why is it that when you over eat or whatever you feel it in your shoulder area? i never got a explanation for it.

someone told me its the band pressing on the diaphram thus pushing on a nerve that runs to the shoulder....

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:frown:Would that explain the pain I get in my shoulder when I exercise too? It felt like gas pains all over again. I actually had to stop running because of it.

Everything I've read suggests this is phrenic nerve pain and has to do with the band rubbing against the diaphragm. The pain in the shoulder is a referred pain.

I had mine for 6 months after surgery and then it went away. In the past month it's come back with a vengeance. Mine bothers me if I'm only slightly reclining to a full horizontal position. Sometimes I can relieve it by pulling my arm above my head, while lying down, and stretching my torso.

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yep- asked my doc a couple weeks ago... when we eat too much the pouch is too full, pushes the band into the diaphragm, causing the referral pain in the shoulder. it SUCKS.