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I’m having the common pain I read so much about at the incision next to my bellybutton. How long did this last for you?

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VSG 5/2/18 [emoji92]

Kaiser, Ontario - Dr. Chin

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I think you'll get a variety of answers here. I had almost no pain at my incisions. Good luck to you, though!

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I didnt have pain at first, but at 10 days I developed sharp pain at the main incision site. It felt like there was an embedded knife, and it hurt when I moved. That pain went away after about a week, as suddenly as it came.

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I’m three weeks out and I still have sharp burning pain in my left side. I still can’t bend over or reach down and sitting in a chair or in the car is still uncomfortable. For the first 8days the pain was awful that it hurt just to sit on the toilet and I had to have someone pull up my pants. I don’t have the excruciating pain as much anymore, but I still have trouble getting comfortable in bed.

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Most of the pain/discomfort was gone the first week, though there’s still mild tenderness at two weeks on the larger incisions.

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