Sleeved 5/16 and was having back pain and ended up having a hard time breathing = 5 days back in the hospital. It turns out my back pain wasn't my hiatal hernia, it's my spleen. (liver was slightly swollen, white cell count and liver enzymes were high but normal now)

The dr said sometimes the stomach shares a blood supply with a small portion of the spleen and stapling off the stomach cuts the blood supply to that part of the spleen as well; the spleen will scar and shrink down at that part, the rest works and not a big deal.

Has anyone else gone through this or even heard of this???

so random.....But yes I had this! I just had surgery on July 30th and I did experience this. weird. Actually 10 percent of my spleen was already dead so the surgery caused me to lose 10 percent more which the Dr. said would not cause a problem in the future. Just the back and shoulder pain.

Happy it's not horrible enough to remove (: my pain only lasted about a week, hope. Yours goes away just as fast!

My spleen was "glued" to my stomach and the Dr had to separate them before he could cut the stomach. No additional complications just a lot of Bach pain for awhile....

So thankful to find this post! I was told that this had happened to me as well. The doc was so "matter of fact" about it I didn't know what to say!