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Had my Gastric Sleeve on Sept 22 (one month after my husband had his). He has had absolutely no issues. No such luck here. Wondering if anyone is this far out still having issues.

My first night was horrible. I expected this as I was told by many others that have had the surgery. I didn't expect to be so severe that breathing was a chore and caused my chest to seize. Two weeks POST OP I went to Urgent care because it still hurt like heck to breathe and rolling onto or sleeping on my left side was impossible. It was severe enough for the Urgent Care to send me to the ER for a CT scan to see if I had a Pulmonary Embolism. There I was told that the only issue they had was that both lungs were still not completely inflating (Atelectasis). I was discharged with instructions to continue my breathing exercises.

Well the breathing issue has resolved. But I still cannot roll onto my left side without experiencing pain in my upper left quadrant (just under my lower ribs). Occasionally I get a random stabbing pain in the same area. It is the same spot I had the breathing pain. Just went to my PCP for my routine lipid profile. I am happy to say that my overall cholesterol is down 48 pts and all but one of my levels are great and PCP hopes to take me off of my statin in 6 months. The exception is liver enzyme ALT is now at a 50 where it was 28 before (high range is 34). It's not severe enough to do anything other than schedule a follow up lipid profile test in a month but it does have me concerned.

Has anyone else had this happen to them? I have to wonder something (pancreas, liver, spleen) was injured during the surgery or if something else is going on.

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That liver panel level is nothing to worry about. Keep getting your blood work checked on schedule and you should see it come back down. During my 6 month pre-op period, I lost a significant amount of weight and first one and then 2 of my liver enzyme levels started going up. My surgeon wasn't worried, my PCP was a little concerned at one point and did some additional blood tests to rule out a few issues. I did my own research (which my surgeon backed up and said he's seen the same thing) that with rapid weight loss in women it is not at all unusual for those enzyme levels to initially increase before they fall. For some reason it doesn't seem to happen in men.

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Thanks for that heidikat. I hope you are correct. If it wasn't for the pain I wouldn't be worried. My husband was completely pain free by end of week 3 and I still have it.

Shanell thanks for your reply. It's definitely NOT my gallbladder. I had that removed due to gallstones 11 yrs ago. Not saying its not gallstones but the pain is not the same and not triggered by fatty foods like it was before that surgery.

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I have RA and take meds that can elevate my liver enzymes. When my enzymes get way out-of-wack, I also get the RUQ pain. Also, when I'm constipated I get RUQ pain.

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