Sharp Pain.. Please Help?

onyx26 · April 23, 2007

hi there i was also banded on the 16 april 2007. i have a pain in my left side also. should i get this checked out

ibchelle76 · April 24, 2007

I was banded on 4/17/2007 and oh boy I have those same pains mostly on my right side - and every day or so I will role over and oh Boy here comes the gas - it was so loud it scared more poor cat off of my bed but man did I feel better and today it's back again bad but I just try to deal with it cause my doctor said it is the CO2 working it's way out of my diaprahm and stomach - Gas X does not work for me - So I guess I will be patient

myfoursons · April 24, 2007

I had a pain under my ribs on my left side that was excruciating if I breathed in too deeply or moved a certain way. My doc said it was from the diaphram getting irritated during surgery. When they go in they bump it and rub up against it and it gets inflammed. It took awhile to go away, but it eventually did.

Daisalana · April 27, 2007

That sounds about right I did finally call my doctor yesterday and explained it to them. I told them the ER results (blood work was fine, CAT scan showed nothing) they asked if my stomach and chest were both scanned, I said I assumed so.. because the girl said she noticed my missing kidney (it's not missing, but it's way out of place so no one sees it on routine checking), and the lap-band. She told me to keep taking pain meds (called me in more liquid lortab), and DO NOT lift anything heavy and DO NOT do anything to strain my stomach.. so I've stopped with the housework for now. It is better today!! Normally eating makes it soo much worse, now eating does bring on the pain but it's a lot less than it has been. I tried gas-x too, it did nothing for me too. I had bought 2 boxes of gas-x strips from all the posts I'd read about needing it post-op, but if I ever had pains related to gas (I can't tell the difference in the different pains), the gas-x didn't do anything for it.