pain breathing in- 10 weeks post op

kizzie · August 31, 2008

Hey there. (posted this on the complications area too)

Could do with some 'advice' from the long time bandsters here.. or anyone with similar symptoms this long post op.

Had a 2ml fill 2 weeks ago..didn't really feel too much so doctor put 4mls last Friday.. feeling some restriction but not too much.

Last night after dinner.. (small dinner.. had thrown up lunch.. didn't chew properly and down it went. and back up it came!!.. so PB I guess rather than vomiting.. ).. I started to get pain under my rib cage.. not quite on my port area but literally near the bottom of the rib cage where they meet in the middle.. and only painful when I breathe in. It is more painful when I am sitting down and breathing in (shallow breathing is fine so far.. slightly deeper is painful). if I walk I can still feel some pain but not as much.. I took some ibuprofen last night and my sleeping pill. (have had terrible insomnia post op).. and slept well.. woke with very little pain until I started moving again.

Could it be bruising from adding more fill??..

any ideas??...

thank you

Kizzie.. (I will contact my surgeon tomorrow. poor guy hasn't had anyone with as many complications as I have had!!!)

kizzie · August 31, 2008

Thanks Jack!

I had a rib 'pop' out a few years ago under my shoulder blade.. the pain was in my clavical and shoulder joint and not under the scapula. I had an adjustment and it was 'popped' back into place and the pain relief was instant!. I had suffered TWO YEARS!!!.. .. so I guess I am prone to that kind of injury...

didn't think about it being a rib!!... all this "band' stuff makes me forget it could be something else. It is uncomfortable in my back (directly behind the pain in the front).. the pain in the front is a bruised feeling when breathing in!.. and sharp in my back..

thanks again for your expert advice!..