OH WHY does my back hurt so much!

[BelmontLil 0]

Dead center between the shoulder blades. What is going on! I'm a few weeks out of post-op 5/25, and am doing well progressing on diet (doing soft foods and yogurt now).

My pain can get absolutely excrutiating at night!

I honestly have done NOTHING to injure it. seriously.

Lil

[waynooo 1]

I had the same thing. It went away, but returns at times.

[kelking 0]

Do you have your gallbladder? That was the same type of pain that I had when I ended up getting my gallbladder out. Just like a hot poker was being stuck in the middle of my back. Nothing made it go away...

[bluezfan01 0]

I was told that its the air inserted into your abdomen from when they did the surgery. They try to get it all sucked back out, but there is always a portion they cant get. My DR said to walk and move around, its like having pleurisy....also some people on here have mentioned a nerve that is in the stomach and it causes a pain there...

I hope it feels better soon.

[willowcat 93]

I totally know what you're talking about! I also had excruciating pain at night between my shoulder blades. Funny thing is, very few here seem to have had that problem. I don't know the reason for the pain (though I suspect it has something to do with the nerves from the stomach to the spine), but I do know that it was very, very real.

I would wake up in the middle of the night from the pain, and eventually I noticed that I was also quite hungry. I started keeping a low-fat, mozerella cheese stick on my nightstand. When the pain between my shoulder blades would wake me up, I would eat the cheese stick, the pain would subside, and I could fall back to sleep. Sometimes, putting the heating pad directly under that spot would help with the pain, too (though not as much as eating would help).

Since you're on mushies right now, maybe some yogurt or a protien drink would help? I'm not a medical professional, but I've postulated that the stomach contractions from being hungry activated the nerves to that area of my back (just as the pressure on your diaphragm from the operative gas can cause pain in your left shoulder).

I do see a chiropractor who later told me that the nerves for your stomach originate in that part of your spine. My chiropractor is one of those "hands on" kind of adjusters. For at least the first six months, that part of my spine was always out of alignment.

I've also read on this board that someone constantly had pain between her shoulder blades and eventually discovered that she had scarring adhesions from the band. I think she eventually had her band removed. You might want to do a search for "pain between shoulder blades" and see if you can find her thread.

I certainly don't mean to scare you, but I know when I complained to my surgeon about the horrible pain, he was at a loss and had never heard about anyone having that problem after banding.

I'm a year post-op and haven't had that pain for probably four months now (but I also don't wake up hungry in the middle of the night anymore either--I usually have a cup of milk everynight before I go to bed now). I haven't seen my chiropractor in probably six months. I'd say listen to YOUR body and see what works for you. Good luck!