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[Hope-fully 1]

Good afternoon. I got lap band done 2/7/13. I sometimes feel strange and wanted to know if it is normal.

I have high blood pressure but it is controlled. It is hard to describe but it is like when you played contact sports and got hit some, the next day between your shoulder blades and around your ribs a discomfort. Not really a pain

It is not all the time but if I'm in a chair for couple hours sitting up I feel it. Has anyone felt this. I am also about 18 lbs less than my weight on 2/4

Thanks

[Spaness2012 609]

I was banded on the same day and am pretty sure I still have gas hanging out in my stomach cavity that is trying to get out. I have this dull tightness in my chest and sometimes my shoulder blades. Have you been doing any walking? This seems to help me some.

[Instyle98 240]

I was banded 12/31 and for a long time I felt like I had done a 1000 sit-ups. When I started being more active sometimes I felt sore, almost as if my guts were falling out, but that was also normal. I don't always have the best posture when I'm sitting at my desk on the computer so I would get sore from that too, but that also gets better.

I ate Gas-X like crazy but the best thing to help get rid of the gas seemed to be moving, stretching, the heating pad and soaks in a nice warm bath. Sometimes while I was still in bed I would get up on my hands and knees and stretch in both directions and that really helped. Sounds weird but it helped.

[Breezy11 5]

I was banded on 2/7 and today at work sitting at my desk, I felt terrible pain in my back suddenly. It was so uncomfortable

[Hope-fully 1]

Thanks sounds normal then. Walking does make it go away for a while

[therealme89 54]

yes its normal its just gas pain

[can_do 195]

I was banded on 2/4 and still have that discomfort. It lessens each day.