Back and abdominal pain

aubrey222 · August 21, 2013

Has anyone experienced upper abdominal and back pain after eating? What's the cause! I have no gallbladder or appendix. Normal GI series and normal band position .

NaNa · August 21, 2013

Could you provide a little bit more information? Like when did you have your surgery and what were you eating and do the pain come and go or is it persistant, we are not doctors, so we can't diagnose your problems, we can just try to share the experiences we've had..

Typically back pain can be a variety of issues, it can be a hiatal hernia, eating too much food, or some type of inflammation.

aubrey222 · August 21, 2013

I had my surgery in may of 2012 and then got pregnant one month later so I had a baby in April of 2013. I would say the pain started in June and was on and off for a month everytime I ate a meal not a small snack. It started within an hour of eating and lasted an hour or two

NaNa · August 21, 2013

Did you get your band deflated when you got pregnant? I've heard of so many having issues with restriction after pregnancy IF they did not remove saline prior. Also you got pregnant really early after your band placement.

You could have a hiatal hernia, most don't show up on a normal Upper Gi series, mine did not, they usually can tell with an EGD, endoscopy what is exactly going wrong, you may want to ask your surgeon for an EGD to get to the bottom on your pain.

Good luck!