right), which emerge from spinal cord levels C3, C4, and C5 (medical students remember these spinal cord levels using the mnemonic, "C3, 4, 5 keeps the diaphragm alive"). The phrenic nerves carry both motor and sensory impulses, so they make the diaphragm move and they convey sensation from the diaphragm to the central nervous system.

Most of the time there isn't any sensation to convey from the diaphragm, at least at the conscious level. But if a nearby organ gets sick, it may irritate the diaphragm, and the sensory fibers of one of the phrenic nerves are flooded with pain signals that travel to the spinal cord (at C3-C5). It turns out that C3 and C4 don't just keep the diaphragm alive; neurons at these two spinal cord levels also receive sensation from the shoulders (via the supraclavicular nerves). So when pain neurons at C3 and C4 sound the alarm, the brain assumes (quite reasonably) that the shoulder is to blame. Usually that's a good assumption, but sometimes it's wrong.

From:

Anatomy Notes: Referred pain

Very good explanation! OP, I used a heating pad on my shoulder, it helped a lot.

[BFRIZZELL 0]

I was banded 08-30-07. I have ALWAYS had this pain in my shoulder. I can not figure out if it is when I get full (which is when I feel it the most) or then some days I wake up with this pain. I am not sure that this is normal. It prevents me from wanting to get a fill ( I have not had one since Sept), but I still have the major tightness in my left shoulder. Does anyone else have this problem?

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[Melinco 1]

I'm 11 days post op, and get the pain, usually late in the evening. If it gets too bad, I take Aleve, which my surgeon has approved.

My sister in law, who is an OR Rn, did say that it is from the gas. However, regardless of what it is caused by, if you are in pain, you really don't care, you just want to stop the pain. If your surgeon allows you to take Aleve, I'd recommend it.