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I am having surgery to repair my right shoulder rota tor cuff as it has caused me more pain then the Gastric Sleeve and Hiatal hernia repair surgery did. I am on pain pills daily with little relief so I don't want to put it off any longer. I will be a day shy of 7 weeks post-op (Sleeved on Dec 26, 2018). Anyone else on this forum have a surgery following your bariatric surgery? If so how did it go? Do you feel it caused more Hair loss? I know this is going to slow my weight loss down as I will be limited in my exercising. I am right handed and it's going to be challenging to to use my left arm for everything. I'll make sure I get my Vitamin and supplements along with Protein and Water as I fear having another surgery so close will wreck havoc on my hair. I will also have my first Grand baby born at the end of March or early April. Hoping that I will have healed enough and have use of my right arm to hold that sweet baby girl.

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I have not had a second surgery, but i wish you a quick recovery so you can play with the grandbaby in March!

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My labrum in my right shoulder was torn half way around and I was looking at surgery to fix it. In fact, that's one of the reasons I had WLS - I felt like I was too big to take care of some things left handed after my shoulder surgery. Both my sleeve surgeon and my shoulder surgeon were 100% comfortable with my having shoulder surgery around 6+ weeks after WLS. Luckily, somehow my shoulder has been feeling much better since WLS, so I haven't had to worry about it. I don't know why its better (one guess is the gas used in surgery migrated and helped stretch the joint so it wasn't pinching my tear - happened when I had my MRI with contrast, too. Other guess is that resting it for about 3 months - the 6 weeks to recover from surgery and 6 weeks recovering from a broken foot - helped).

So, no direct experience, but I know both my surgeons said that after about 6+ weeks from WLS, I'd be healed from that and OK for shoulder surgery.

Good luck!

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3 hours ago, notmyname said:

My labrum in my right shoulder was torn half way around and I was looking at surgery to fix it. In fact, that's one of the reasons I had WLS - I felt like I was too big to take care of some things left handed after my shoulder surgery. Both my sleeve surgeon and my shoulder surgeon were 100% comfortable with my having shoulder surgery around 6+ weeks after WLS. Luckily, somehow my shoulder has been feeling much better since WLS, so I haven't had to worry about it. I don't know why its better (one guess is the gas used in surgery migrated and helped stretch the joint so it wasn't pinching my tear - happened when I had my MRI with contrast, too. Other guess is that resting it for about 3 months - the 6 weeks to recover from surgery and 6 weeks recovering from a broken foot - helped).

So, no direct experience, but I know both my surgeons said that after about 6+ weeks from WLS, I'd be healed from that and OK for shoulder surgery.

Good luck!

Thank you for that post. So happy you were able to avoid shoulder surgery and comforted by the fact that your surgeons also said 6 weeks to recover was enough to have another surgery. So sorry about the broken foot and glad to hear its healed. Keep me posted if any thing changes on your shoulder and wishing you good luck as well. :)

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