Left shoulder pain when running

[silly_weasel 39]

Hi, has anyone experience left shoulder pain while running? It feels like the pain I would sometimes get when I eat too much...and I know that could hurt your band. I wonder if I can keep running without hurting something? Before the band, I would get pain in my left side sometimes when I started to run. Could if be the same kind of pain??

[DELETE THIS ACCOUNT! 12,703]

You need to get into your doctor and checked out. Don't assume everything that comes up or goes wrong is band related.

[toritz 64]

I am 10 months banded and about 2 - 9 months I got the left shoulder gas pain during a big workout spinning, running etc Now in month 10 it seems to happen less and less....... again this is just my experience

[B-52 7,113]

Are you still overweight....have a lot of excess skin, fat layers?

Although I tried, I could not handle running untill I dropped about 80 pounds, and a lot of the sagging skin......the pounding I took was unbearable....

Running is one of the exercises that will work the entire body from head to toe...including every joint.

[GuyMontag 1,264]

When I run my band tightens up a lot. It could be you getting tighter when you exercise.

[silly_weasel 39]

Thanks for your input everyone! Got on the cross-trainer today for 40 minutes - no pain! Maybe I just overdid it trying yo run.

[GuyMontag 1,264]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referred_pain is something that bandsters often live with.

[620to? 23]

hi, i had my pre surgery consult with dr yesterday. i asked him about this type pain as i've read others talk about it. he said a few of his patients have mentioned it in conjunction with over eating. he'd not heard them complain of it in exercise and not as a chronic ongoing pain. i was relieved to hear that, walking, swimming and hiking have become a part of my life and if the band would bring pain to these activities i'd have to seriously reconsider my decision to move forward with surgery.

is this becoming a chronic thing or only occasional?

[sp1587 27]

I do all of the things you've mentioned and only have shoulder pain from preexisting issues. I have experienced the same shoulder pain in relation to eating or being hungry, and once when I was running up Mt. Kilington at a recent Spartan Championship- but it soon went away with some Water and stretching. Learning some stretches to help is good, but sometimes it is nerve pain from your stomach appearing in your shoulder.