Has anyone had sharp pains in their left rib cage area and/or a large sunken area on left side below left rib cage? This is pretty much the only issues I have had at 8 days Post Op. No nausea, no worries!! But I am very ready for mushy food stage!

Wow... I have that exact same pain. I thought I pulled a muscle or something. It was really killing me the other night so out of desperation I took two Zantac 75mg and half a hour later the pain was gone.

I dunno if my stomach acid pools in that area or if it's a backlog in my intestines or something.

It did work for me though.

Will

I had a sunken area on the left at the incision site where he pulls the stomach through. It is a deeper incision and there is a suture in there that will break later. It hurt for 2 weeks started to get better, then broke (sunken area was gone), hurt again, but started to finally get better. All gone by 3 weeks. Only bad part of the whole thing. I don't have any problems with any food now. Zero issues really, weight loss a little slow, but I need to start exercising more. Hope your FB season goes well, be carful in this heat!