just banded

[maestra 0]

Hi all! I was banded Monday and not feeling so great. I can't seem to breathe that well and have awful pain around my collar bone area. SOund strange? Any advise, ideas, support...:help:

[fatandoverit 1]

It may be gas... I would try some gas-x and start walking.

Hope it helps

[maestra 0]

thanks! good luck to you too!

[tanderson 3]

Hi all! I was banded Monday and not feeling so great. I can't seem to breathe that well and have awful pain around my collar bone area. SOund strange? Any advise, ideas, support...:help:

Maestra,

I was banded on Monday as well and have been in a great deal of pain. I don't have any shoulder pain, but I am experiencing excrutiating pain around my left rib cage, about 3 inches below the port. It gets worse at night, better as I start walking and moving in the morning, so I am hoping that it is just gas...I never knew gas could hurt this bad. (It really feels like a broken rib) Hang in there, I understand that 72 hours out is the roughest as the body has reached its maximun in swelling, thus causing more pressure on nerves and such.

[joe7777 1]

tanderson is right, the reason it feels like that is because it is referred pain, it is because of your nerves...kind of like how amputees feel the phantom limb.