Nerve damage near incision site

[Bree 65]

Hi folks.

I got my sleeve a few weeks ago on 3/14 with Dr. Aceves.

One of the incisions was vertical and inside my navel, on the upper part of it. It's pretty much all healed up now but I'm finding I have a mixture of both numbness and sharp tingling nerve pain near it. (note this is one of the small incisions, not the big stomach-pully-outtie incision)

On an area of my stomach, to the side of my navel about 3"x3", I have total numbness. I've closed my eyes and poked around there with a q-tip and it's dead, I have a total loss of sensation. Outside of that numb area I now have strange tingling nerves that freak out and twinge every now and then.

Anyone else experience anything like this?

~B

[Shrinkingmom 218]

I did not have that with this surgery but I have with others and it eventually straightens itself out. It takes quite a long time though. I had sinus surgery 10 years ago and where they made the incision over my eye was across a nerve. The feeling came back in about a year but it has been almost 20 years and anytime my sinuses get irritated, there is an invisible line up my forehead that itches and it goes into my hair. It will drive you crazy. The nerves that are cut may act a lot of different ways but it is nothing to be concerned about.

[Bree 65]

Oh wow well it's good to know I'm not going totally crazy!! TY

[SerendipityHappens 1,594]

I'm numb from the largest incision where they pulled my stomach out of all the way to my navel.. about 5"x4".. Same thing happened when I had my gallbladder out too... but I started slowly getting the feeling back after 6 months or so.

[Pookeyism 1,143]

Your nerves will eventually "figure" it out - but you coould retain some nubness indefinately. My appendix scar is over 30 years old and I still cannot feel the actual incision.

[NewAshes 232]

Totally different from surgery but I had my lip pierced once and it went numb and tingly off and on for a few weeks but went back to normal lol also love my neighbor totoro

[devichan 79]

Nekobasu! I love Miyazaki.

Ahem. Topic.

After my C-section, I was numb from my bellybutton down for about five years. After a while, I got feeling back to about halfway between my navel and my hipline, but I still feel mostly pressure in that space. That was 16 years ago. I don't think I'll get much more back. I'm just really careful in that space, because I'm also prone to skin yeast infections there under my pannus already.