Hello All,

Just checking in! So, today I am 5 weeks post-op and for the most part I am doing really well. I'm now getting in all of my Protein and some. Yay me!!! As to in the beginning I wasn't getting any. Still not doing to hot with the Vitamins though.

I have noticed lately I have this pain in mt left side just above and under my scare whenever I bend over, lay, or turn the wrong way. When I rub it I can feel a knot in there, something I will have to talk to my surgeon about when I go back.

I kicked in a little more time with my work out this week and I think I need to go back to the 30 min day due to the pain right now. I was at a stall for 2 weeks (that was a bummer), so what I started doing last week was logging my food and weighing in once a week on Wednesday's. Got on the scale this morning and was down 4lbs. I was soooooo shocked because I don't feel as if I lost anything at all, my son's teacher asked me this morning was I losing weight and I had to ask her does it look like it? She said yes, I was stunned because I can't see it nor feel the difference. One thing for sure though, she really made my morning. She was the very first person to ask me if I was losing weight since I had surgery. No one else has said anything to me at all about it.

I will say I am LOVING MY SLEEVE!!!!

I'm so glad you posted this! I am at week 4 today. I have the exact same pain on my left side above my incision (like 4 inches above) and I have a knot. Please let me know what they tell you. It only bothers me when I bend, put in clothes and lift my leg to high etc

If the knot is small (pea-size) it may be an internal suture. They dissolve, but sometimes may take 2 months to heal completely. I had several that popped out through the skin and they felt like they were pulling.

If the knot is larger (dime-size or larger) it may be a surgical hematoma. This is a collection of blood in a sac near an incision. They usually resolve on their own, but should have your doctor check it out.