Right upper arm pain (put on side during surgery?)

[katikati 127]

Do any of you happen to know if it's common to be put on your right side during VSG? I don't know if I was or not. I'm two months out, and I still have a little numbness and pain on the outside of my right upper arm just below the shoulder. It's not bad, and it doesn't hurt unless I press on on it, but it's definitely there. All I could think of was that maybe I was rolled on my side for a while on the hard table. There's just no way it's still soreness from shots. There was never a bruise of anything. I'll ask my surgeon when I see him, but I don't see him until next month and I'm really curious about it.

[Threetimesacharm 1,400]

No, there is no reason to be put you on your side at all. I don't think that pain in your right shoulder has anything to do with your VSG; now if you said left side yes, but not right.

[ckunes 23]

It could be from the blood pressure cuff that they had on you to monitor your pressure throughout the surgery. Happened to me once after my many surgeries . Took a long time to resolve. The doctor said some nerve damage.

[CoreyCan 95]

When I had my appointment with the bariatric nurse at the hospital I'm going to, she said yes you might have pain in your right arm, shoulder, side because they lay you're right arm out (almost hanging) for the blood pressure cuff. Hope this helps. Feel better