Hi All,

I was banded on 11/14! yippy almost a week ago. I have begun mushies, however my chest hurts when I have to breath in deep - no slimy, no other pain. Is this a sign of something?

I also just fond out my father has cancer and not sure it has something to do with that.

Thanks for your thoughts!

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Stress can definitely make us react with the band. But you are likely also dealing with residual gas pain. Use your little breathing device they should have given you after surgery --the incentive spirometer. If you didn't get one, try to take several deep, steady (not sudden fast inhales) breaths every hour. Slowly try to increase the depth of the breath. If it does not get any easier, or if you begin to cough, or run a fever, contact your Dr. ASAP.

It could also be too soon for you to be eating mushies, you may want to try at least a few more days of liquids, it may be too much weight on your stomach this early.

Good Luck, I hope you feel better soon, and I hope your Dad gets good news concerning his cancer....it CAN be beat...I am living proof!

Kat

I had the exact same thing took about a week to go away...you'll be fine soon stick in

Stress can definitely make us react with the band. But you are likely also dealing with residual gas pain. Use your little breathing device they should have given you after surgery --the incentive spirometer. If you didn't get one, try to take several deep, steady (not sudden fast inhales) breaths every hour. Slowly try to increase the depth of the breath. If it does not get any easier, or if you begin to cough, or run a fever, contact your Dr. ASAP.

It could also be too soon for you to be eating mushies, you may want to try at least a few more days of liquids, it may be too much weight on your stomach this early.

Good Luck, I hope you feel better soon, and I hope your Dad gets good news concerning his cancer....it CAN be beat...I am living proof!

Kat

Thanks! You have no idea what your comment means to me!

Amy--having been through both, let me know if you need to talk--shoot me a PM. Hang in there. ((((Big hugs)))

Kat

I had the exact same thing took about a week to go away...you'll be fine soon stick in

Thanks for letting me know its normal! I was wondering what I did!?

Amy--having been through both, let me know if you need to talk--shoot me a PM. Hang in there. ((((Big hugs)))

Kat

Thank you so very much! I will more then likley take you up on that! I feel as if I have already put my new "me" aside and it hasent even been a week! I cant focus!

I know how you feel. My mother was diagnosed Feb.14, 2005 with non hodkins lymnphona, stage 3, no hope. She's been in remission for over a year now. It is beatable. But, I like you had severe pain that put me in the floor crying last sat. morn, am. I was screaming, kicking, crying. I had my husband rush me to the er. I was having left side lower back and front side lower left. When I got there they took a urine sample and I told them Mom had cancer and I was probably eat up. I had a cat scan and as soon as it was done I ask the person giving it, it's cancer isn't it. She said well, I don't know what all that stuff is in your stomach, it looks like tubes and a port for chemo. I laughed and then told her about my band. She said no, its not cancer it's kidney stones. So they kept me knocked out with Morphine and deladin and now I'm better. It's just crazy how when you have a family member with cancer you think every pain is cancer. Hope your feeling better soon.

Same thing happened to me. I even went back to the Docs office. He chewed me out for eating Tuna and said I was fine. Still some gas I guess!