Hi, has anyone experience left shoulder pain while running? It feels like the pain I would sometimes get when I eat too much...and I know that could hurt your band. I wonder if I can keep running without hurting something? Before the band, I would get pain in my left side sometimes when I started to run. Could if be the same kind of pain??

You need to get into your doctor and checked out. Don't assume everything that comes up or goes wrong is band related.

I am 10 months banded and about 2 - 9 months I got the left shoulder gas pain during a big workout spinning, running etc Now in month 10 it seems to happen less and less....... again this is just my experience

Are you still overweight....have a lot of excess skin, fat layers?

Although I tried, I could not handle running untill I dropped about 80 pounds, and a lot of the sagging skin......the pounding I took was unbearable....

Running is one of the exercises that will work the entire body from head to toe...including every joint.

When I run my band tightens up a lot. It could be you getting tighter when you exercise.

Thanks for your input everyone! Got on the cross-trainer today for 40 minutes - no pain! Maybe I just overdid it trying yo run.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Referred_pain is something that bandsters often live with.

hi, i had my pre surgery consult with dr yesterday. i asked him about this type pain as i've read others talk about it. he said a few of his patients have mentioned it in conjunction with over eating. he'd not heard them complain of it in exercise and not as a chronic ongoing pain. i was relieved to hear that, walking, swimming and hiking have become a part of my life and if the band would bring pain to these activities i'd have to seriously reconsider my decision to move forward with surgery.

is this becoming a chronic thing or only occasional?

I do all of the things you've mentioned and only have shoulder pain from preexisting issues. I have experienced the same shoulder pain in relation to eating or being hungry, and once when I was running up Mt. Kilington at a recent Spartan Championship- but it soon went away with some water and stretching. Learning some stretches to help is good, but sometimes it is nerve pain from your stomach appearing in your shoulder.