I'm three days out of surgery and very few complications, except one big one. My shoulder is driving me crazy. I walk around as suggested, try a little pillow rocking, all that, and nothing. During the day I'm taking Tylenol since I don't want to be groggy all the time, but look forward to the end of the day when the hydro carries me away on the wings of loopy dreams. But I want to figure out some sort of relief besides drugs. Any suggestions?

I am four days out, and I am not in pain in any of my incision areas, but man oh man, My shoulder is killing me!!! I swear there are times it feels like I am being stabbed in the shoulder!! I tried the heating pad, waking, gas-x, nothing is working, I hope you get an answer soon!!

Hi there, i totally understand your shoulder problem as i had the same thing really bad too and i hate to break it to you but i still suffer with it every now and then and my op was 8months ago. My suggestion is though a heat pack worked wonders for me just prop it up behind your shoulder and try to realax as much as possible.

I am 5 days post op and found that gas-x chewables were a huge help with shoulder and chest pain/fullness.

I'm 9 months post op and I used to get BAD BAD BAD shoulder pains. Now I still get them, not as bad, when I sit for longer than an hour. SOOOO weird...