Saturday I went swimming and felt fine. When I got out I was getting dressed and when I bent over I felt this awful pulling/ripping feeling on the left side of my abdomen. My stitch that was causing left side pain already went away a week ago. This is new.

So, Sunday it bothered me all day. If I twisted wrong, sat wrong, stood wrong etc. called the on call doctor and he said the take pain meds and call back in the am if it wasn't better.

So, this morning I called. The PA said that it could be a pulled muscle. Use the heating pad for a few days and if its not better or if it hurts just sitting there to call back and we will do some imaging.

I'm scared to death. Could this be a leak?

Pain under left breast about 4 inches down and about 4 inches above the left incision.

Will be 4 weeks out this Wednesday. I've followed the diet plan.

I am doing much better, used Miralax and pain is going away. Didn't realize I was that constipated, honestly have never been constipated before...So glad to be in less pain! Thank you all for your advice and suggestions, I really appreciate it!

My baby had a really bad leak after his bowel resection(he was 30 days old when the leak happened, 25 days old during the first surgery). They knew to do an x-ray to check for a leak because he all of the sudden started running a fever, his heart rate was all of the sudden elevated, his tummy was no longer soft, and his blood pressure was really low. So most likely you would have a lot more symptoms if it were a leak. I hope you feel better soon.