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So I had my surgery 7 months ago. I have lost some over 33lbs, but hit a plateau months ago. They did a fill in I think Sept, and I am scheduled for one in Dec. My problem is that I have a pain that comes and goes as it pleases. It started right after surgery, and pain killers didnt really work on it, so I stopped taking them after the other pains from the surgery were gone.

Let me describe pain, on left side, it radiates down, it feels worse if I do exercise, and sometimes I wake up with it. Like something ripping. And I need to hold my side to walk while is there, and sometimes is so bad it almost makes me cry, and I have to limp. I stopped doing exercise months ago, to avoided as much as possible, so that has slow down my weight loss.

I told my doc from the start. He kept waiving it off, it is nothing, gonna go away, just give it time, but no reason why. Again at 2mts after. In July I got tired of being dismissed and ask for a CT scan. He did a swallow test and that came out fine. I told him I knew it was fine, since I didnt had a problem with the band. The pain is on the left side of my body, and it radiates down. I demanded a CT, and he said I didnt need it cause it would not show anything, but since he is not telling me why the pain, he ordered the CT. So that came out fine, and and I ask him again, if all is fine, why do I have this horrible pain. He finally said, after looking at the CT and seeing where the cord to the band is, it must be that I hurt a muscle during surgery and the band cord is hurting the muscle touching it, and it will take up to a year to heal. The whole thing sounded like he knew from start and didnt wanna tell me, cause I had to extract the answer from him. Or he may have invented the answer, cause I showed the CT to another specialist, that said band looks good, and cord should not be hurting a muscle, since it is too soft.

Does anybody had/have this problem? I juwt want to hear from someone else about it. This is really bothering me, since strong exercise is too much for me. I am going to start walking a little again, cause the pain does not come as often now, but I am afraid it will come back to bother me all the time.

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