I had a panic attack earlier today and am still in pain. This is the second I've had since being sleeved back in august. The first was when I woke up from the anesthesia in the operating room after being sleeve and I was put on the pain med drip and that took care of it. Today I was in a store shopping and it hit me, the pain toned down a lot after about an hour. But now it's back again, feels like somebody is stabbing me right under my rib cage and hurts in the back to. I was just wondering if anybody else has had these kind of issues with panic attacks since being sleeved. I don't think that the pain has anything to do with not taking an acid blocker because I have not taken an acid blocker in over 4 months now. I tried to call my doctors nurse today but all I got was voicemail, any suggestions?

wish I had advice for you but hope you feel better soon!

Hi BonBon -- I still take an acid blocker (PPI) and I'm almost 4 months out -- my dr. said up to 6 months -- now, everyone's dr. is different, but it can't hurt to take a PPI and see what happens. That said, pain should not be there -- you do need to go to your dr. or your PCP -- they should have a operator service that will answer the phone and relay a message --

Let us know how you're doing, ok??

I had a panic attack earlier today and am still in pain. This is the second I've had since being sleeved back in august. The first was when I woke up from the anesthesia in the operating room after being sleeve and I was put on the pain med drip and that took care of it. Today I was in a store shopping and it hit me, the pain toned down a lot after about an hour. But now it's back again, feels like somebody is stabbing me right under my rib cage and hurts in the back to. I was just wondering if anybody else has had these kind of issues with panic attacks since being sleeved. I don't think that the pain has anything to do with not taking an acid blocker because I have not taken an acid blocker in over 4 months now. I tried to call my doctors nurse today but all I got was voicemail, any suggestions?

Do you still have your Gallbladder?

Well I still have a gallbladder for now anyway. I've been in the hospital since Wednesday night. They think a gall stone has caused a block in my digestive system, there going to put a scope down my throut tomorrow to see if it's there and get it out. Then sometime in to next few days my gall bladder is suppose to be taken out.

I don't think you are having a panic attack with physical pain. I have had 2 episodes of the stabbing pain and I think it was esophageal spasm. The first one happened after a coughing spell in the hospital and I had to be put back on a pain shot for the night. The second happened just this past week at work and lasted all day, just not as severe as the first one. I did almost go to urgent care for pain relief but I got home and laid down on a heating pad and that helped and it was gone when I woke up.

Gal bladder pain usually feels like some one is blowing up a very large balloon under your right rib cage and that you are going to burst!

I was wondering what makes you think it was a panic attack?

About 2 weeks after my surgery, I woke up at 4am with horrible abdominal pain that radiated to my right side and back. I found out a few days later that it was my gall bladder! After an ultrasound and blood work, I found out that my gall bladder was going bad, so to speak. I never had any problems with it before surgery and just all of a sudden, it went bad. Your problems sound similar to what I experienced.

I know that I am late posting this as the last post was in January 2011, but I am wondering if you had your gall bladder taken out and if it helped you at all. Mine came out 3 weeks ago and I feel sooooo much better!